NIGHTTABLE READING

Who reads what between the sheets

Jack Lemmon(actor): Arctic Dreams, by Barry Lopez (Scribners). "I've always been fascinated by the Arctic. For the last twenty years my son, Christopher, and I have gone deep into Alaska, fishing and camping. It may not be the Arctic, but if s as close as we can get."

Sydney Biddle Barrows

(ex-madam): Hot Properties, by Rafael Yglesias (E. P. Dutton). "It's about people like me.

Ismail Merchant (film producer): Maurice, by E.M. Forster (W. W. Norton). "The characters attach themselves so strongly in your mind that you hate the idea of parting with them."