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...ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), which tabulates the airplay of songs and collects royalties for writers and publishers, Springsteen may ultimately earn more than $1 million in such fees from the songs on the Live album alone. Says Messinger: "He is one of the ten most-played songwriters. He is keeping company with Irving Berlin, Cole Porter and George Gershwin...
...autobiography, had not yet completed the process of total reinvention that was the largest promise acting held out to him as a young man. Born Archibald Leach in bleak Bristol, England, son of a drinking, defeated father and a mother who was placed in a madhouse when he was ten, he was a lonely, latchkey child, who decided on a life in show biz the first time he visited backstage. "A dazzling land of smiling, jostling people ... classless, cheerful and carefree," is how he later described what...
Carlucci, who until recently served as chairman of Sears World Trade Inc., stresses that in his new job he will report directly to the President. But he pointedly noted that he would "certainly envisage keeping the President's chief of staff informed." He immediately sent in a ten-member team to sniff out structural and personnel problems at the NSC. "I want to rebuild the NSC policy-formulation machinery," he said in an interview. Covert operations like the one in Iran, he notes, "are at times desirable," but "all the procedures need to be followed." Unlike his predecessors, however...
...decision to seek a special prosecutor came only ten days after Meese says he uncovered evidence of possible wrongdoing. Nevertheless, Meese has been criticized for his handling of the investigation in the early stages. At first he spurned an offer from FBI Chief William Webster to provide bureau help. Instead he formed his own squad of three aides to help with the inquiry and waited five days before finally calling in the FBI. In failing to secure North's files, Meese may have given the former NSC official the opportunity to destroy important documents. Said a Justice Department official...
Simon spends several months a year in Los Angeles, a necessity for his film career, and the rest in Manhattan, which he calls home. The ten-room Los Angeles dwelling, of white brick and wood, houses an extensive collection of modern art (including works by Modigliani and Edward Hopper) and sits above three tiers of terraces, with the obligatory swimming pool on the bottom tier, although Simon does not swim. He is a passionate tennis player, yet the house has no tennis court. "First you wind up providing the balls, then the Cokes?there's no end to it," Simon...