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...three-month-old strike has sidelined more than 12,000 writers???writers of prime-time shows you can't live without, movies you haven't heard of yet and soap operas you're pretty sure are recycling story lines from 10 years ago. But it's the late-night hosts who have been in the most visible, and delicate, position. Leno and Letterman are both former stand-up comics and Guild members themselves, who supported their fellow union members for weeks, refusing to do their shows until the prospect of laying off all their nonstriking staff members forced them into...
...also related to his more universal concerns. Skinner worries about the fact that, as Walden Two's Frazier put it, "our civilization is running away like a frightened horse. As she runs, her speed and her panic increase together. As for your politicians, your professors, your writers???let them wave their arms and shout as wildly as they will...
After the Las Vegas wedding?attended by 37 still cameras, 14 motion-picture cameras and seven writers???show business set in. "Hah!" chortled Sinatra's ex-wife Ava Gardner, "I always knew Frank would wind up in bed with a boy." The gossip columnists were scarcely kinder. The pair's every waking hour seemed to make the wire services. During the affair, when she lopped off her hair, Dali called it "mythical suicide." After the separation, her behavior seemed more of the same. She flew off to India with her flower-child sister Prudence* for a month of transcendental meditation...
...time. Then they make it clear that as she has conceived, so shall she bear. No fair telling the end, shocking though it is; Miss Macfadyen has devised with restraint worthy of emulation. She handles substance as deftly as shadow and abides by Rule 1 for horror-writers???"The brighter the sun, the blacker the shade...
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