Much of the credit for the Cinderella publishing story goes to Robert Gottlieb, then the editorial genie in residence at Simon Schuster, now the mavin at Alfred Knopf.
For the list mavin with less esoteric tastes, Luongo offers his verdicts on the best available wines, foods, hotels, shops and salmon waters, as well as just about everything else .
And from nearly every movie mavin came the cackle of contumely: the arrogant director had committed career harakiri.