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...what should be done set against the difficulty of actually doing it underscores the comic principle that animates Julie Hecht's first collection of fiction (Random House; 212 pages; $21). Her narrator ought to be happy, or at least fulfilled. She and her architect husband have an apartment in Manhattan, a house in East Hampton and a summer rental on Nantucket. She can afford a small army of expensive people -- psychiatrists, opticians, periodontists, endodontists, exercise trainers, floor renovators -- to minister to her and her possessions? needs. Yet in spite of all this -- or perhaps because...
...what should be done set against the difficulty of actually doing it underscores the comic principle that animates Julie Hecht's first collection of fiction (Random House; 212 pages; $21). Her narrator ought to be happy, or at least fulfilled. She and her architect husband have an apartment in Manhattan, a house in East Hampton and a summer rental on Nantucket. She can afford a small army of expensive people -- psychiatrists, opticians, periodontists, endodontists, exercise trainers, floor renovators -- to minister to her and her possessions? needs. Yet in spite of all this -- or perhaps because...
...much as possible, and the U.S. public has responded very well," one of her agents, Michael Carlisle, told TIME last year. Baiul drove a green Mercedes-Benz and bought herself a $450,000 house in Simsbury, Connecticut. She posed for sexy fashion shoots, learned to go clubbing in Manhattan, and exhibited an aversion to seat belts. Baiul is just...
With the news and mystery of his son's death, Cosby left the studio, climbed into his Range Rover and headed back to his town house in Manhattan. Mobbed by reporters camped outside his home, the actor refused all comment save one. He turned toward the cameras and microphones and said, "He was my hero...
What happened in Boulder on Christmas night was, among other things, proof that tragedy honors no boundaries. Of course we knew that, but one continues to hope. I read in a magazine once that Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl decided to leave Manhattan after their son Theo was brain damaged in a car accident; his nanny was pushing him across the street in a carriage when a taxi jumped the light. Deciding Manhattan was not a safe place to raise kids, they moved to a farmhouse 30 miles outside of London. A year later, their daughter Olivia died...