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...refusing to disclose confidential sources to a federal grand jury investigating who revealed the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, the wife of former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson. Ironically, neither Cooper nor Miller actually outed Plame. That revelation was made almost two years ago by syndicated columnist Robert Novak commenting on Wilson's allegations that the Bush Administration, which had sent him to Niger to investigate claims of Iraq's attempt to buy weapons-grade uranium there, had ignored his finding that there was no credible evidence of such an attempt. Novak said "two senior Administration officials" had told...
...After Novak's revelation, TIME's Cooper co-authored an article on the magazine's website, saying "some government officials" had told him basically the same thing, and the piece went on to suggest potential misconduct by those officials, who were perhaps seeking to discredit Wilson...
...still standing by Abramoff last week, in a way. "I've known Jack for a long time," he said. "He's never approached me for anything improper. But we have led very different lives over the last 20 years." --With reporting by Greg Fulton and Greg Land/Atlanta and Viveca Novak/ Washington
...depends on who actually writes such autobiographies. Linda Bird Francke was signed up for the Ferraro story partly because of her success in working on the best-selling memoirs of Rosalynn Carter. The O'Neill project is in the hands of William Novak, who wrote Iacocca. "A publisher would pay a lot for Novak," says one agent. "In a business fraught with insecurity and fear, anything that reduces that fear increases in value...
...Scarlett up the stairs and then the camera had followed them into her bedroom to record the next half-hour. As it was, Vivien Leigh's next-morning smile remains one of the most graphically suggestive moments in the history of movies. Usually, directors were clumsier. In Picnic, Kim Novak and William Holden knelt beside the railroad tracks and kissed as a train thundered out of the tunnel. Elsewhere the censorship of the Hays office produced kisses that culminated in horses rearing, waves crashing, flames leaping. Or the camera would cut heavenward through sunlit trees...