Sometimes, Your Royal Highness, you just can`t win for losin`. Recently Britain`s Princess Di confided to a Canadian reporter that she read all her press clippings and was very sensitive to criticism. Then, pointing to her chest, she said, ”When they write something horrible, I get a horrible feeling right here and I don`t want to go out.” In ”The Selling of the Royal Family: The Mystique of the British Monarchy” (Simon and Schuster), author John Pearson notes that the reporter promptly printed the remarks.
If there`s anything more amazing than an Overnight Sensation, it`s when an Overnight Sensation hits the skids and then reaches the top again. Diane Von Furstenberg made fashion history in the early `70s parlaying her little wrapdress into a $250-million empire. But women got tired of the wrapdress, and in 1977 Von Furstenberg gave up control of DVF Inc. and went into seclusion, dismissed as a one-dress Charlie. In 1982 she came out of hiding, regained control of her dress line and now has built it up again to a megamillion business. In the August issue of Success! magazine she says, ”It would have been easy for me to take my money and be content, but that wouldn`t be controlling my own destiny.”
Daryl Hall of Hall and Oates is working on a solo album because he`s got some things he just has to get off his chest. ”Some people go to
psychiatrists,” says Hall, ”I write songs. I`m baring my soul and writing about things that are happening to me. In the past I`ve used myself as a symbol. But this time I`m writing about overcoming emotional experiences and dealing with my own demons.”
REPLAYS
”Nature fits all her children with something to do: He who would write and can`t write can surely review.”
James Russell Lowell.
”A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more than a good drunk is a good bartender.”
Jim Bishop.
”I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.”
Max Reger.
