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...investigators have been working to find outside corroboration for every possible aspect of her story. Since Lewinsky told Tripp that she'd bought certain gifts for Clinton, Starr issued a subpoena in March to a Washington bookstore; its sales records show that Lewinsky purchased a copy of Vox, Nicholson Baker's postmodern novel about yuppie phone sex. To Starr the move was routine evidence gathering, the authentication of a small detail in Lewinsky's story. But the subpoena caused an uproar among booksellers and free-speech groups. Author Baker charged that Starr was "undermining the Constitution" and demanded that...
...NICHOLSON BAKER His novel Vox appears in a Starr subpoena. So there is a future in being a literary mid-list writer...
...Kramerbooks & Afterwords, a Washington bookstore, is going to court to fight a subpoena issued by Starr for records of books Lewinsky purchased there -- which, the Washington Post says, include Nicholson Baker?s steamy classic, ?Vox.? Starr is well within his rights, but the first whiff of a First Amendment battle is likely to erode what little public support the prosecutor still has. ?Ken Starr seems to give little heed to the basic right of all Americans to read what they want, free from government surveillance,? says Steven Shapiro, legal director of the ACLU. It?s a powerful argument -- and with...
...other big winner was "As Good As It Gets," whose unlikely romantic coupling of Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson got a lock on best actor and actress. "Good Will Hunting" picked up some well-deserved gongs: best supporting actor for Robin Williams, a long overdue first win, and best screenplay for Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, the freshest faces in town. The biggest loser? It had to be the Awards' director, who, despite draconian efforts to keep speeches to a minimum, watched in agony as the ceremony overran by an hour. Some might say precisely the same of "Titanic...
Here the race is a deadlock between Robert Duvall's preacher from The Apostle and Peter Fonda's beekeeper from Ulee's Gold. Jack Nicholson (As Good As It Gets) and Dustin Hoffman (Wag the Dog) have already gotten more than their fair share of Oscars in the past; Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting) is too new to the game...