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...unusual for members of my class to marry while at school especially if we had a boyfriend who was going overseas. Sprouting an engagement ring before graduation was an enviable mark of accomplishment, and several members of our class immediately exchanged academic gowns for wedding gowns, presumably to live happily ever after. I married Newton Press '48, who was in the naval officer training program at Harvard, at the end of my junior year...
They must have been a spirited couple in their day. Mira Sorvino, whose former boyfriend Quentin Tarantino was recently embroiled in a wee bar punch-up, had her own little confrontation at Cannes. For some reason Sorvino decided to attend a press event for a Johnny Depp-Roman Polanski movie. After it was fini, Sorvino was introduced to movie critic Jami Bernard, who wrote a biography of Tarantino. The Oscar winner angrily demanded to know why Bernard subsequently interviewed Tony Tarantino, her old flame's biological but very estranged father, for Premiere. "It was a cruel and immoral thing...
...years after it begins. But this information is strictly between author and reader; the characters, realistically enough, are left in the dark. As Ruth begins imagining her fourth novel, about an unhappy love affair, she hits on a rule that clearly guides her creator: "The reader should anticipate the boyfriend's awfulness, but the woman writer doesn't see it coming." Reading A Widow for One Year is largely a matter of watching characters walk or trip into unsuspected inevitabilities...
...Factor number two--my boyfriend plays in Belgium, and spending time with him is a huge factor because we've been apart for five years," she said...
...incentive for Feaster to spend time in Europe is twofold--North Carolina State graduate Danny Strong, her boyfriend since high school, is currently playing professional basketball in Belgium. Feaster also has not dismissed the prospect of playing professionally in Europe herself during the WNBA's offseason...