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Have you looked at the best-seller list lately? I mean, it's like browsing through the Sunday TV listings. Couplehood, by Mad About You co-star Paul Reiser, has been in the Top 10 for the past eight weeks. Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, by Home Improvement's Tim Allen, just landed at No. 1. Jerry Seinfeld's SeinLanguage spent five weeks in the top spot last fall and is about to come out in paperback. Dennis Miller, Garry Shandling and Ellen DeGeneres (star of ABC's Ellen) have books in the works...
...Warner Bros. would be a second choice.) But when Matsushita's bosses meet with Wasserman and Sheinberg this week, they may take the long Japanese view and decide they don't want to unload MCA -- least of all to Geffen and Spielberg. "I'm not sure Matsushita is a seller," says an entertainment analyst. "Besides, the Japanese might say, 'Don't two of these three guys work for us already...
...written with his wife Ginger Ross Breggin), he says the drug is merely a stimulant that does not get to the root of depression and is probably dangerous when used over long periods. He has dumped on Prozac in TV and radio debates with Dr. Peter Kramer, whose best seller Listening to Prozac describes the drug's powers in generally favorable terms. In the process, Breggin has infuriated Prozac's manufacturer, Eli Lilly, prompting the firm to deluge journalists with material intended to discredit the maverick psychiatrist...
...golfer. It's hard not to roll your eyes when M. Scott Peck, M.D., personal-enrichment guru to the nation's conflicted upper middle class, author of The Road Less Traveled, a self-help manual whose sales have placed it on the New York Times best-seller list for the past 566 weeks, announces that he is sponsoring a $10,000-a-foursome golf tournament to promote "spirituality, golf and the fine art of business management." Business biggies will tee off this weekend at Peck's home course in Bodega Bay, California, hoping to enhance both market share and their...
...signs that the issue has captured the public's attention are manifest. Bennett's A Book of Virtues, a compilation of stories and fables intended to instill fundamental values, is on the top of the best-seller list. Features on the crisis of values have become commonplace on talk and news programs. Last week alone, Nightline had two programs on the issue...