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...support struggling authors. Last week, as part of his affable banter, host REGIS PHILBIN asked contestant BRAD HERZOG, a freelance magazine writer, about his book States of Mind, an American travelogue released last year by a small North Carolina publisher. "I didn't go on the show to plug my book," says Herzog, who won $64,000, "but I was happy to tell 30 million viewers." Before the show aired, the book ranked No. 122,040 in sales on Amazon.com the following day, it rocketed as high as No. 7. "I got up into the world of John Irving...
...National Assembly seat 18. Attacks suddenly 19. Paul's Exodus role 20. Sign of summer 21. American Beauty Oscar winner 24. Phi Beta Kappa concern: Abbr. 26. Reform Party chairman Choate 27. Actuary's concern 28. It may be floated 29. NBC has pulled the plug on __, the Devil, and Bob 30. A newspaper here ended a 20-year taboo by printing the U.S. flag 31. Torah holder 32. Reagan was its pres. 33. Nixon, for two yrs. 34. Scientists have found a gene that regulates this 36. Azores' loc. 38. Source of high-protein flour 39. Split apart...
...especially when it comes to love. As East Is East opens, one of his sons is bolting an arranged marriage, bringing shame on George, who did not happen to notice that the boy was gay. George's attempt to marry two more of his kids to a pair of plug-ugly sisters comes to similar grief...
...every other way, though, Get Happy is an exemplary attempt to answer the unanswerable question: Why could she never plug the jagged hole in her heart? Much of her appeal lies in our inability to explain away her bottomless neediness. "You can write down everything Lana Turner ever thought and felt and meant, and then put the pencil down," claimed Garland amour Joe Mankiewicz (the director and screenwriter of All About Eve). "That's it, a closed book. But I don't think anybody's going to close the book on Judy Garland." Not even Gerald Clarke--but he comes...
...technology, enabling it to take off and land like a helicopter but fly like a plane - is worth its hefty price tag. But with the unwavering support of congressional delegates from two powerful states (Pennsylvania, where Boeing's helicopter division is based, and Texas, home of Bell Textron) the plug is unlikely to be pulled anytime soon...