Word: mortons
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...Wales. Last week it reached its apogee with the publication in the Sunday Times of excerpts from a forthcoming book alleging that the prince had all but deserted his wife and that the despairing princess had tried to kill herself. Diana: Her True Story, by royals watcher Andrew Morton, is big business. The Sunday Times paid $462,500 for its excerpts...
Never mind that the most sensational parts are among the oldest information. Morton makes much of Diana's bulimia, usually a disease of young girls who follow binge eating with self-induced vomiting in order to stay slender. But Diana's painfully thin phase goes back to the early '80s, after Prince William's birth. Some of the material sounds farfetched, including an account of her throwing herself down a flight of steps in view of the Queen Mother...
What was more shocking was that the Princess of Wales tolerated the cooperation of several intimates and friends with Morton's project. This is virtually unheard of. Anyone with a real royal connection never speaks to reporters, simply because doing so means instant and permanent ostracism at court. But Diana's late father Earl Spencer, always appealingly proud of his little girl and avid for personal attention, contributed dozens of unpublished pictures. Her brother and a sister apparently spoke to Morton, as did an ex- roommate, Carolyn Bartholomew, and a couple of her buddies. Buckingham Palace at once snapped that...
Grey calls those who treat Wood with benign contempt "jackals of bourgeois sensibility." And he's right. As critic Jim Morton notes, "If there is a 'worst film ever made,' it is one that is boring -- a sin Ed Wood Jr. is rarely guilty of." But there is a more melancholy irony to be found in Grey's interviews with the director's colleagues. Unlike most trashmeisters, Wood had radical messages for his audience: about sexual tolerance (Glen or Glenda), nuclear madness (Plan 9), parental smugness (The Sinister Urge). He was as dedicated to filmmaking as Welles or Kurosawa...
...MORTON MEYERSON, 53, WAS PEROT'S ALTER EGO AT EDS, the man who helped put the founder's ambitions into practice and stayed on top of the details. He started in 1965 as a trainee and left the company 21 years later as its vice chairman with more than $20 million from the buyout. Since then, Meyerson has invested his time in civic projects. He headed the group that sold the Federal Government on building the controversial $8.4 billion supercollider in Texas. He spearheaded the construction of the new symphony hall in Dallas, which is named after Meyerson because Perot...