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...last time the Bush family hosted a Mexican president at a White House state dinner, an international incident was narrowly avoided. Former first lady Barbara Bush picks up the story from her memoir: "We almost had a real crisis during the dinner for the new president of Mexico, Carlos Salinas. The pastry chef had described the dessert on the menu as 'Mexican Fantasy.' Just as the platters were leaving the kitchen to make a dramatic entrance into the State Dining Room, Laurie Firestone, George's social secretary, noticed that the chef had constructed an adobe house out of edible sweets...
...July of 1938, Welles was already a radio veteran, and a kind of star. His supple, authoritative baritone virtually destined him to some higher form of public speaking. "With a vocal instrument of abnormal resonance and flexibility," writes Houseman in his autobiography "Run-Through," which is largely a memoir of the Mercury days, "he was capable of expressing an almost unlimited range of moods and emotions." (When, I won-der, did young Orson?s voice change? And was that the moment when he knew he?d be an actor?) Welles on radio was Homer or Aesop at a campfire, weaving...
...hired when the series was airing a piece on the newly-born Dionne quintuplets - Welles played all five babies. He impersonated kings and plutocrats, all the newsmakers of the period. And one new newsmaker. As he recalled for Peter Bogdanovich in "This Is Orson Welles," a kind of oral memoir: "One day they did as a news item on ?March of Time? the opening of my production of the black ?Macbeth,? and I played myself in it. And that to me was the apotheosis of my career - that I was on ?March of Time? acting AND as a news item...
...with his. Just like Dad, Maureen tried her hand early on at TV and film (bit parts on The Partridge Family and in the Elvis Presley film Kissin' Cousins), then at politics (unsuccessful bids for Senate and House seats in California in 1982 and 1992) and at writing (a memoir, First Father, First Daughter, published in 1989). In 1981, she married her third husband Dennis Revell, a Sacramento lobbyist, and in 1994, adopted a daughter Rita, now 16, Ugandan by birth. In the 1990s, after her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and despite her own cancer, she began...
...began to give her pain rather than pleasure in "The Camera My Mother Gave Me" (Knopf; October 10). PW replies, Who cares? "Thin, disappointing...FORECAST: Already the subject of a NYT piece suggesting this ?autopathography? may become the target of a backlash against such transgressive confessions, Kaysen?s slight memoir will spark some controversy, but don?t expect ?Girl, Interrupted?-level sales." Kirkus is more entertained. "Pithy, funny, adventurous, sexy, and eye-opening...Disguised as plain, brown memoir, a voluptuous exploration of sexuality, aging, the failures of modern medicine, attempts at self-knowledge, and the meaning of pain." The book...