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...Kennedy, Johnson may have threatened to disclose J.F.K.'s dirty laundry, though Hersh doesn't know which laundry or even whether Johnson had anything on Kennedy at all. His main source? The late Hyman Raskin, a little-known Chicago lawyer and Democratic political operative. In interviews and an unpublished memoir, Raskin says that Kennedy had settled on Missouri Senator Stuart Symington as his running mate until Johnson and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn pulled him into that mysterious meeting...
...each month produced a savvy, pungent report for Vanity Fair. Appearing endlessly on TV, he became an O.J. celebrity himself. Now, trailing even Simpson's niece, Dunne has finally produced his own O.J. book, Another City, Not My Own. Coyly subtitled A Novel in the Form of a Memoir, it is an almost entirely factual account of Dunne's experience covering the trial...
...consensual sex as an adult with your dad and Act II is making a meal of your grandmother's ashes, then we're sticking around through intermission. KATHRYN HARRISON, author of the incest memoir The Kiss, read her latest confession at the ninth annual PEN/Faulkner dinner in Washington to a crowd of squeamish guests that included William Rehnquist and Amy Tan. In her piece, Harrison announced that she had first stuck her finger into the urn that contained her grandmother's brownish, bone-studded ashes, licked it and then decided to go back for a full, five-fingered snack...
Nearer, My God (Doubleday; 313 pages; $24.95) is less a formal "autobiography of faith," as the subtitle has it, than a pastiche: part memoir, part commentary on religious issues past and present. No theologian by his own admission, Buckley has relied on others to do that heavy hitting. He submitted questions about the ordination of women, for example, to a "forum" of four Catholic converts, two of them priests, and prints their answers at length. On a more theoretical problem--how hell and eternal punishment are compatible with God's mercy--he cribs copiously from Difficulties (1934), an exchange...
...very title is mystifying. It seems to belong on a memoir by a minor, faintly boring old poet. It perches rather uneasily atop a story in which Robert, a sweet, dim maintenance man (a woofly Ewan McGregor), replaced by a robot, decides to revenge himself on his rich, cruel boss (Ian Holm) by kidnapping the boss's daughter Celine (a sleek Cameron Diaz). She, naturally, turns out to be spoiled, smart, willful and eager to collaborate in ripping off Daddy...