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They'll need to be alert as well. Hanky-panky aside, Scandalmongers is a devilishly constructed entertainment about political warfare, legal brinkmanship and assassination by quill pen. The cast includes Aaron Burr and such FFs as Thomas Jefferson and Jameses Monroe and Madison. But the sharpest focus is on two churlish characters from early American journalism...
...winner, DIANE SAWYER (seen, at left, being congratulated by then Governor George Wallace). We've unearthed Diane's application, which clearly shows that her capacity for hard work took root early. Cheerleader, basketball queen, yearbook editor, school-calendar girl and member of the Young Republicans, Pep, Latin, Quill and Scroll clubs, Diane also managed to enjoy tennis, water skiing, bowling and "when time permit[ted] knitting." Her talent presentation sounds equally ambitious: an "original monologue and song interpretation of Civil War Days entitled 'Five Score Years Ago.'" Alas, poor Diane's stated career ambition in diplomacy never panned out, forcing...
Male writers seem more comfortable in announcing their 50th birthday, in such books as Dave Barry Turns 50 (Crown); The Big Five-Oh! Facing, Fearing, and Fighting Fifty by Bill Geist (Quill) and The 50 Year Dash: The Feelings, Foibles and Fears of Being Half a Century Old, by Bob Greene (Doubleday). The books are all similar: a series of rat-a-tat gags about failing eyesight, flagging libido and fading memories. But contemporaries will relate...
...LONG AGO, HARRY Cohn, the legendary film mogul, found himself contemplating the minuscule grosses of some historical epic set in the 18th century and decreed that henceforth no picture emanating from his studio would feature men in wigs and knee breeches writing with quill pens...
Referring to the U.S. government as a "quill pen in the age of WordPerfect," Vice President Al Gore unveiled a plan with more than 800 recommendations on how to restructure it -- and theoretically save $108 billion over the next five years. Gore appeared on Late Show with David Letterman to soft-sell the scheme, at one point ridiculing the arthritic federal bureaucracy by strapping on safety goggles to smash a government-approved ashtray in the officially sanctioned...