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Maybe George Lucas ought to get out more. For the past three years, as he ruled his multimedia empire from the palatial redoubt of Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, Calif., Lucas has dwelt in the lovely dream that his 1999 Star Wars movie, Episode I--The Phantom Menace, was universally loved. Lately, though, inquiring journalists have slapped him awake. "I'm getting my education now from the press," he says. "They come in and say, 'Wow. People hated your movie. What do you think about that...
...raised Methodist. Now let's say I'm spiritual. It's Marin County. We're all Buddhists up here...
...February, Hyperion plans to publish a book that will make women wince: "Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor" by Rick Marin, a former senior writer at Newsweek and former reporter for the New York Times Sunday Styles section. According to his publisher, "After a doomed marriage dissolves into divorce, journalist Rick Marin goes from devoted husband to serial dater, and embarks on a sort of rampage, dating and sleeping his way through the ranks of New York's women. Marin's behavior becomes increasingly ungentlemanlike - in fact, he becomes something of a cad. In this finely written, wildly entertaining...
...raised Methodist. Now let's say I'm spiritual. It's Marin County. We're all Buddhists up here...
Since Sept. 11, no criticism of the CIA has been more damning than the fact that the agency's legions of highly trained spooks were less successful at infiltrating al-Qaeda than was a Marin County, Calif., 19-year-old named John Walker Lindh. "They didn't see it; they didn't analyze it; they didn't locate it or disrupt it," says a U.S. official."It's just that simple." In Senate hearings last month, CIA Director George Tenet, a Clinton Administration holdover who managed to hold on to his job after 9/11 because he is close to Bush...