In Virgin, Hanne Blank reminds us that the idea of virginity exists for no other animal species. And what would our world be like if for us, too, the idea simply did not exist? No Donna Martin, struggling to keep her legs firmly shut through seven seasons of 90210. Steve Carell might still be on Read More
It was a hot July day, and I was lazily sipping iced coffee when I picked up the phone to hear my mother fighting back tears. Her moment had come. She’d gotten jury duty.
When my mom—a law-abiding, Annie Hall–turns-savvy-business-woman type—was chosen to be on the jury for the recent John Gotti Jr. case, my Read More
It was a hot July day, and I was lazily sipping iced coffee when I picked up the phone to hear my mother fighting back tears. Her moment had come. She’d gotten jury duty.
When my mom—a law-abiding, Annie Hall–turns-savvy-business-woman type—was chosen to be on the jury for the recent John Gotti Jr. case, Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
