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...Walken. And Walken leads. Travolta, walking in the pumps of Divine in the earlier film and Harvey Fierstein on Broadway, plays Edna Turnblad, the beyond-zaftig Baltimore mom of a '60s teenage girl who dreams of appearing on a local TV dance show. (Walken is Edna's incorrigibly besotted husband...
...waitress came rushing out of the diner in Manchester, N.H., with a guest book for Joe Biden to sign and stayed to tell a story. Her name was Michelle Griffin, and she had just returned to work after being ill for two years. Her husband was working two jobs. They were putting two daughters through college. They had no health insurance. "There were times when I thought we wouldn't make it ..." she said, and tears filled her eyes. Biden put his hands on her shoulders, and his forehead on hers-an awkward but touching gesture-and she shuddered into...
...weeks after moving into an apartment in Mumbai, Veena Gowda found herself summoned to a meeting of the building committee to answer for her "indecent behavior." It turned out that her neighbors had been scandalized by the fact that the twentysomething woman was living not with a husband, but with a roommate. Not only that, she would often come home later - sometimes close to midnight! - and was known to have attended the occasional jazz concert. "Someone or other's always watching," says Gowda, now 35, a women's rights lawyer, and still single. "The neighbors don't really give...
...trials and tribulations that come with flying solo. One insight: Women in India must often live a double life to avoid unwanted attention. "Some had to lie to get out of the house. There was one [subject] who was divorced; she was constantly asked about what happened, where her husband was and had to keep making up stories about why he wasn't there," says Srinivasan. "They were just not comfortable giving out the whole truth because of how others might react. There are some people who have [been] totally honest and have had good experiences, but others just avoid...
...intention to "buy a picture a day," but Guggenheim was no dippy dilettante. Around her she collected the best committee of art advisers imaginable, from Marcel Duchamp to Samuel Beckett, who urged her to focus on the contemporary. It was back in New York, where she and then husband Max Ernst had decamped to escape the war, that she hit the jackpot. One of the young artists she set her sights on was a custodian and art preparator at her uncle's then-budding museum. She put him on a monthly stipend and encouraged him to explore his uniquely abstract...