zEN mAN (observing a thriving active art scene all over the city of Oakland....armed with my Nikon camera and my model friend Rhia.....We went around my west Oakland neighborhood and took shots of amazing scenes and lots of graffiti...Oakland has an amazing downtown artscene known as "Art Murmur" where on the 1st friday of every month downtown Oakland becomes live outside walk about gallery....whoda thunk...in Oakland)
Paul Krugman: The Real Referendum
There will be calls - as there were at the time of the Democratic National Convention - for him to officially endorse Simpson-Bowles, the budget proposal issued by the co-chairmen of his deficit commission (although never accepted by the commission as a whole). And Mr. Obama should just say no, for three reasons.
Paul Krugman: "A Public Service Reminder: Simpson-Bowles Is Terrible" (New York Times)
Simpson-Bowles is terrible. It mucks around with taxes, but is obsessed with lowering marginal rates despite a complete absence of evidence that this is important. It offers nothing on Medicare that isn't already in the Affordable Care Act. And it raises the Social Security retirement age because life expectancy has risen - completely ignoring the fact that life expectancy has only gone up for the well-off and well-educated, while stagnating or even declining among the people who need the program most.
Chuck Norris: Maximizing Your Children's Brainpower (Creators Syndicate)
Do you want your child to do better in school? Want him to be more attentive at home? Then closely examine what he is eating. Experts say that certain "brain foods" can help bolster a child's brain development and growth, including improving memory and concentration.
Alexis Petrides: The Mike Love masterclass in how to sack the Beach Boys (Guardian)
Lost in Showbiz has been a huge fan of Love ever since it read the passage in Wilson's autobiography, Wouldn't It Be Nice? - which in fairness, it later transpired Wilson had never actually read, let alone written, but never mind - in which it was claimed Love had called all the Beach Boys to his hotel room's toilet during an early tour to look at a particularly big stool he had recently passed. Here, it thought, was a man not like other rock stars, a point subsequently proven on many occasions over the years.
Henry Rollins: How I Spend My Nights Off (LA Weekly)
It is a night off. I am in Boise, Idaho, sitting in the Crux, a coffeehouse on Main Street. Not many people in here tonight. The front of the place is all glass and I am afforded a great view of the street. Music is coming through the system, loud and not to my liking, and so I have brought my own. I always do.
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"Ringo, I Love You" is the first solo song recorded by Cher. The single was released under the name of Bonnie Jo Mason because producer Phil Spector wanted American names for his singers, and unsurprisingly, Cherilyn La Piere wasn't a name he considered 'American'.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Cher
Charlie said:
Cheryl LaPiere Bono Allman Sarkisian
Cher, that is....
BttbBob wrote:
Cher... in 1964... I think the tune is pretty lame. But, decide for yourself...
Cher (Bonnie Jo Mason) - Ringo I Love You - YouTube
Lots of 'Yeah, yeah, yeah' in it, but considering it was '64, I'm not at all surprised...
Marian responded:
Cher
Adam answered:
Cher.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Ringo, I Love You" is a rock song performed by American singer-actress
Cher released under the pseudonym "Bonnie Jo Mason
Dale of Diamond Springs responded:
That's one that's easy---Cher!!!!
Sally said:
Q: Who is Bonnie Jo Mason?
A: Why it's Chaz Bono's mom, Cher!
Like mother; like son??
PS: Loved the photo's of the rock formations by B2BB! Almost makes one want to go and see them in person - from a helicopter of course...
I really did like them, joking aside. :)
Sometimes it's sorta fun to see something happen that is supposed to be so bad just to find out if it really is as horrible as everyone said it would be. Now the down side is of course when it turns to be a real bummer or worse but watching it is still major guilty fun. You do sorta feel slimy all over. Kinda like after paying to see another Tom Cruise Mission Impossible movie. Ok, maybe if Mitt Romney is actually elected president of the United States of America some of us who wondered what the hell this country would look like would jog to the nearest bridge to take a flying leap into a welcoming concrete surface but I always wanted to see if it would be either really cool or really scary to live in a non movie Thunderdome world. I don't think Mel Gibson ever really had to piss his pants cuz before someone would smash his head like Gallagher does to a watermelon some weenie assistant to the director of photography would yell lunch or something. I know for a fact that it hurts like hell to have your head crushed by a two by four with 10 inch nails sticking out of it so it would be way more exciting to see a butt load of real Mad Maxes fighting to the death in every 99% neighborhood. Especially if they had some of those major cool dune buggies they had in the movie. The closest I ever got to one of those is when I built a soapbox derby piece of crap in the 6th grade. The back wheels came off in my first and only heat so I finished last. Never got in a race car again to this day.
I know all-out war between the haves and have not's wouldn't break out right away, like in a week or two after Romney is elected. Nah, It would take at least a few months before all the college kids lose those Pell Grants, the seniors who couldn't afford their pills after the second week on the month, the vets who talk to themselves couldn't get counseling and families stopped getting food stamps for everyone, maybe having to cut loose kids after 13 or so. As long as the GOP keeps everybody's cable on things will be stable for a while but sooner or later it will all blow up like that place in the sandy part of the world where that guy set himself on fire. Maybe we won't have a "USA Spring" but it will hit the fan for sure. I know I am stocking up on water balloons just in case I have to heave them from my apartment building. They totally hurt like hell from 8 stories up you know. This actually might be a good time too to look into rents in Canada. I'm just saying. Not that I don't love my country cuz I do. It's the very best country in the world. Better than even all those places where illegal stuff here is legal there. Maybe they are more fun but we are the freaking United States of America so if we do riot here you know it will be bigger and better than anywhere else in the world cuz we are good at everything (except like math & science).
I am guessing Mitt & his posse are not real worried about people scrounging around in their garbage cans for dinner as the gates and or fences around their neighborhoods are higher than the Space Needle. They also have like their own security dudes who make sure we don't accidently sneak thru on Halloween to scarf up bricks of Swiss chocolate and shots of absinthe for the bored parents waiting for the little ones to burn out from an imported very rich sugar high. I was thinking how lame it must be to live in one of those high end ghetto's cuz no one's is going to be tossing the ball around on the streets, no one is firing up the charcoal grill or setting up the slip-n-slide on a hot day. I guess something goes on in these people's back yards but I'm pretty sure it's nothing even close to having a blast. Maybe Mitt's grandkids are mildly amused making his car elevator go up and down in their Calli summer cabin. I gotta admit I would sorta dig doing that too but for only for an hour or two max. You wonder how those 1% sorta parents ever even have any real fun as that stuff happens way, way away from their little kingdoms. I mean have you ever seen a Hooters in a fancy neighborhood? I don't think so.
I know the one thing that may make Obama a sure thing though in this election thingy coming up soon and that is making all the ex-frat boys and bleached blondes on FOX NEWS basically meltdown into a puddle of spit when they have to say on the air who won. There are at least 100 million voters who would really; really like to see this and a lot would probably save it on their DVR forever. Maybe cue it up whenever they felt a little down. I know I don't own one of those machines (where do they sell DVR tape?) But I'm putting one on lay-a-way tomorrow to get ready to record the fun. If the unbelievable does in fact happen though and Mitt Romney is our next president I guess instead I will probably have to make some kind of real weapon to defend myself as I can't sure afford a gun or a flame thrower at Wal-Mart until I pay off the DVR. Sure it will be kind of cool to watch fights to the death over scraps of a Little Caesar's pizza or some backwash in a Red Bull can but it could get old quick. Like one of those Freddy Krueger movies, after the 7th or 8th stupid college student gets mutilated it's not that special. Anyway, everyone needs to be prepared as it will get ugly as this is going to be bigger than any Super Bowl or Justin Bieber concert ever so be on your toes for God's sake. Later
CBS begins the night with a FRESH'NCIS', followed by a FRESH'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a FRESH'Vegas'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Martin Short and Kat Dennings.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Mindy Kaling and Carrot Top.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Voice', followed by a FRESH'Go On', then a FRESH'The New Normal', followed by a FRESH'Parenthood'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Carol Burnett, Armie Hammer, and Lang Lang.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Anderson Cooper, Mamie Gummer, and Kendrick Lamar.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Brother Ali, "The Iran Job", and Desaparecidos.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', followed by another FRESH'Dancing With The Stars', then a FRESH'Private Practice'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Ty Burrell, the latest "Dancing with the Stars" castoff, and PSY.
The CW offers a FRESH'Hart Of Dixie', followed by a FRESH'The Next: Fame Is At Your Doorstep'.
Faux has a FRESH'Raising Hope', followed by a FRESH'Ben & Kate', then a FRESH'New Girl', followed by a FRESH'The Mindy Project'.
MY has an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Shipping Wars', then another FRESH'Shipping Wars'.
AMC offers 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by the movie 'The Fifth Element', then the movie 'Mission to Mars'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 10 - Ep 19 - Hugh Grant, Jo Brand, Joanna Page, David Guetta
[9:00AM] MERLIN - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Valiant
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 5 - Ep 4 - The Time of Angels
[11:00AM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - MINISERIES
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Spanish Pavilion
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Classic American
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Grasshopper Also
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 4 - Davide
[4:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 5 - DownCity
[5:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 6 - Cafe Tavolini
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 7 - Kingston Cafe
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 8 - La Frite
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 1 - Blackberry's NEW
[9:00PM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S. - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Vegas or Bust!
[10:00PM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S. - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Bison Battle NEW
[11:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 1 - Blackberry's
[12:00AM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S. - Season 1 - Ep 1 - Vegas or Bust!
[1:00AM] CHEF RACE: U.K. VS. U.S. - Season 1 - Ep 2 - Bison Battle
[2:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Spanish Pavilion
[3:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 2 - Classic American
[4:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 3 - Grasshopper Also
[5:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 4 - Davide (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', 'Flipping Out', followed by a FRESH'Flipping Out'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Brickleberry'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is Liam Neeson.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Jorge Ramos.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Taken', then a FRESH'Sons Of Anarchy'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by the FRESH'How Playboy Changed The World'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Dying Breed
[8:00AM] The Skeptic
[10:00AM] Undead
[12:00PM] Dying Breed
[2:00PM] The Skeptic
[4:00PM] Undead
[6:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle
[6:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Company Picnic
[7:00PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Company Picnic
[7:30PM] Malcolm in the Middle-Reese Drives
[8:00PM] Creepshow
[10:30PM] Saw II
[12:30AM] Creepshow
[3:00AM] Saw II
[5:00AM] The IT Crowd-Calamity Jen
[5:30AM] Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town-Who Mailed Our Mayor? (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Freezing
[7:30A] Kassim the Dream
[9:00A] Birdwatchers
[11:00A] Freezing
[12:30P] Kassim the Dream
[2:00P] Birdwatchers
[4:00P] Freezing
[5:30P] Full Grown Men
[7:00P] ICONOCLASTS - Tony Hawk + Jon Favreau (Episode 5, Season 4)
[8:00P] Happy Endings
[10:15P] Eloise's Lover
[12:00A] Election
[1:45A] Happy Endings
[4:00A] Police, Adjective (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has 'Face Off', another 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', then a FRESH'Hot Set'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Ashley Greene and Hari Kondabolu.
"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane will host the 2013 Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles.
First-time Academy Awards producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron made the announcement Monday.
MacFarlane made his directorial debut earlier this year with "Ted," which took in more than $420 million at the box office. The 38-year-old entertainer also hosted the season opener of "Saturday Night Live" last month.
Nominations for the 85th annual Oscars will be announced on Jan. 10 - nearly a week earlier than typically revealed and coming ahead of the Golden Globe Awards. The Oscars will be presented Feb. 24 at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Los Angeles.
Though reality TV workers once made it as far as the bargaining table, most are as far as ever from winning union representation.
Under its former president, the strongly pro-organizing Patric Verrone, the Writers Guild West tried to shine a public spotlight on the sector with its "Reality Rights" campaign.
But the issue was knocked out at the finish line in the guild's last contract negotiations with the studios and networks. Meanwhile improved work conditions, a fragmented, freelance work force and pressures of a weak economy have set those efforts back considerably since 2009.
There is no umbrella group for the production companies. Many production firms are put together for a specific project, the way a TV movie or indie film is. The projects can be one-offs, planned for single season or simply canceled quickly. Neither the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers nor the Motion Picture Association of America maintains overall data on the sector.
One of the best indicators of reality's scope comes from FilmLA. The non-profit agency responsible for issuing location permits reports that for the past three years, about 40 percent of the TV permits issued have been for reality projects.
Sir Paul McCartney, his wife Nancy Shevell and model Kate Moss, right, take their sets in the front row for British fashion designer Stella McCartney's ready to wear Spring-Summer 2013 collection, presented in Paris, Monday, Oct.1, 2012
Mandolin player and composer Chris Thilelearned the hard way that when you get a call from the 312 area code this time of year, you should probably answer the phone.
Thile is among 23 recipients of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," which are given in a secrecy-shrouded process.Winners have no idea they've been nominated for the $500,000 awards until they get the call, and nominators must remain anonymous.
Thile ignored the incessant phone calls from the foundation at first, thinking they were election-year robocalls. Then he received an ominous message: "Don't tell anyone about this call."
His tour manager searched for the number online and told him, "It appears to be from something called the MacArthur Foundation." It was a name Thile recognized.
The grants, paid over five years, give recipients freedom to pursue a creative vision. Winners, who work in fields ranging from medicine and science to the arts and journalism, don't have to report how they spend the money.
A collection of humorist Calvin Trillin's writings called "Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff" has won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
The award is named for humorist James Thurber, who was known for the short stories and cartoons he contributed to The New Yorker magazine. It first was presented in 1997.
The 76-year-old Trillin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1963. He is the author of 20 books, including the bestselling "About Alice" and "Obliviously on He Sails."
Runners up for the prize announced in New York on Monday were Patricia Marx's novel "Starting from Happy" and Nate DiMeo's fictional "Pawnee," based on the setting of NBC's "Parks and Recreation," for which DiMeo is a staff writer.
U.S. singer Lady Gaga walks with Italian designer Donatella Versace (R) after arriving in front of the Gianni Versace atelier in downtown Milan, October 1, 2012.
Photo by Stefano Rellandini
The "Big Miracle" star and her husband, Will Kopelman, welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Olive, Sept. 26.
"We are proud to announce the birth of our daughter, Olive Barrymore Kopelman, born September 26th, healthy, happy and welcomed by the whole family," the couple's rep said in a statement to People magazine. "Thank you for respecting our privacy during this most special time in our lives."
The couple wed at Barrymore's Montecito, Calif., home June 2. Wedding photos showed Kopelman clutching Barrymore's pregnant belly. The actress was recently spotted around Los Angeles with a growing bump and attending prenatal yoga classes.
A Russian court postponed an appeal Monday by three members of the jailed rock band Pussy Riot after one of them fired her lawyers. Prosecutors criticized the move as a delaying tactic, while one defense lawyer said the women were under tremendous pressure, with the government threatening to take away their children.
The two year-sentences given the three performers for hooliganism after they performed a "punk prayer" against President Vladimir Putin at Moscow's main cathedral have provoked an international outcry that has embarrassed Putin's government.
The band members' imprisonment has come to symbolize intolerance of dissent in Putin's Russia and the increasingly close links between the government and the Orthodox church, which have angered many Russians.
As the hearing began Monday, band member Yekaterina Samutsevich unexpectedly announced that she has fired her three lawyers over an unspecified disagreement.
Samutsevich said she had found another lawyer but had not yet signed a contract. Her fellow band members said they supported Samutsevich's choice but would still retain the services of their lawyers.
Residents hold up giant paper masks of wrestlers during festivities for Saint Michael the Archangel in the town of Zacualpan de Amilpas, on the outskirts of Cuernavaca, September 30, 2012. According to local media, the community held a carnival in honor of their patron, Saint Michael the Archangel, to thank him for the autumn harvest.
Photo by Margarito Perez Retana
A divided appellate court upheld Don Johnson's multimillion jury award over profits from the series "Nash Bridges" but cut its amount by more than $8 million on Monday.
The California 2nd District Court of Appeal panel voted 2-1 to uphold a verdict that determined the actor was owed millions from the hit series, but cut its amount from $23.2 million down to $15 million. The actor is still eligible to recoup interest on the award, which was originally calculated at more than $28 million.
The justices determined that jurors erred when they took into account that Johnson might have earned interest payments while fighting the case, which ended in 2010 with the multimillion verdict. The panel decided to add 5 per cent interest to the original $15 million amount they agreed Johnson should receive, according to the opinion released Monday.
Johnson was awarded half of the show's copyrights at trial, which made him eligible to receive continued profits from the show as long as it remains in syndication.
Police in Las Vegas say the 21-year-old model boyfriend of celebrity socialite Paris Hilton was cited after a scuffle with another man at a Las Vegas Strip nightclub.
Officer Laura Meltzer said River Viiperi was ticketed for misdemeanor battery and released after police were called about 3:30 a.m. Monday to the Wynn Las Vegas resort.
Meltzer says a man complained that Viiperi hit him during a verbal argument. No serious injuries resulted.
Meltzer didn't identify the complainant, and she says police officers didn't talk with the 31-year-old Hilton, who had been with Viiperi at the club.
Buddhists pray during the first day of the "Pchum Ben" (festival of the dead) at Moha Montrei pagoda in Phnom Penh October 1, 2012. Cambodians visit temples during the 15 day festival to offer prayers to their loved ones who have passed away.
Photo by Samrang Pring
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is a glittering gem - the world's largest coral reef ecosystem - chock-full of diverse marine life. But new research shows it is also in steep decline, with half of the reef vanishing in the past 27 years.
Katharina Fabricius, a coral reef ecologist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science and study co-author, told LiveScience that she has been diving and working on the reef since 1988 - and has watched the decline. "I hear of the changes anecdotally, but this is the first long-term look at the overall status of the reef. There are still a lot of fish, and you can see giant clams, but not the same color and diversity as in the past."
To get their data, Fabricius and her colleagues surveyed 214 different reefs around the Great Barrier Reef , compiling information from 2,258 surveys to determine the rate of decline between 1985 and 2012. They estimated the coral cover, or the amount of the seafloor covered with living coral.
They did find some local differences, with the relatively pristine northern region showing no decline over the past two decades.
Two pistols, shown in this RR Auction photograph, found on the bodies of famed Depression-era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after they were killed by a posse in 1934 have sold at auction for a total of $504,000at an auction in Nashua, New Hampshire on September 30, 2012.
The global helium shortage is having a real-world effect. For the first time since the race began in 1995, participants in the America's Challenge Gas Balloon Race in Albuquerque, N.M., are having to use hydrogen instead of helium.
The switch, according to KOAT.com, is largely due to economics. Even if the racers could get their hands on the tightly controlled helium, it has become so expensive that few can afford it. KOAT reports that it would cost around $12,000 to fill a racing balloon with helium, but only about $1,000 with hydrogen. The switch to hydrogen means that some racers with helium-only balloons won't be able to participate in the contest.
Around 30 percent of the world's helium supply comes from the Federal Helium Reserve in Texas. A blog from Popular Mechanics puts it like this:
Between 10 and 12 billion cubic feet of recoverable helium are expected to remain in the reservoir by the end of 2014, Walter Nelson, director of helium sourcing for Air Products and Chemicals Inc., told the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in May. "At current production rates of about 2 billion cubic feet per year, the reservoir could continue to produce helium for five to six more years."
Most Americans do not think Scientology is a true religion, more people would prefer to win an Olympic gold medal than a Pulitzer prize and celebrity endorsements do not carry much weight, according to a new poll released on Monday.
Seventy percent of respondents to the 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll said the controversial Church of Scientology, which is popular with Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta, was not a real religion, but 13 percent said that it was.
"It's a tribute to America's tradition of religious tolerance that Scientology is accepted throughout the country," the survey noted in its analysis of the results.
The poll also showed that brawn trumped brains with 40 percent of Americans saying they wanted an Olympic gold medal gracing their mantel, while 36 percent would prefer a Pulitzer prize and seven percent wanted an Oscar.
On the home front, the Obamas were the clear choice when it came to which family children might marry into, with 19 percent choosing the presidential family compared with 18 percent for the Kennedys and the 16 percent for the British royal family.
Wendy Weil, a beloved literary agent known for her low-key but determined style and for an eclectic clientele of groundbreaking and best-selling authors, from Alice Walker and Rita Mae Brown to Fannie Flagg and Mark Helprin, has died. She was 72.
A New York City native and graduate of Wellesley College, Weil was in publishing for 50 years, starting in the training program at Doubleday, then becoming an agent and eventually founding Wendy Weil Agency Inc. in 1986. Among the books she helped get published were Walker's "The Color Purple," Helprin's "Winter's Tale" and Andrea Barrett's "Ship Fever," a 1996 story collection that was dedicated to Weil and won the National Book Award.
Weil became an agent during a time of profound cultural upheaval, and in 1972 she helped get Walker's work published in the newly created Ms. magazine. Her clients included feminists, political activists and gay writers, among them Susan Brownmiller, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Paul Monette and June Jordan. She also represented the music critic Greil Marcus, essayist Philip Lopate and journalist James Fallows.
She was as likely to take on a commercial novel, such as Flagg's "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," as a work of serious nonfiction, such as Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Looming Tower."
Helprin, whose Republican politics contrasted with those of Weil's more liberal writers, marveled at how she could work with so many different kinds of people. He knew Weil for 40 years and said she was the rare person who had not a "nanogram of malice in her." She was also improbably organized; the kind of agent who kept piles of papers and other materials on her desk, yet somehow always found the document she was looking for.
Weil had presence. She stood tall, around 6 feet, and her face was often likened to Diane Keaton's. Her appearance was so youthful that when she signed up Brown in the 1970s, the author thought she could have passed for a teenager. Emily Forland, of the Weil agency, wrote in an email Monday that Weil had an "unusual personality for an agent." She was not fast-talking, or overbearing, but was instead described as "ladylike" or "quietly tenacious."
Before founding her own agency, Weil also worked at the New American Library, International Famous Agency and the Julian Bach Literary Agency.
Survivors include her husband of 28 years, the painter and illustrator Michael Trossman, and two stepsons.
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