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Four-year-old Kevin White of Richmond, Calif., is enjoying that all-American event, a birthday party at McDonald's. Wearing a Ronald McDonald birthday hat and clutching a fistful of French fries, he gets ready to whisk down the slide in the restaurant's kiddy playground, while his mother Cynthia stands by with envy. "One day I hope that Kevin will appreciate my cooking," she says. "But for now, I can't even compete with a Big Mac and fries...
Even the invitations were cryptic. Printed on shocking-pink paper, they read, "Please come to Madonna and Sean Penn's birthday party Aug. 16. Please be prompt or you'll miss the wedding." Those on the select mailing list understood the reference: the bride would turn 27 on her wedding day, and the bridegroom 25 the day after. The card instructed guests to phone a special number to find out where the supersecret event would take place. Not even the chic caterers knew where to deliver their delights (pizza and curried oysters, Madonna's culinary favorites) until the very last...
Most of Wolff's characters have lifestyles, not lives. Ted, Mitch and Bliss celebrate Helen's 30th birthday with cocaine, love circles and chatter like "I was into a serious good-works routine back then. I wanted to be a saint," and "I used to paralegal with this guy in the city and he decided that he couldn't live without some girl he was seeing." The story is called Leviathan, and it concludes with a Me-generation version of Moby Dick, an insipid recollection of a California whale watch."'He was a monster,' Helen said. 'I mean that...
Just another night of Rocky Horror. Each Friday and Saturday night, at a couple of hundred houses across North America, the faithful gather in a strange and bracing ritual. A high-camp priest of an emcee announces weekly events and milestones: a birthday, say, or a new record for consecutive attendance. The "virgins" in the congregation--those making their first visit--are baptized with incantatory catcalls. Then, in the velvet darkness of the blackest night, rises the communal cry: "Let there be lips!" And lo, there are lips, big ruby-red ones on the theater screen, intoning an invitation...
...birthday parties as well. On Halloween Sal, Ron and 2,600 Rockyites--some from as far away as Montreal, London, Sacramento, Winston-Salem, N.C., and the Bronx--made a pilgrimage to Manhattan's cavernous Beacon Theater for a tenth-anniversary bash. Sal presented sham Oscars to each of seven R.H.P.S. actors, who tried not to look as if they had wandered into a Star Dreck convention. The audience judged a costume contest: dozens of odd fellows dressed as their favorite Rocky characters. Everyone had a ball. Richard O'Brien, dressed for the occasion in a cunning black tube top with...