Last week, I showed you an e-mail that was circulating around Lowell House from a would-be Natalie Portman biography. And whaddya know—he reads my column! Unfortunately (and I know I’m gonna get another e-mail from him over this), a blockmate went to Amazon.com and found that not only does he have a sketchy resume (sample titles include: Dixie’s Dirty Secret: The True Story of How the Government, the Media, and the Mob Conspired to Combat Integration and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, Last Suppers: If the World Ended Tomorrow, What Would Be Your Last Meal? and Dixie Chicks: Down-Home and Backstage), but the reviews of his past work were less than glowing (i.e. “Throughout the book, Dickerson’s judgment is questionable.”)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:54:54 EDT
From: Portmanbook@cs.com
To: schainan@fas.harvard.edu
Dear Soman,
Well, I can’t promise to write a biography on you, but I can certainly put you in my book about NP—and that’s a start : ) I do have one complaint—and it is a minuscule one at that—but you misspelled my name. James Dickinson is the piano player on the Stones’ classic “Wild Horses” and the father of the drummer and lead singer of the North Mississippi Allstars. I’m just a simple scribe who lives in a van down by the river. Or something like that. Thanks for mentioning my email.
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