Scribner in-store author celebrity breakdown 40 yrs ago:
Nice: Gloria Swanson, Marc Connelly, Donald Sutherland, Michael York, Faye Dunaway, Ansel Adams, Sophia Loren, John Gielgud etc
Not Nice: Rex Harrison, Claus Von Bulow
Horrible: Isaac Asimov
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Asimov was notoriously, um, handsy.
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Nothing compared to Arthur C. Clarke.
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Are you referring to the Sri Lankan rumors, or something else?
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The feeling I get is that he's long dead and not a whole lot read anymore.
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In part, I gather, because the books' sexism puts off a lot of present-day readers.
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Not as far as I can see, except for less of a tendency to make excuses for his writing.
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