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...Child, N’Sync, Britney Spears, and countless other artists have gushed about him as both an idol and role model. Nor have the people forgotten him: Restless grumbling was the order of the day at the recent Madison Square Garden concerts despite the performance/presence of a pantheon of musical and cinematic superstars. Only one performer could bring the masses to the heights of screaming frenzy—Michael Jackson. Further success appears to await him in the wings; one Associated Press headline about the event read: “Michael Jackson Erases All Doubts.” More...
Kati Marton's Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History (Pantheon Books; 414 pages; $25), provides a deft survey of a dozen First Couples, from Edith and Woodrow Wilson to Laura and George Bush. Marton mixes some good history with a lot of pop marriage psychology to show the part that patience, tolerance, insight, determination, sex and occasionally even love have played in the pursuit and exercise of presidential power. Without the ladies, she argues, many of the men for whom Hail to the Chief has been played probably would have ended up as peanut merchants, obscure lawyers...
...standard, and his wife Frida Kahlo, not a great painter by any reasonable judgment, but a tough and gifted woman who, owing to her hagiographic suffering (not to mention being ardently collected by the likes of Madonna), has become Exhibit A, by now somewhere above Artemisia Gentileschi in the pantheon of feminist art-saints. The live Colombian is probably the richest artist alive, the unbearably repetitious and banal Fernando Botero, 69, who has made millions, millions and millions of dollars painting and sculpting mountainously fat people over and over and over again. These sleek, bloated lumps of cellulite have...
...WIFE OF THE PARTY: PW damns by faint (or no) praise "Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History" by journalist Kati Marton, wife of Richard Holbrooke, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton administration (Pantheon; September 21). "Predictable...banal...Marton has delivered crisply written political gossip - those who want buzz will flock to it; those looking for serious history will turn elsewhere. FORECAST: Despite its light quality, or perhaps because of it, this will be talked about everywhere, aided by a 13-city author tour, appearances on 20/20, Charlie Rose and other national media. Its first...
...also paraded his protean vocal talents on the drama-tized news show "The March of Time." (TIME magazine, which produced the program, put Welles on its cover the week of his 23rd birthday, predicting he would be no "flash in the Pantheon." The year before, Clare Boothe, soon to marry TIME?s boss Henry Luce, had put up crucial backing for the Mercury?s production of "Julius Caesar.") The story goes that he was hired when the series was airing a piece on the newly-born Dionne quintuplets - Welles played all five babies. He impersonated kings and plutocrats...