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...true what rocker Nick Lowe sang--you've got to be cruel to be kind--then Simon Cowell is the kindest man on TV. A judge on Fox's hit singing contest American Idol: The Search for a Superstar, the British BMG Records executive eviscerates wannabe divas with insults that would make one reconsider singing in the shower, let alone in public. "Who's your teacher?" he said to one aspirant. "Get a lawyer...
After finishing college (Bernays at Barnard, Kaplan at Harvard), each settled in Manhattan seeking a job in publishing. She landed at Town & Country, where she accidentally set a fire in a pail. She moved on to the literary journal discovery. He found a job at Simon & Schuster. Through work, the two met, and sparks flew. "Annie had a core of sweetness, shrewdness and merriment," writes Kaplan. She was "immensely attractive, a proto-feminist, self-assured, easily amused, wary of anything pretentious, street-smart, privileged without ostentation or snobbery, comfortable with luxury but unspoiled by it, and professional minded." Bernays...
...amassed one of the world's most famous jewelry collections. There is the flawless 33.18 carat Krupp diamond given to her by Richard Burton when she was 36, and the pear-shaped white pearl that was briefly lost when her dog thought it was a bone. In October, Simon & Schuster will publish "My Love Affair with Jewelry" by Liz herself, with all of the jewelry specially photographed for the book...
...January, Simon & Schuster will publish, "The Nation at War: Inside the Bush White House" by Bob Woodward. Says the publisher, "Based on hundreds of interviews with officials in the White House and throughout the Administration, Woodward's account will provide the first in-depth behind-the-scenes story of the new, untested President and his advisors as they respond to the worst acts of terror on American soil in history, fight an entirely unprecedented war, and battle a faltering economy...
...January, Simon & Schuster will publish, "Going to the People" by Joseph and Hadassah Lieberman. According to their publisher, "there has never been such a frank account of the American way of running for national office...