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Well, I have stored my cheesehead with sorrow and disgust until next year. Before "the tragedy and during mourning, I communicated with John"Goat" Gaudioso via e-mail about being a Packer fan. Goat is IBM's "worldwide capital coordinator" of something and still plays poker with kwabena Gyasi-Twum. Goat has three children, 6, 4, and 2, and a lovely wife, which amazes me. Just kidding. Goat asked that I not print anything else he said, which, frankly, was nothing but pathologically hateful things about Reggie White and John Elway Goat also prompted a group e-mail frenzy with Jay Miller, who is another bonafide cheesehead, unlike Goat, and with Chuck Cairns, M.D., and his charming-sounding wife, Monica, who live in some cesspool called Denver, where the football fans loot and pillage when they are victorious. Oh—and Goat saw Alike Rafter on Broadway playing the piano for Gypsy. I think Mike is the musical director of the show.
Stephan Dweck's marriage to Lisa Chapman Jones in Woodbridge, Conn., was announced in The New York Times in August 1997. Ms. Jones is a staff writer for TheVillage Voice and the author of an essay collection, Bulletproof Diva. She is a graduate of Yale and NYU film school. Stephan is a lawyer in New York and author of several books of humor. I bet their life is unusual. Adrienne Lotson used to tell me stories of informal dates with Stephan in which he would call the waiter over and say angrily, "Why was I seated with this woman? I don't even know her, and I certainly don't want to dine with her. Puhlease move her to another table."
Speaking of happy families, NancyChallener Williams and her husband, David, recently adopted a baby boy, David Challener Williams, from Russia. Not to be outdone, Mark Zimmerman was named vice president of strategic planning and human resources for the United States and Canada for Reader's Digest. In Wellesley, Mass., Ted Everett was named direct marketing manager for the Babson-United Co., a family-owned finance company serving do it-yourself investors. Ted has worked for them since 1983 as an investment consultant, a securities analyst, and a marketing analyst. So, Ted, my husband wants to know how I can get rich without working or getting divorced and remarrying money. MaryConway joined New England's largest PR firm, McDermott/ O'Neill & Associates, as managing director of account services in Boston. Mary was formerly executive vice president at Cone Communications, worked at Polaroid, and was a partner at Kekst and Co. in New York, presumably not simultaneously.
Finally, I know Bernie mentioned Nancy kricorian's recently published novel, Zabelle, but I want to add something. First, I've just read it, and it's wonderful! Second, Nancy is also an award-winning published poet; has taught at Yale, Columbia, and Barnard; has two daughters; and owns a literary scouting company for European publishers. Third, I went to The Ice Storm with
my husband, and, by inviolate custom, we sat in the empty theater with three or four other complete dorks watching every last credit roll. We feel we owe all those underfamous and underpaid key grips something. Anyway, this time, to my astonishment, I actually recognized a name. It said something like, "Special thanks to Nancy Kricorian Location Services." I couldn't believe it. My husband thought I had illusions of vicarious college-acquaintance grandeur, although he admitted there were probably not two people in the world with that name. Then I got the press release on Nancy's book and discovered that husband James Schamus wrote the screenplay for the movie. I knew being a movie credits dork would pay off someday. I only wish it were in monetary terms.
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