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JILL NELSON FORMER WASHINGTON POST REPORTER AND AUTHOR OF A MEMOIR, VOLUNTEER SLAVERY...
...host of the crowded cocktail party that is his memoir, Gore Vidal is mostly on his best behavior. He seldom scandalizes his guests and rarely flings a martini into anyone's face. Courtly but gossipy, chummy but not overfamiliar, he proudly points out all the notables he has managed to attract to his soirae. Yet, while there is a good deal of pleasurable ogling to be had, Vidal's book is the sort of grand, teeming affair that leaves you feeling vaguely unsatisfied, as though you are not quite sure why he invited you in the first place...
Bradlee, who worked for the Post from 1968 to 1991, was executive editor of the paper during the Watergate scandal. He recently published a memoir entitled A Good Life, in which he his life as an undergraduate during World War II and his sensational career at the Post...
They've both posed for Playboy. They've both dated rock stars, and they both have tattoos. So perhaps it's inevitable that when ex-"super groupie" Pamela Des Barres' memoir I'm with the Band gets made into a movie, DREW BARRYMORE will be the one to play her. "I've known her half her life," says Des Barres. "We used to dance together in clubs when she was 13." In other words, Drew walks the walk. As for her recent penchant for baring her breasts publicly, including on late-night TV, Des Barres loves it. Says...
Books like this usually conclude on a note of hard-won triumph. But perhaps the most appealing thing about this spare, beautifully etched memoir is that after 40 years of thriving and surviving in New York City, Cantwell admits to no greater wisdom than she had when she first arrived. More comfortable as observer than confessor, she ends where she began--in another Village apartment. This one looks out on a brick-walled garden, and before going to sleep, she opens her bedroom window to get that old charge: the sound of Manhattan "buzzing...