Night-table Reading

Isabella Rossellini,

actress/model: Disturbing the Peace, by Vaclav Havel (Knopf). "I'm filming a movie in Prague and learning about the city and its people in this book by the president of the Czech Republic."

Victor Navasky,

editor in chief of The Nation: Un-American Activities, by Sally Belfrage (HarperCollins). "Imagine a subversive beauty queen who writes like a dream and you get an inkling of Sally Belfrage s memoir of the 50s. "

Georgette Mosbacher,

entrepreneur: Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, by William Safire (Norton). "It is interesting to read the great speeches to see how relevant they may be today."