Lipton

Lipton, Peggy: BREATHING OUT, New York St. Martin's Press 2005
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From Publishers Weekly Lipton's story is cliched, and her writing's clunky to boot. But that's no matter, because the main reason readers will pick this book up is for its pages on the sexual encounters Lipton--who played the hip chick of TV's undercover Mod Squad in the late 1960s and early '70s--had with Paul McCartney and Elvis. Born in 1947 and raised on Long Island, Lipton was a model at 15 and had started acting classes by the time her family moved to California a few years later. Hanging out in Hollywood, Lipton soon became a mod version of the "it" girl. After ridding herself of her virginity, her first goal was to seduce McCartney. That accomplished, she slept with a series of alcoholic or abusive married men, meanwhile experimenting with a variety of drugs. Her psychedelic adventures with actor Terence Stamp were quintessential Haight-Ashbury; she even had a fling with Elvis: "He was a great kisser," she allows, "but that was about it." In 1974, she married musician Quincy Jones, who didn't want her to work. A full-time mom until their marriage fell apart, Lipton then struggled with depression and debilitating fatigue, finding strength from her guru, Gurumayi, from acting work and from her two beloved daughters. There's a lot of '60s and '70s color--joints smoked in the bathroom, an interracial marriage, a trip to an Indian ashram--but it all boils down to an old-fashioned kiss-and-tell. 16 b&w photos. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist What do Paul McCartney, Sammy Davis Jr., and Elvis Presley have in common? Peggy Lipton had sex with all of them. Well, Elvis was a little too pumped with drugs to really close the deal. Other high (and low) lights for this nice blond Jewish girl? Stardom on The Mod Squad, marriage to Quincy Jones, motherhood, spiritual journeys, and a return to television after the marriage broke up. Lipton is a virtual Zelig, in the background whenever stars gather from the 1970s on. But in this surprisingly readable memoir, she and her cowriters have managed to make her various encounters into more than mere name-dropping, with each short chapter becoming a small slice of her life. Alternating between tough and neurotic postures, <P> Lipton describes her childhood sexual abuse, her drug use, the experience of raising biracial children, and in an extremely abrupt ending, her recent bout with colon cancer. Many readers will not have thought about Lipton for years, yet her story holds our attention both for the life it chronicles and the changing times it encompasses. Published at twenty five dollars. New book Jacket Hardcover 6-1/2 x 9-1/2"

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Lipton: Lipton Soup Mix Magic [Hardcover] by, LW Press 2001 ISBN: 1412720672
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Green, Tim: The Letter of the Law, Warner November 1, 2001 ISBN: 0446609951
,,Casey Jordan is a successful Texas criminal defense attorney who likes to take on the kinds of cases that grab headlines and CNN interviews. Her ambition is stoked when she gets an opportunity to represent her former law professor in a capital murder case.\tEric Lipton has been accused of the mutilation death of a young law student with whom he was sexually involved. Although the evidence points to his guilt, Casey is confident that she can get him off and certain that he is innocent. It's a promising setup for a legal thriller, but a seemingly unrelated murder in the novel's opening pages will nag at readers. By the time the relationship between the two crimes is teased out, the solution to the first crime seems like an anticlimax. \n\nLipton is a truly evil man. Casey is not particularly likable either: her hardscrabble background has propelled her into a sterile, loveless marriage to a wealthy man, and her childhood dream of defending indigent clients now seems like a remnant of youthful idealism. The novel's more interesting figures are Donald Sales, the law student's father, a traumatized Vietnam veteran whose grief and rage fuels the narrative, and Bob Bolinger, an Austin cop who believes that Lipton is a serial killer responsible for other, similar crimes across the country. Like Lipton's pathology, which is unveiled long after his guilt is proven to the reader's (if not the jury's) satisfaction, Casey's change of heart--about her client, her husband, and her ideals--is late and lukewarm. Before it occurs, Tim Green has a chance to showcase his heroine's courtroom skills and illustrate why she's among the fastest legal guns in the Lone Star state. A workmanlike addition to a popular genre, Letter of the Law won't keep you up at night, but it's a satisfying hammock read on an Indian summer afternoon. --Jane Adams

Condition;Good ,Paperback ,Casey Jordan is a successful Texas criminal defense attorney who likes to take on the kinds of cases that grab headlines and CNN interviews. Her ambition is stoked when she gets an opportunity to represent her former law professor in a capital murder case.\tEric Lipton has been accused of the mutilation death of a young law student with whom he was sexually involved. Although the evidence points to his guilt, Casey is confident that she can get him off and certain that he is innocent. It's a promising setup for a legal thriller, but a seemingly unrelated murder in the novel's opening pages will nag at readers. By the time the relationship between the two crimes is teased out, the solution to the first crime seems like an anticlimax. \n\nLipton is a truly evil man. Casey is not particularly likable either: her hardscrabble background has propelled her into a sterile, loveless marriage to a wealthy man, and her childhood dream of defending indigent clients now seems like a remnant of youthful idealism. The novel's more interesting figures are Donald Sales, the law student's father, a traumatized Vietnam veteran whose grief and rage fuels the narrative, and Bob Bolinger, an Austin cop who believes that Lipton is a serial killer responsible for other, similar crimes across the country. Like Lipton's pathology, which is unveiled long after his guilt is proven to the reader's (if not the jury's) satisfaction, Casey's change of heart--about her client, her husband, and her ideals--is late and lukewarm. Before it occurs, Tim Green has a chance to showcase his heroine's courtroom skills and illustrate why she's among the fastest legal guns in the Lone Star state. A workmanlike addition to a popular genre, Letter of the Law won't keep you up at night, but it's a satisfying hammock read on an Indian summer afternoon. --Jane Adams

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Green, Tim. THE LETTER OF THE LAW. [New York, NY]: Warner Books, 2000
Tall 8vo - over 9" - 9 3/4" 0-446-52299-6 First edition (with "First Printing" stated on copyright page and with full printing number line beginning with "1"). Tall 8vo (6 1/8" x 9 1/4"). 341 pages. Two-tone boards. Black paper-covered spine, gilt spine lettering, brown paper-covered boards (hardcover binding). Dust jacket design by Tony Greco and Associates. Book weighs 1 lb., 5 oz.<p>"Green's thriller opens with two grisly murders, seemingly unrelated. The second killing, that of a female law student named Marcia Sales, becomes the prominent case. A respected law professor, Eric Lipton, is accused of the killing. Dissatisfied with the lawyer he initially chooses, he turns to Casey Jordan, a former student. Casey, a farm girl who has managed to escape her roots by making a name for herself as a lawyer and marrying into money, takes the case without hesitation, confident in both Lipton's assertions of innocence and her own ability to persuade the jury of his innocence, despite the evidence to the contrary. Casey is successful, but Lipton's whispered confession of guilt just before the jury reads his acquittal causes Casey to second-guess herself. Was his confession a sick joke, or has she helped set a killer free? When a similar killing occurs and suspicion falls on Donald Sales (father of the murdered Marcia Sales), Casey begins to investigate. When she finds that the killer has struck before and almost certainly will again, Casey must decide how far she is willing to bend the law to see justice done. Green keeps the pages turning, but the revelation of the killer early on takes some of the suspense from the narrative. Overall, it's a fun read for legal thriller fans."- From "Booklist" review by Kristine Huntley.<p>"When a 22-year-old law student is found brutally murdered, her father comes undone - and rightfully so. In a fit of rage, Donald Sales accuses Eric Lipton, his daughters arrogant and brilliant professor, of killing her. Then, after an article of the victims blood-soaked clothing is found in Professor Liptons possession, he hires attorney Casey Jordan to represent him. To Jordan, Sales violent history makes him a more logical suspect, and the skillfull attorney discredits him on the witness stand. As the jury finds Lipton not guilty, Casey is stunned when the professor whispers to Jordan that he did it. Weeks later, as more bodies turn up, Jordan must decide whether to uphold her legal oath to protect her client.... or join forces with an unlikely ally in bringing a demented killer to justice. Tim Greens latest novel, Double Reverse, was published in Warner hardcover in 8/99, and it received universally terrific praise. The Red Zone (Warner, 1998) received national praise in USA Today, People, and Library Journal. His backlist titles Ruffians, Titans, and Outlaws were published in fall 1999 in paperback. The hardcover edition of The Dark Side of the Game (Warner, 1996) appeared on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller lists, has more than 100,000 copies in print, and was featured on 60 Minutes."- From publisher.<p>"Green (Double Reverse) scores big with a thriller that takes place in Texas and is peopled by well-developed characters. Casey Jordan, a rising star in the legal profession, discovers in traumatic ways the difference between justice as practiced in the courts and right and wrong in real life. Jordan helps clear Eric Lipton, a law professor at the University of Texas, of the charge of disemboweling and murdering Marcia Sales. An instant before the jury foreman reads the verdict, Lipton whispers his guilt to Jordan. After the trial, suspicion rests on Donald Sales, the victim's father. Distraught with grief, hating Lipton, and humiliated by Jordan's trial accusation of incest, Sales abducts Jordan to teach her some of the pain his daughter suffered. Guessing that Lipton is a serial killer, Police Sergeant Bob Bolinger enlists the help of the FBI. Humanizing Lipton's monstrousness would have given him more depth, but this is still highly recommended for general collections."- From "Library Journal" review by D. Michelle Foyt, Russell Library, Middletown, CT.<p>About The Author: "Tim Green practices law in upstate New York. He was class valedictorian at Syracuse University, where he also received his law degree with high honors. He's heard regularly around the country on NPR and on Fox sports' NFL coverage. He lives in upstate New York.".

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