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...Fosse gave Herb Gardner the nickname Whimsy. But Gardner, 58, reveals a far deeper writer in this story of a Jewish barkeep in Lower Manhattan who is sure that success will come from assimilation, endless self- reinvention and unstinting faith in the American Dream. The tale, narrated by a once rebellious son who is now himself a rebelled-against father, came from Seattle Repertory Theater to Broadway...
...introverted" at public functions, those days seemed long gone in September when Karan hobnobbed with Bill and Hillary Clinton at a Hollywood gathering. Still, Karan works too hard to spend much time on the social scene, or even at home in her sunny four-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side (lots of suede furniture and sweeping city views) or at her East Hampton beach house. When she travels to Italy several times a year, Karan spends more time looking at bolts of fabric than at Botticellis. Her world is fashion, and her place in that world is secure...
THIS HAS BEEN A BUMPER YEAR for Twyla Tharp. In January she staged a triumphant show of her quirky, inventive choreography at Manhattan's City Center. Next came a stint in Hollywood doing the dances for I'll Do Anything (to be released in 1993), and then the publication of her intelligent, candid-to-a-fault autobiography, Push Comes to Shove (Bantam; $24.50). That's enough for most busy artists, but energy is Tharp's signature both in choreography and in life. She has now renewed her partnership with Mikhail Baryshnikov for a 24-city national tour that started...
...admit it. I'm Jewish. I don't go to Hillel; I eat my share of shrimp; and I listen to Wagner. And my last name is as goyishe as it gets. But I'm Jewish. I live in Manhattan; I can quote Woody on command; and I observe (Jews never "celebrate") in varying degrees of intensity the high points of the Jewish ritual calendar...
...growing up in Manhattan, Kansas, (a.k.a. The Little Apple--seriously) I had spent lots of hours packed with other Wildcats fans like a sardine in a local basketball field house watching Kansas State University basketball games...