Word: susann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Love Machine, Susann...
Novelist Jacqueline Susann deftly turned the other cheek on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, disappointing the sleepless millions who awaited her delayed reply to Truman Capote's allegation that she looked, among other things, "like a truck driver in drag." As the author of The Love Machine went through her chat with Carson, the subject never came up. Just as she was to leave, her host asked innocently: "What do you think of Truman?" "Truman . . . Truman," she considered gravely. "I think history will prove he was one of the best Presidents...
...FICTION 1. The Godfather, Puzo (2 last week) 2. The Love Machine, Susann(l) 3. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (3) 4. The Andromeda Strain, Crichton (4) 5. The Pretenders, Davis (5) 6. Ada, Nabokov (6) 7. Naked Came the Stranger, Ashe (7) 8. Except for Me and Thee, West (10) 9. The Goodbye Look, Macdonald (8) 10. The Death Committee, Gordon
...Love Machine, Susann (1 last week...
Moaning garden snakes? Melted fillings? Cervantes and Milton! What is this nonsense? And just who is this Penelope Ashe, anyway? Until last week, she was a "demure Long Island housewife" seen stroking her Afghan hound on the book jacket of Naked Came the Stranger. Dutifully, à la Jacqueline Susann, she made the rounds of radio and TV interview shows saying things like "a writer's gotta impale his guts on the typewriter." C'mon Penelope, you gotta be putting...