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The further Hollywood history: In 1988, Chase-Riboud finished a draft of her novel about the Amistad, which was sent by her pal, Jacqueline Onassis, to Amblin, Spielberg's production company. Executives read the book and made nice noises but ended up passing on it. So one can imagine Chase...
For example, the reader is advised on January 2 to come on to a feminist, but if "she smacks you, tell her you were just kidding, you don't really like the way she fills out her sweater," yet the contemplation for September 29, regarding competitiveness in fatherhood, is "guys...
Diana, by dying early, will eternally be thought of by many as young and beautiful. While she will never see her sons marry, she will also not have to see another Princess of Wales take her place. Nor will she face the outrage people felt when Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle...
Paparazzi--the celebrity photographers who trail stars looking for shots of them in unguarded moments--have been around for decades, dogging the tracks of people like Elizabeth Taylor and Jacqueline Onassis. But the game has grown increasingly fierce in recent years, as media outlets devoted to celebrities have proliferated, and...
Such self-policing is unlikely to satisfy the paparazzi's sharpest critics. California legislators like Tom Hayden are planning to introduce legislation to curb paparazzi exploits, such as requiring photographers to maintain a certain distance from their subjects. Such laws, however, might have a tough time passing constitutional muster because...