Nice Girls Do - Get Sued

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From the beginning of the affair in 1976, Margolis recalls, "our experience together was very emotionally and romantically rewarding . . . We began thinking, "What a wonderful thing to write up." The transcripts indicate that during sex, Kassorla came up with erotic images that appear in her book as patient case histories: visions of a stained-glass window, and dancing lollipops that magically turn into male genitals.

Margolis has more than transcripts to make his case. Nancy Hardwick, a freelance editor who was hired in May of 1978 to organize and edit a Kassorla-Margolis book, will testify. Says she: "I was definitely working for both of them." Margolis also has one of the tapes (Kassorla has the rest). He says that the material embarrasses him, but he will play it in court if he has to. Legal proceedings are set to start April 26, with a hearing on Margolis' attempt to stop sales of the book. Kassorla's lawyers promise a "simple explanation" that will prove she is the sole author of Nice Girls Do. At least she will be able to relive those lyrical days when passion and profit were one. "It doesn't cost me anything to be with you," she says in one transcript, though that remains to be seen. "You enhance and make it so easy. . . The way you embrace me, the noises you make: Oh, it's just like music being with you."