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...bedroom floor and walls, in Dolores' hair, on her face, on her toothbrush. Then Dolores began to fuss incessantly with her feet. The Levangs thought they had arranged, through the center, for an outside service called Happy Feet to provide pedicures. But Happy Feet never received the contract. (The center's operator, Alterra, based in Milwaukee, Wis., insists that its manager did fax it in.) For eight months no one cut Dolores' nails, which grew so long that they curled over the tops of her toes and began to dig into the skin underneath...
Diva means goddess. All right, the word is as goofily overblown for a female vocal star as "artist" is for any punk with a record contract. But as a job description, "diva" carries certain burdens. One must not only sing one's heart out; one must expose it to the harshest elements. What becomes a legend most? Suffering. A childhood of deprivation; liaisons with powerful, possibly dangerous men; career triumph soured by personal despair. A life of melodrama makes the diva more human, thus more godlike, to her fans. A catchy moniker helps: Callas...Garland...Lady Day...Whitney. The singer...
...CALLED TO THE BAR: Everybody is famous for something, it seems. And Toby Cecchini has the distinction of having revived the cocktail known as the Cosmopolitan. Naturally, that entitles him to a book contract. This week, PW reports that Broadway has bought the story of Cecchini's life behind the bar at New York's Odeon. They hope that the book "can make the kind of splash for bartending that Anthony Bourdain did for the restaurant kitchen in 'Kitchen Confidential...
However, college students as a whole were less likely to contract the disease than the general college-aged population...
...brief illusion of candor, the dignified drawing of the curtain, the ambient vapor of self-pity, the appeal to higher, more important issues at play, then long expanses of intricate policy wonkery punctuated by outbursts of humanitarian rhetoric....If we allowed you to flim-flam us into this contract, you'd pull the same stunt...