from SLATE: >Yesterday's NY [TIMES] mag issue on secrecy included screenwriter and >novelist Erik Tarloff's confession of his little secret: as an >18-year-old he got a job writing pornography. (Actually a semi-confession: >he doesn't reveal the pseudonym he wrote under.) Tarloff explains that >this never really followed him in later pursuits until President Clinton >named his wife, Laura Tyson, to a Cabinet-level position [head of the >President's Council of Economic Advisors] and he was asked to submit some >of his writings as part of her vetting process. He decided not to include >his skin stuff and his wife got the job. Tarloff found out later that at >least one journalist did find out, but wrote nothing. Lingering question: >Tarloff seems convinced that if he'd submitted his porno books, his wife >would never have made it. If there's ever a George W. Bush administration, >will Lynne Cheney's novels or the Starr Report be held to the same standard? and Doug thought that Laura Tyson might be connected to Tyson Chicken... Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
