Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...veejay Matt Pinfield, a bald, overweight, 34-year-old ex-radio station manager and Uncle Fester lookalike whom the Tiger Beat editors consistently overlook. Pinfield, though, knows music; his long-running alternative-rock show, 120 Minutes, had a ring of authenticity that veejays like Simon Rex, hottie though he may be, just couldn't deliver. Pinfield plays host on several shows that cross a range of musical genres, something MTV is able to do now that pop is resurfacing and breaking down the old barriers. "Our audience is smarter than people give them credit for," he says, leaning forward...
...They fire manager Simon Fuller, who is dating Baby Spice...
...left Foggy Bottom last week to get a closer look at diplomacy--or the lack of it--in action. He flew to the U.S.S. Nimitz, somewhere in the Persian Gulf. Waller knows his way around carriers, having recently completed a book on Navy pilots that will be published by Simon & Schuster next June. Still, getting to the ship required some doing, between getting permission to board and rousting out a groggy Bahraini official in the middle of the night to obtain a visa. Waller's efforts result in a rare glimpse of the intricate workings of both the aircraft carrier...
Consider two new sequels by a couple of very good writers, Larry McMurtry (Comanche Moon; Simon & Schuster; 752 pages; $28.50), and Peter Matthiessen (Lost Man's River; Random House; 539 pages; $26.95). Each lengthy book has its strong points, and each is worth a reader's time; but for quite different reasons, neither entirely works...
...complex team effort. But as Ambrose bluntly says of World War II, "None of this would have mattered if the infantry had failed to do its duty, because in the end it came down to the poor sons-of-bitches making the attack." The proof is in Citizen Soldiers (Simon & Schuster; 512 pages; $27.50), Ambrose's 20th book and a high point of his long fascination with the nature of leaders and followers...