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NAME: Jeffrey ("Boob") Toobin OCCUPATION: scandal chronicler BEST PUNCH: In A Vast Conspiracy, his new book about the Lewinsky affair, Toobin writes that Goldberg once bragged about sleeping with President Lyndon Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 24, 2000 | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

NAME: TOM ("RIGHT STUFF") WOLFE OCCUPATION: Writer who may wear crochet BEST PUNCH: "Why does he sputter and foam so? Because he, like Updike and Mailer, has panicked. All three have seen the handwriting on the wall, and it reads, A Man in Full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 1, 2000 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...plastic-surgery debate is over: if three hours under the knife can transform LINDA TRIPP into a Rene Russo doppelganger, rhinoplasty should be covered by universal health care. According to the National Enquirer, Tripp, tired of being a national punch line, visited Beverly Hills, Calif., surgeon Geoffrey Keyes, who resculpted her nose, removed the bags from under her eyes and sucked fat from her neck, chin and other parts. "It's amazing," marveled Lucianne Goldberg to the New York Post. "It looks like she's had a head transplant." Almost. Meanwhile, Tripp dyed her hair and shed 40 lbs. through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 1, 2000 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

NAME: JOHN ("MEANY") IRVING OCCUPATION: Crotchety writer BEST PUNCH: "I can't read him because he's such a bad writer... If I were teaching f___ing freshman English, I couldn't read [a Wolfe] sentence and not just carve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 1, 2000 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

GEORGE STEINBRENNER AND BILLY MARTIN Best punch: the five times Steinbrenner fired Martin

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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