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...been an agile phone warrior, and there are few signs that the breakup has put the core business into better shape to meet cutthroat competition. Anyone turning on a radio or TV, answering the phone or picking up the mail these days has to fend off endless pleas from AT&T and competitors--MCI and Sprint are the biggest--to switch his or her long-distance calls from one carrier to another. Or pleas not to switch. Or to switch back...
Fourteen years ago, Landon formed a support group in Hollywood called LADIES--Life After Divorce Is Eventually Sane--which has helped the exes of Gene Hackman, Leonard Nimoy and Jerry Lewis, among others, survive a breakup. "The public thinks that money makes it different for us," says Landon, "but I've seen firsthand first wives of Oscar winners who moved from mansions to little apartments"--or even, for a while, to their cars...
Many first wives, it seems, indulge in revenge fantasies. But though rage at a bitter breakup may be natural, it can be dangerous too. Manhattan psychotherapist Carole Fudin reports that one of her patients shredded her husband's wardrobe. Another crashed her car into his. A third woman came within inches of running her husband down, hitting the brakes just in time. Fortunately, none of them went as far as La Jolla, California, socialite Betty Broderick, who in 1989 gunned down her ex-husband and his new young wife, an assistant from his law office, in their bedroom...
...asked her mother Phyllis, an occupational therapist he had met when recovering from war wounds, for an "emergency" divorce. By then Dole, who was wedded to his seat in the Senate, was sleeping in the rec room and eating with the family only at Easter and Christmas. After the breakup, Robin lived with her mother and spent vacations from Virginia Polytechnic Institute with her father. When Dole looked back in 1993 on his time with Robin, he mused, "You try to catch up with some of those things in life that slip...
...three heads better than none? Those who needed counseling after the demise of the nerdily cool Talking Heads, take note: the band is back, but without the talker. Five years after David Byrne unilaterally announced the breakup of the band, JERRY HARRISON, TINA WEYMOUTH and CHRIS FRANTZ have formed the Heads and recorded an album, No Talking Just Head. "We called some of our friends to ask them to sing with us," says Frantz, whose friends include Debbie Harry and Michael Hutchence. "Everyone said yes except for David...