In the shadow of Bob and Nora

Carl Bernstein's name has been in the news repeatedly recently, but not for anything he's done, at least not lately. If you're not sure who Bernstein is, well, that's the problem.

Still, Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame keeps getting mentioned because his ex-wife (Nora Ephron) and one of his best friends (Bob Woodward) have both written best-selling books that are getting enough ink to fill a dozen barrels.

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Woodward, of course, just re leased the blockbuster "State of Denial," which skewers the Bush administration for being clueless about the Iraq War. Ephron's literary moment is a tad less self-impor tant. Her "I Feel Bad About My Neck" is a clever tome on the quirks of growing old.

Whenever a journalist writes about either Ephron or Woodward or their books, that author is compelled to mention the 62-year-old Bernstein. It's press by association.

For example:

"Rice's embarrassing flip-flop il lustrates once again the unique clout that Woodward still wields 3 1/2 decades after he and Carl Bern stein uncovered the Watergate scandal."

-- U.S. News & World Report

"Woodward, assistant managing editor at The Washington Post, be came a key historical figure when he and partner Carl Bernstein, working at the Post, uncovered the Watergate scandal."

-- National Public Radio

"It's hard to reconcile that the woman who can chirp on about purses and scarves and plastic surgery and the 'world-class cupcake' she found in Chicago was married to Carl Bernstein (who wrote) "All the President's Men."

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