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Candace Bushnell Strikes With Vitriol |
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Candace Bushnell, she of Sex and the City fame, is set to release a new novel later this summer. "Lipstick Jungle" contains very nasty descriptions of Si Newhouse, owner of the Conde Nast publishing empire.
In the book, the Newhouse alter-ego is named Walter Bozack, president and CEO of Ratz Neste publishing. Bozack/Newhouse is described as being"small and uncannily rodent like" with "tiny and red" eyes, a smile that revealed "small, half-formed graying yellow teeth that barely poked over the gum line" (just like the rest of the Bozack family, she writes), and a hand "as clammy and weak as a deformed claw."
A prestigious magazine editor, speaking under condition of anonymity, said: "Very few people are brave enough to describe a certain magazine magnate quite so accurately. Of course, he will probably not recognize himself in it. He sees himself as handsome and 6-foot-2."
The present writer used to work out in the same gym as Mr. Newhouse, and has written for Conde Nast magazines. Given his position, Mr. Newhouse could be an ogre if he wanted, but in my encounters with him he always proved to be an affable, open and admirable man. (By Scott Rose)
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