Memoirs

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Publishing Insider Admits What We Already Know: Most Celebrity Memoirs Are Terrible

Ever wonder how all those celebrity memoirs get published? Writing at The Daily Beast, former Simon & Schuster editor in chief Michael Korda describes how book publishers get seduced by Hollywood glitter: “Stranded in Beverly Hills, where movie stars and studio heads and successful directors outranked them, where you can’t walk to anywhere, and where people who matter arrive at the porte cochère of the hotel or the restaurant in a glittering car or limousine, sometimes to be greeted by a storm of photoflashes, they were fair game, thirsting for tea or drinks with even the most passé of movie stars and prepared to find them glamorous and fascinating.” Suckers! Read More

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Drunken Diners, Angry Royalty—It’s Springtime at the Grill!

This week everyone was celebrating the arrival of spring at the Grill. Henry Kissinger and Michael Korda were seen noshing together. Michael Ovitz came in with a man wearing very fancy shoes (I always notice these things), and Georgette Mosbacher was here with a good-looking woman … muy caliente, as they say in Spain! Arne Read More

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 18th

Lotus entertain you! Let’s face it: No matter how many well-showered fashion models, cozy little pie companies and fancy flower markets they put in the meatpacking district, the place just isn’t gonna smell good until they clear out those dear, departed cows …. But can you blame a gal for trying? Tonight at Read More

Eight Day Week

Wednesday 18th

Lotus entertain you! Let’s face it: No matter how many well-showered fashion models, cozy little pie companies and fancy flower markets they put in the meatpacking district, the place just isn’t gonna smell good until they clear out those dear, departed cows . But can you blame a gal for trying? Tonight at Read More

A Book Editor in Palmy Days; His Stable of Fabulous Beasts

Another Life: A Memoir of Other People , by Michael Korda. Random House, 530 pages, $26.95.

Publishers’ memoirs are inevitably fatuous or self-centered–”So I said to him, ‘Leo, why only do war? Do peace, too!’” Michael Korda’s Another Life is not just a horse of a different color, it’s a different kind of animal altogether–a Read More