Hey, did anyone else see the article about Joyce Maynard in the New York Times? (It was published in the Sydney Morning Herald today, with a byline that it was from the NYT - `Leech Women Strike Again' by Maureen Dowd) I was going to transcribe it here but I think I'll wait to hear if everyone else has seen it or not. Basically the gist of it was a comparison of Monica Lewinsky and Maynard as self-seeking go-getters who rather than shouldering at least some of the blame that is due to them, are limelight hopping and feasting on the blood of the co-commitants of their crimes - the framework being a comparison to a 50's B movie `LEECH WOMAN! She drains men of their love and lives!' (: It wasn't long but it was quite interesting and had a few direct quotes from the Salinger letters that are being auctioned - `The typed and handwritten letters .... [go] from wanting to meet her to meeting her, from asking her to `stop-Salingering me' to `Jerry S' to `XXX, J' to `It's late, Kiddo, and I'm tired' I should at least transcribe the final paragraph: `There are those that say that these women were victims of older men, and so have a right to revenge. But experiencing the ordinary brutality of love does not make one a victim. It makes one an adult. Or should.' Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 @ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest