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Frank McCourt is wearing an orange button-down shirt, gray pants and a blue blazer--all standard fare for a featured author, especially when you're the speaker at a Graduate School of Education Fundraiser. McCourt, looks, unmistakably, nice. Actually, he looks like he could be my grandfather, without much of a problem. He's even got the sneakers, shining out amid a sea of loafers and lace-ups in the affluent audience...
...decor itself, though, is uniformly bizarre. Motorcycles and car engines hang from the ceiling, and in the middle of the otherwise conservative button-down shirt rack, a huge silver pegasus statue rears its head...
...name Greenpeace immediately conjures up images of scruffy activists blocking railroad tracks to stop nuclear-waste shipments or challenging whaling ships in rubber rafts. So it's surprising to find in the ranks of this radical green group a button-down business tycoon named Malcolm Walker, who heads Iceland, a British retail food chain with 760 stores and annual revenues of $2.7 billion. But Walker, 53, whose personal fortune of $40 million puts him on the British "Rich List" compiled by the Sunday Times of London, sees nothing incongruous about his consorting with environmental militants. "I wear a suit...
...first thing I learned about being a television writer is that even though I dress badly, it is not nearly bad enough. My button-down shirts and dress shoes were just asking to be made fun of by the all-male writing staff. So unfamiliar were these people with leather soles, they kept referring to my "wood shoes...
...tall guy in button-down blue shirt stops next to us. "Hi," he says. "You guys want to dance?" We are already dancing, so the question seems a little unnecessary. We continue to dance, with him now beside us. "I hate dancing," he says, now confusing us a bit. "I suck at it." He speaks the truth, so neither of us argue. We all stop dancing, and he tries to engage in conversation, which is difficult because we can't hear a word he says--the Backstreet Boys are just too loud. His name is Chris...