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...Ronald Reagan, who was reportedly paid $7 million for his memoirs. For class, Simon & Schuster plucked Philip Roth away from his prestige publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Although only about 10% of Simon & Schuster's revenues come from trade publishing, that is where the glitz lies. Says top literary agent Morton Janklow: "Trade publishing is like couture in fashion. Saint Laurent loses money on couture, but that's what allows him to make millions from his perfumes." With Snyder in charge, Simon & Schuster became the flashiest couture house of them...
...meticulously detailed expense reports prepared by any Congress member. Certainly he had no need for the relatively piddling sums said to be involved. His power over taxes made lobbyists eager to curry his favor, and he gladly -- and legally -- let them pick up the tab for steak dinners at Morton's in Washington and golf games all over the world. Reports put his holdings of stocks, real estate and other assets at anywhere between $700,000 and $2.3 million. Longtime political observers note, though, that urban-machine politicians -- and at least some members of Congress -- long regarded the paying...
...Struggling filmmakers, meanwhile, can meet, and perhaps impress, Hollywood decision makers without a bossy secretary blocking the way. "The festival gives people access to Hollywood who wouldn't otherwise have it," says Tom Rothman, president of worldwide production for Goldwyn. "Here you don't need a reservation at Morton's." Observes Ira Deutchman, president of Fine Line Features: "As irritating as it is to have the place swarming with Hollywood folks, I can't see how that's a negative. Without them, Sundance would be a marginalized event...
...MORTON HALPERIN, former director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union, withdrew his name from consideration for a top Pentagon job last week. Attacks from conservatives on the Senate Armed Services Committee were the reason for his decision. But Halperin may still work in the Administration, White House sources say. If he is proposed for a job at the State Department, the more congenial Senate Foreign Relations Committee might well approve, so a position there is one possibility. Another is a post at the National Security Council, which would not require Senate confirmation...
...about the right of a state to have an organized militia, in order to protect the states from being completely overrun by the Federal Government," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. In the early 1980s, when gun owners brought a court challenge to the handgun ban adopted in Morton Grove, Illinois, lower courts rejected its argument. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The ban stands...