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...fittingly, since the memoir cycle began with Daddyji, a portrait of the elder Mehta. The Red Letters gets going when father and son write a story together. To Mehta's surprise, it becomes one of extramarital infidelity. Eventually it is revealed that the story is an account of an affair that his father had, years ago. He learns of the letters that his father exchanged with his lover. He understands what his father's affair did to his mother; he explores how his mother's anxieties influenced him as he was growing up. The estrangement from his past that spurred...
Strapped into a 50-lb. satin gown that took 1,000 hours and all 28 of Christian Dior's couture seamstresses to stitch, Slovenian model MELANIA KNAUSS, 34, wed real estate mogul DONALD TRUMP, 58, in a lavish affair Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla. It was a busy week of self-promotion leading up to the nuptials: Knauss showed off her mammoth wedding caparison in the February issue of Vogue, left, while her fianc?? made the rounds vaunting the new season of his reality show, The Apprentice, which he's considering turning into a Broadway musical. But when it came...
...truly miserable much more compelling. Landlocked Blues starts out chronicling a bad relationship and over the course of six riveting minutes meanders into an antiwar ballad. It is easily the best song written against the war in Iraq, as well as one of the better ones about a decomposing affair. Oberst tops himself with Lua, in which he sings about a lost girl in ways that are not particularly dramatic, just perfectly descriptive...
...SPENCER DRYDEN, 66, drummer for the San Francisco rock band Jefferson Airplane during the band's 1960s heyday; of cancer; at his home in Petaluma, Calif. The onetime jazz drummer provided the beat for such hits as White Rabbit and Somebody to Love, but his frequent grumbling and his affair with the group's singer Grace Slick--he regularly threatened to quit the band with Slick in tow--caused tensions, and he left in 1970. He went on to play in other bands, including New Riders of the Purple Sage, before retiring...
Worthingtons had lived in Truro for generations. In fact, one of the first rescue workers at the scene was Christa's cousin. Christa had moved there from New York City to care for her sick mother. She had had an affair with a local fisherman, which produced Ava. After her mother died, Christa decided to stay. In her shingled house on a hill, surrounded by a tangle of spindly trees, she had started a new life, although not necessarily a frictionless one. What with family strains and frustrated romances, there were plenty of obvious suspects. Semen was found on Worthington...