Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

According to the authoritative New York Post’s “ Page Six ,” Jon Peter’s auto-biography “Studio Head” was a case of premature ejaculation. Leaks from the book proposal reached all the usual sounding boards before Peters withdrew “Studio Head.” "Somehow this proposal has become a kind of Holy Grail of gossip,” Peter is reported saying in the Post, “and I have become Hollywood's 'Man Who Knows Too Much.' I have been besieged by potential lawsuits and threatened litigation by some of the most important figures in the world of show business. What's worse . . . is the fact that I consider all these people my friends . . . I want my book to be a celebration of, never an attack upon, the remarkable people I have known and worked with . . .” Vanity Fair, printed some choice excerpts from Peter’s celebration of his friends. “In the late 60s,” according to Vanity Fair , “ Peters caught his second wife, actress Lesley Ann Warren, in bed with Warren Beatty and chased the actor...