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...dispute has long since turned personal for both men. Eisner's book relates how they grew up near each other on Manhattan's Park Avenue and rose through Hollywood's ranks together, with Eisner bringing in the decade-younger Katzenberg, first at Paramount, then at Disney. For two decades they worked in tandem, churning out blockbusters (Aladdin), star-making hits (Sister Act) and plenty of duds (Billy Bathgate). When Eisner wouldn't make Katzenberg his No. 2 after the death of president Frank Wells in a 1994 helicopter crash, the team went down as well...
...Null's popularity. Much of his health regimen is pretty sound stuff, a common-sense soup of exercise, herbalism, diet and more, all served up in an easy-to-understand style. What's more, Null does not seem motivated by profit. He leads a health-support group in Manhattan and charges nothing for enrollment, and despite fierce bidding for his manuscripts, he often chooses small publishers, and then may defer royalties to help make the project affordable. Null, says Bob Marty, producer of the PBS shows, is "a pretty generous...
Distractions, distractions. Everything in Diana Ross's midtown Manhattan apartment vies for your attention: a zebra-patterned couch, brightly colored Warhol portraits of Ross, a table full of black panther statuettes, a large gold Hindu figurine. One thing holds your focus: Ross herself. The 55-year-old Motown great looks fabulous--slim, smiling, sexy. She seems as breezily radiant as she ever was, flipping back her wavy black hair after every other sentence. One wonders why it took so long for the Oscar-nominated star of such big-screen films as Lady Sings the Blues (1972) and the TV movie...
...that youthful fame demands is this: that its recipients grow up too quickly or not at all. This thought slips into your mind as you enter Brandy's Manhattan hotel room...
This, if you're wondering, is a compliment. Since his time at TIME, Andersen has been a founding editor of Spy, the editor in chief of New York, a producer of network specials, a staff writer for the New Yorker. He knows the three points of the buzz compass--Manhattan, Hollywood and the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash.--as well as anyone. Or at least as well as anyone who has so keen an appreciation for the pomposities, vapidities and idiocies that constitute the murmur of our times. As his chief characters--a former journalist edging into sleazy television infotainment...