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During the Series, I was rooting for the Braves due to some vestige of national pride, even though Toronto is a few hundred miles closer than Atlanta to my home base of Manhattan. But whenever Winnie strode to the plate, all 6 feet 6 inches of him, I started cheering for the Canucks...
Rush's frequent attacks on feminists -- he has puckishly proposed, for example, that the issue of women in combat be resolved by forming 52 "PMS battalions" of women with the condition, led by "Sergeant Major Molly Yard" -- would seem to restrict his dating range in commie-lib Manhattan. Recently, though, he has been seeing Donna Dees, a p.r. director at CBS News. "She has her reputation to be concerned about," says Rush the male chivalrist, with no evident irony. "It's very embarrassing for a very liberal woman to go out with a conservative guy like me." Dees amiably allows...
Nonetheless, many men seem more aware of what constitutes a "hostile environment" in the workplace. "Before Anita Hill testified, I thought sexual harassment was if you touched someone," says Scott Leeds, 24, a C.P.A. in Manhattan. "Now I find myself watching what I say around women." Manhattan financial consultant Peter Cullum is dismissive. "The Anita Hill thing was a political battle," he says. "I don't see it as a transcendent event." Philip Corboy Jr., a Chicago lawyer, apparently did. "I listened to the hearings, listened to the women around me," he says. "The amazing thing to hear is that...
...graduated to stand-up after listening to comedy albums his father would bring home from his job at Commodore Music, a record label and store in Manhattan. For visits to Grandma's house on Thanksgiving, Mom packed a suitcase with costumes: the three Crystal Boys would do Ernie Kovacs' Nairobi Trio and take turns as Mel Brooks' 2,000-Year...
...with him on location for much of the shooting -- including the five hours each day getting into the makeup and the two hours getting out -- Buddy Young became as familiar as Billy. After he had finished another 20-hour day of filming at the boat pond in Manhattan's & Central Park, Janice came up behind him and protectively took one arm in hers and slipped the other around his shoulder. They looked for all the world like an old couple walking off into the sunset...