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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...
...Love Machine, Susann (1 last week...
Novelist Jacqueline (The Love Machine) Susann was propped up in bed in her Manhattan apartment sleepily watching Johnny Carson chat with Author Truman (In Cold Blood) Capote on the Tonight Show. Suddenly she realized that they were talking about her. "A truck driver in drag," Capote was saying. "A born transvestite" who wears "marvelous wigs and sleazy dresses," he continued, "would have been so great" as Myra Breckinridge. Before the angry authoress was out of bed next morning, she had lawyers on the phone discussing damage suits against Capote and NBC. As for why Capote chose to attack...
...Love Machine, Susann (1 last week...
...Love Machine, Susann (1 last week) 2. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (2) 3. Ada, Nabokov (3) 4. The Godfather, Puzo (4) 5. Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut (6) 6. Except for Me and Thee, West (7) 7. The Andromeda Strain, Crichton (8) 8. The Goodbye Look, Macdonald 9. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (5) 10. Bullet Park, Cheever...