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...Last week Hugh Hefner celebrated his birthday at his $20 million Los Angeles mansion with 250 well-wishers, including his girlfriend of three years, Playboy Model Carrie Leigh, 22. Hefner, who spends his days working on an autobiography (with Yeager Co-Author Leo Janos), suffered a mild stroke 13 months ago, and he is taking care of himself a little more now. He has switched from Pepsi to Diet Pepsi, stashed away his once omnipresent pipes and uses an exercycle. "Not my style in the old days," Hef admits. But the fledgling senior citizen can tell the difference: "I feel...
This time students are being brought into the process. A mild-mannered and well-meaning administrator who deserves better than this degrading exercise in damage control has been sent to the Quadrangle to speak to residents, to find out which parts of the planned renovations they would value most, and to convince students not to expect too much...
...temblor, the quake for four seconds shook shelves and nerves from Santa Rosa to San Luis Obispo. Damage was minimal: some 21,000 people lost power briefly, but the San Francisco skyscrapers merely swayed, as they are designed to do. The tremor, along with another mild one the previous Saturday, was the latest in a series that has shaken the area in the past decade...
Outwardly, the show, which opened off Broadway last week, is a farce. In pursuit of his ambition, the mild-mannered host (John Cunningham) squabbles with his wife (Debra Mooney), snubs friends, forces drinks on the unwilling, tries to orchestrate the tempo of encounters, wages war against spontaneity. His every move is being judged by a remorselessly bitchy critic (Charlotte Moore) from a newspaper resembling the New York Times. Her very presence indicates that Gurney has metaphors in mind. Other hints include references to Oscar Wilde, whose epigrams the characters mimic, and a mounted portrait of Hawthorne, master of allegory...
Master of Ceremonies Christopher Reeve, the mild-mannered actor who donned tights for three "Superman" films, auctioned off items donated by businesses and celebrities to about 450 black-tied and bejeweled bidders at the posh Charles Hotel in Harvard Square...