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Some survivors transform themselves from victims to activists. Until Patti and Kelvin Barton of Everett, Wash., lobbied their state legislature three years ago to enact a new law, it was almost impossible for anyone to bring civil charges of childhood sexual abuse after the victim turned 21. Because many incest survivors, like Patti, do not even realize their childhood experiences until they are well into adulthood, they had few legal options against their abusers. The Washington law now allows people three years to bring suit after the discovery of either the abuse or the injury it caused. A dozen other...
...most successful by far is the Leisure Suit Larry series, expected to take in $20 million to $25 million at retail this year. Larry, a bumbling nerd of a hero, bounces from one sexual escapade to another with well-endowed females bearing names like Tawni, Bambi and Passionate Patti. The sex itself, however, happens under blankets or behind CENSORED signs...
...repelled others. A third group could not get enough backstairs gossip, and its members are the target audience for A House of Secrets (Birch Lane; 237 pages; $18.95). The novel has two things to recommend it: a plausible first-person tone of wounded innocence, and an author named Patti Davis -- better known as the daughter of Nancy D. Reagan. The narrator is one Carla Lawton, who grows up in California with few friends and one opponent: her mother. Rachel Lawton lies compulsively and attempts to control every aspect of her child's life. She makes toilet training a battleground, then...
...night in her apartment. "They call it date rape today," the actress is quoted as saying. When Reagan married Nancy in 1952, it was only after his proposal to another actress, Christine Larson, had been rejected. On the day Nancy was in the hospital giving birth to daughter Patti, Kelley says, Reagan was at Christine's, sobbing that his life was ruined. In perhaps the book's most sensational allegation, Kelley asserts that Nancy had an extramarital fling of her own: with Frank Sinatra, who used to come up to the White House for private "lunches" -- winkingly placed in quotes...
Other nominees in the rock vocalist Alannah Myles, Stevie Nicks and Tina Turner. Also receiving nominations in the R&B category were Anita Baker, Pebbles, Patti LaBelle and Regina Belle...