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While Moreno insists that Alysse is a character, others say the pseudonym is nothing more than a protection device, allowing Moreno to express her radical views under a shelter of anonymity not granted to other Law Record writers who broach controversial topics...
...made his mark, if not his name, in movies too. Sister Act, the Whoopi Goldberg comedy for which Rudnick wrote the original script, was last summer's boffo surprise. Other hands diluted the screenplay, which Rudnick eventually signed with the pseudonym Joseph Howard; but the movie grossed $140 million, so now, "although there is no Joseph Howard, his career is soaring." Rudnick's uncredited rewrite of The Addams Family ($115 million) is "the reason that movie was a hit," says Scott Rudin, who produced it and Sister Act and who hired Rudnick to write the sequel, Addams Family Values...
Right on the Money (Simon & Schuster; 255 pages; $20) is the 22nd novel about investment-banker-cum-detective John Putnam Thatcher written under the pseudonym Emma Lathen by Mary Jane Latsis, an economist, and Martha Henissart, an attorney. All the plots center on financial skulduggery, and almost invariably the villain is the least developed principal character, typically a faceless mid-level manager who shows unrecognized ingenuity in concocting a scam. The team's prose is always easy and mildly amusing. While offering less psychological insight than the average TV sitcom, it convincingly conveys the general corporate mindset and the nubby...
...striking was unveiled last January in a New York Times op-ed page piece. He debunks the headlined story that Iraqi invaders took Kuwaiti babies out of incubators to die. The star witness in a congressional investigation of this supposed episode was a teary 15-year-old using a pseudonym. She was, in fact, the daughter of Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S., and MacArthur implies that the whole episode was concocted by Kuwaiti officials and their public relations agency, Hill and Knowlton, then eagerly taken up by President Bush...
...orphan with many foster parents, and the usual Hollywood bustle commenced, with a new star and half a dozen new writers (including Carrie Fisher). In arbitration, the Writers Guild ruled that Rudnick was the only writer who deserved screen credit, but he declined the honor. "Joseph Howard" is the pseudonym for a committee...