Posted on 09/12/2003 6:34:12 AM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:16:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
September 12, 2003 -- THE Jayson Blair book. Seems everyone's itchy to see this manuscript, except maybe the menopausal Gray Lady's ex-lover Howell Raines, who doesn't even want to see this human being. But seems everyone else does. The final deal, after a fortnight talking it over, was finally only officially concluded Monday. Tuesday Michael Viner, the publisher of New Millennium, who lives on the West Coast, and Jayson Blair, the pariah who lives on the East Coast, met face-to-face for the first time. They clinked bagels for luck at a power breakfast at the Regency. And everybody - Bob Tisch, Larry King, Neil Simon, Walter Cronkite - came by the table. Says Viner: "I didn't realize I was that popular."
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