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Book Expo: Breakfast with Alec Baldwin, Philippa Gregory, Magic Johnson, Andre Dubus III

2:15 PM Sat, May 31, 2008 |  | 
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breakfast.jpgI popped in -- just a bit late -- to a breakfast panel with Alec Baldwin, Magic Johnson, Philippa Gregory and Andre Dubus III this morning. Caught just enough of Ms. Gregory to understand why she packed 'em in at Arts & Letters Live in Dallas earlier this year. She's devastatingly funny, repeatedly using Mr. Baldwin as a foil as she spoke about marriage, love and some of the acrimonious marriage habits of the royalty she writes about. Each dig got increasingly louder laughs from the audience of several hundred.

"Would you like to take a break for a moment?" he suggested after one snarky aside.

"If you have any objections," she returned, "Mr. Johnson will represent me outside."


Mr. Baldwin, whose marital issues are well-known and whose was promoting his book, A Promise to Ourselves: Fatherhood, Divorce, and Family Law, later won laughs when he replied, "I'm a big fan of marriage for love. It's the loathing of divorce I'm concerned with."

She did fail in her attempt to spin a basketball on her finger in tribute to Mr. Johnson.

"I can't spin either," the basketball legend said. "So you're OK."



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