Volume 29, Number 14 · September 23, 1982
Monkey Business
By Gore Vidal
Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street
by David McClintick
Morrow, 544 pp., $17.50
One morning last spring, I cast a vote for myself in the Hollywood hills; then I descended to the flats of Beverly Hills for a haircut at the barber shop in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where I found the Wise Hack, now half as old as time; his remaining white hairs had just been trimmed; he was being manicured, the large yellow diamond still sparkles on that finger which he refers to as a 'pinkie.' The Wise Hack's eyes have lost a bit of their sparkle but then eyes that have looked with deep suspicion into those of F. Scott Fitzgerald and of Y. Frank Freeman have earned their mica-glaze.
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