Word: susanne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JACQUELINE SUSANN'S ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH...
...basically inferior to men. For example, for two hundred years, women who write fiction have been saddled with either accepting or trying to deny "the bright, controlled subjectivity of a feminine prose manner"--all the words and criticisms that have relegated the works of both Jane Austen and Jacqueline Susann to the same back boudoir filled with overfrilled chintz...
Died. Jacqueline Susann, 53, strong-willed author whose creative caldron boiled over with lucrative tales of sex-and drug-happy celebrity types; of cancer; in Manhattan. The daughter of a successful portrait painter, Susann took up writing after an undistinguished stage career. But in her extensive promotional tours for Valley of the Dolls (1966), The Love Machine (1969), Once Is Not Enough (1973) and her nonfiction opus, Every Night, Josephine!, Susann kept her theatrical instincts well honed; she and her husband for 29 years, TV Producer Irving Mansfield helped make sure that even if her well-merchandized works were scorned...
Baser Metal. Paul Erdman is an exception. Although he is not the James Joyce of high finance, he is not Jacqueline Susann either. His plots and characters tend to be simple, but he combines a zest for the intricate poetry of the big deal with the ability and cheerful willingness to explain it. His first novel, the bestselling The Billion Dollar Sure Thing, straightened out the mysterious alchemy of the international gold market. It earned added interest from Erdman himself, a financier and economist who wrote the book while a resident in the Basel prison. The Swiss government insisted that...
...flying to New York "for some dates at El Morocco"? Lyons heard it there and so reported. What did Artur Rubinstein's wife cook for dinner the night before? The pianist gave Lyons the answer (Polish chicken) at the Côte Basque. Was it true that Jacqueline Susann met that other author, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., at Sardi's? Lyons was there as a witness...