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Anna Jane Grossman

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Hailey Lustig and Stephen Prince

Met: July 2002

Engaged: Feb. 26, 2004

Projected Wedding Date: Sept. 5, 2004

Steve Prince has plenty of WASP credentials (Exeter ’92, Princeton ’96, owner of several Griffin and Howe rifles), but when it came to courting Hailey Lustig, he relied on the good old-fashioned Jewish guilt that sluices Read More

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Michelle Cutler and Peter Loureiro

Met: September 1998

Engaged: Jan. 3, 2004

Projected Wedding Date: June 21, 2006

Peter Loureiro, an actor who has built a career on his eerie resemblance to Christopher Walken (he has a one-man play called Citizen Walken and re-creates Annie Hall’s creepy brother Duane in the long-running Off Broadway Read More

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Stephanie Foster and Paul Virtue

Met: 1985

Engaged: Dec. 13, 2003

Projected Wedding Date: May 9, 2004

Let’s get physical … in perpetuity! Paul Virtue, 40, a personal trainer, plans to marry Stephanie Foster, 42, a yoga and acting teacher, in an intimate ceremony on the island of Maui.

The aptly named Mr. Read More

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Jennifer Cohen and Michael Oko

Met: Summer 1984

Engaged: July 20, 2003

Projected Wedding Date: June 5, 2004

Jennifer Cohen and Michael Oko grew up living parallel lives on the Upper West Side as the comely brown-haired, prominent-nosed, thin-lipped children of Jewish intellectuals. His family lived on 101st Street; hers on 100th. Both had Read More

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Michael Klarman and Katy O’Connor

Met: June 2000

Engaged: Oct. 11, 2003

Projected Wedding Date: Oct. 24, 2004

At Bentley College in Massachusetts (the alma mater of New York Times food fairy Amanda Hesser), Katy O’Connor thought that swarthy Michael Klarman was a mysterious Latino. “He hung out with a bunch of international people Read More

Andrea Jaffe Redux

In the aftermath of Tom Cruise’s decision to leave his publicist of 14 years, PMK/HBH’s Pat Kingsley, some movie-industry Kremlinologists find it interesting that Andrea Jaffe is getting back into show business.

Back in the 80′s and early 90′s, Ms. Jaffe-the sister of producer and former Paramount Communications chief executive Stanley Jaffe and daughter of Read More

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Matt Dojny and Sybil Young

Met: 1974

Engaged: Nov. 8, 2003

Projected Wedding Date: June 12, 2004

We’ve heard of “till death do us part,” but this is ridiculous! Sybil Young, 30, and Matt Dojny, 32, are holding their wedding ceremony at Green-Wood Cemetery, near the tombstones of Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed and Jean Read More