LBN-HOLLYWOOD INSIDER:
A final word on Warren Cowan, the Hollywood publicist who died at age 87.
Author Ray Robinson, who had known him since their grammar-school days at PS 165 on the Upper West Side, recalls that many years ago, over lunch in Manhattan, Cowan told him, "I just got great news."
Frank Sinatra, whom Cowan had represented for 30 years, had just fired him.
"It will prolong my life," said Cowan - and it did.
NEW SHOWS IN THE WORKS FROM "IDOL" CREATOR:
Could it be? The man behind the show seen in millions of TV homes each week is, himself, camera shy?
"American Idol" creator Simon Fuller admits that it's true.
But from his position securely offstage, Fuller can revel in the success of "Idol" as it reaches the May 21 climax of its seventh season.
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***Woody Allen's latest film touches on that classic male fantasy, a romantic threesome with two women.
Has Allen ever entertained the notion himself?
"You know, it's hard enough to get one person," Allen told reporters Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival, hours before the premier of his romantic comedy "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," starring Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem.
DID YOU KNOW? ***Author Dr. Seuss wrote the book "Green Eggs and Ham" because the editor made him a bet that he could not write a book which contained less than fifty words.
***During his entire lifetime, Herman Melville's timeless classic of the sea, "Moby Dick," sold only 3,715 copies.
***Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a fifty thousand-word novel, "Gadsby," without any word containing the letter "e."
***General Lew Wallace's best seller "Ben Hur" was the first work of fiction to be blessed by a pope.
***The book "Little Red Riding Hood" was banned in 1990 by two school districts in California because it contained a picture of a basket with a bottle of wine in it.
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