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Whoopi Goldberg has something to help her forget Theodore Rex, her new straight-to-video movie. She has agreed, for a rumored $6 million, to put her thoughts to paper. More musings than memoir, the unnamed work shouldn't upset those, like Ted Danson, who have made whoopee with the author in the past...
...much hyped new memoir, Drinking: A Love Story, 37-year-old journalist Caroline Knapp unravels her tumultuous past life as a "high-functioning" alcoholic. The term is one she borrows from A.A. parlance, and it refers to the sort of boozer who lives well above the gutter, getting good grades at fine colleges, meeting deadlines, summering on Martha's Vineyard. Like most writers and filmmakers who have chronicled the middle-class drinking life, Knapp writes from the prevailing modern perspective that alcoholism is another challenge to be surmounted, a demon to be confronted, a battle...
Knauer took a shine to her unmarried but very eligible deputy, and in the spring of 1972 arranged for Elizabeth to meet a certain recently divorced Senator from Kansas. In her memoir, Mrs. Dole remarks that she found the Senator "awfully attractive" but he didn't call her and she wouldn't call him. She ran into Dole again at the 1972 Republican Convention, and this time he did call. Their romance progressed with all the speed of an omnibus budget resolution wending its way through committee, and they were married in 1975. Elizabeth finally had her trophy husband...
Although most people are preoccupied with just one of her paramours, the twice-married MIA FARROW will cover them all in her memoir. And for sheer eccentricity, even Woody Allen has nothing on Farrow's buddy when she was 17: Salvador Dali. Farrow told a booksellers convention, "We lunched on butterfly wings and toured New York City with garbage collectors. He judged sex to be too violent--and showers too." No fool, she also teased them with the prospect of dirty laundry, saying Allen had no respect for what she held sacred. "Not for my family, not for my soul...
First, however, Chopra had to take some steps of his own. A dark anecdote in his 1988 memoir, Return of the Rishi, foreshadows some of his later concerns. Chopra's father, a successful British-trained cardiologist, was in England when he learned that his own father was taking Ayurvedic medicine, the traditional Indian herbal cure, for a heart condition. The doctor disapproved. "His success in the system demanded his belief in the system," Chopra writes, and from London he "demanded that my grandfather abandon this nonsense and call in a Western-style heart specialist." The old man did, "and died...