John Denver, seated atop his Rocky Mountain, has been writing letters and sending them to Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II to propose a way to wind down the arms race. Denver calls his plan ”the 1-percent solution,” whereby both the U.S. and the USSR would each take 1 percent of their defense budgets and invest the money at home and in the Third World to alleviate poverty. Denver says his plan would replace ”weaponry with livingry.”
World-renowned violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman has a good way for the able of the world to begin to understand the plight of the disabled. Perlman, whose legs are paralyzed from polio, suggests they ”spend a day or two in a wheelchair. Then try to get into a car. Try to go shopping or use the toilet in a restaurant. See what it feels like to be all dressed up and have to ride to your appointment in a freight elevator with the garbage.” Writing in the March issue of Glamour magazine, he reveals how he feels about it:
”Furious.”
Was Truman Capote, the famed author of ”Breakfast at Tiffany`s” and
”In Cold Blood,” jealous of Jacqueline Susann and her ”The Valley of the Dolls”? Yes, says Capote`s pal, Donald Windham, author of ”Lost
Friendships” (William Morrow). ”He felt about her as Gore (Vidal) had felt about him. She had taken over, or at least he felt that she had taken over his place on the best-seller lists. She had proved that he was not the one person in the world who could get a million dollars` worth of free publicity. He made cracks about her on various TV talk shows, considered her his competition, coveted her subject matter, thought, `I could do that better,` about her work.”
REPLAYS
”Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
Jospeh Heller
”The average person thinks he isn`t.”
Larry Lorenzoni
”Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
