![]() When attending promotional luncheons with fellow authors, he would make a point of reading their latest work. Wolfe was both a literary upstart, sneering at the perceived stuffiness of the publishing establishment, and an old-school gentleman who went to the best schools and encouraged Michael Lewis and other younger writers. An ingenious phrase maker, he helped brand such expressions as “radical chic” for rich liberals’ fascination with revolutionaries and the “Me” generation, defining the self-absorbed baby boomers of the 1970s. ![]() His hyperbolic, stylized writing work was a gleeful fusillade of exclamation points, italics and improbable words. ![]() ![]() Milt Larsen, Co-Founder of The Magic Castle in Hollywood, Dies at 92 ![]()
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