Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant

Overnight Round Robin

• George Tenet has nabbed $4.5 mil for a tell-all book on intelligence. One chapter will reveal how Tenet had to explain what the CIA acronym stood for to President Bush
• Sarah will be all over this, but mystery novelist Joseph Hansen has passed on. Hansen created one of the mystery genre's first gay protagonists.
• Apparently, Powell's does, in fact, run out of books. They've undergone a four-day book buying spree to replenish their supply.
• If a second Bush term isn't bad enough to contemplate, Motley Crue is reuniting. Nikki Sixx elaborated on the reteaming with typically eloquent words, "We're growing fucking old and we want more fucking groupies before our fucking dicks fall off. Fuck yeah! Flash in the pan? No fucking way!"
• Is Joan Collins superficial? Yes. And she's still writing novels.
• Apparently, Judy Blume cries on book tours.