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...They're calling in to drive-time radio stations, like Raleigh, North Carolina's WRAL-FM, which solicited listeners' divorce horror stories and revenge fantasies--and found its switchboards lighted up like Times Square. And they're throwing parties, like the one last week for Patti Kenner's 52nd birthday, in which 60 of her female friends gathered for cocktails, then adjourned to a Manhattan theater to hoot and laugh their way through all 105 minutes of The First Wives Club. Even though Kenner and most of her guests are still happily married to their first husbands, they found plenty...
...Birthday girl Patti Kenner also cheers the movie's celebration of female camaraderie--and charity. In lieu of accepting birthday gifts, she asked friends to contribute to a women's organization. Peg Yorkin, who used some of her more than $50 million divorce settlement from producer Bud Yorkin to found the Feminist Majority Foundation in 1987, says, "Feminism gives women options they probably didn't have 50 years ago. Women who might not be as fortunate as I am at least can usually do something." Marilyn Kane, for instance, has become a counselor for the Coalition for Family Justice...
...Spall), whom she raised but to whom she has not spoken in two years. "Cynthia's really very capable," notes Blethyn, "although not the brightest." So when Hortense shows up, it is a shock and an opportunity. Secrets will be revealed, and lies made truth, at Roxanne's 21st-birthday party, held by Maurice and his stressful wife Monica (Phyllis Logan). Catharsis is achieved a mite speedily, but the family has earned so much pity and goodwill, we want them all just to have...
...though Gates celebrated his 46th birthday on Monday, his biggest present this year came a few months early when the last "giant" on his list--sociologist William Julius Wilson--defected to Harvard this spring...
That is only part of the story. The 3.8 million seniors who have celebrated their 85th birthday already constitute the fastest-growing segment of the population. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2030, this group, inelegantly dubbed the old-old, will number 9 million, then will swell to 19 million in the following two decades. (Other demographers predict as many as 48 million.) Moreover, while most experts cap average life expectancy at around 85, a research team in Denmark maintains that America's current crop of newborns will live on average to 100. "It will be 80 years before...