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NAME: PETER ("I'M NOT A SIMPSON") BART OCCUPATION: Editor, Variety BEST PUNCH: In his new book, The Gross, the Hits, the Flops, claims Beatty lifted the idea for the film Bulworth from works by Somerset Maugham and Jules Verne...
...Andrew Eliot left East Coker in Somerset, England, for Boston. Two hundred and eighteen years later, his direct descendant, Thomas Stearns Eliot--who would become the most celebrated English-language poet of the century--was born in St. Louis, Mo., to a businessman and a poet, Henry and Charlotte Eliot. Although young Tom was brilliantly educated in English and European literature and in Eastern and Western philosophy and religion, he fled--in his mid 20s--the career in philosophy awaiting him at Harvard, and moved to England. There he married (disastrously), met the entrepreneurial Ezra Pound and, while working...
...Jones. He had a birthday on April 23, when he turned 29; his lawyers gave him two flannel shirts and a box of Peppermint Patties. He spends most of his time in jail reading the piles of mail he receives. He also reads books. Last month it was W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, and he is now finishing Man's Fate by Andre Malraux. A book about a young man's spiritual quest and one about revolutionaries--McVeigh must be taking both seriously...
...spirits ever so slightly last year, breaking a 15-year decline. Some 135 million cases of the stuff went down, according to Impact, an industry trade journal. "With the economy being fairly buoyant, people are in a position to indulge themselves more," says Jamie Prusak, vice president of Schieffelin & Somerset, a liquor distributor. The increase also reflects--note all those lighted cigars--a revolt against the saintly life, known as the "pleasure revenge...
...trashing the time-honored tradition of job security. Mandatory service contracts that bind employees as a condition for receiving training are adversarial and largely unenforceable in the real world. They are not part of the answer, as your report suggests, but an extension of the underlying problem. DANIEL COBEN Somerset, New Jersey...