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...point, I was called the Queen of Plastic Surgery. I did bring it out of the closet. After I talked about all my tucks and jobs, people opened up about theirs. I would be sitting on the couch on the Tonight Show, and someone would lean over and say, "I just had my eyes done" or whatever. I became the clearinghouse for everyone, because I knew all the answers. The surgeons loved me. I loved demystifying it. Of course, I wasn't an advocate exactly. I think people can get addicted, and it can be abused. But it can make...
...Monica, initially spooked by this shiny-faced, irrevocably pleasant simulacrum of a boy, comes to appreciate David's virtues; he has no flaws, except that he is not "orga" (organic) but "mecha" (mechanical)--and not Martin. From a closet she retrieves an old supertoy, a stuffed bear named Teddy, who becomes David's most faithful companion. Soon David is calling her Mommy. Bereft of her only natural child, she cradles this artificial one. Bathed in Nativity light, mother and child melt into a Pieta...
...LAFFOON, who, after less than a year as Heche's paramour, asked the actress and ex-girlfriend of Ellen DeGeneres to be his wife. According to Heche's manager, she has accepted. The couple met last summer when Heche was directing a documentary about DeGeneres' first out-of-the-closet stand-up comedy tour; Laffoon was the cameraman. Heche has frequently reminded the press that she was not gay prior to meeting DeGeneres, and she did have a two-year relationship with Steve Martin, who, according to several sources, is not a lesbian. No date has been...
...pull out my favorite blue shirt. Alarms whir, strobes flash. My closet isn't happy. I've worn this shirt three times in the past two weeks. Whoops...
...rare currencies commanding million-dollar price tags. Numismatists have a powerful lobby on Capitol Hill, and coin dealers have been fighting hard to repeal a 1981 law barring rare coins from being included in IRAs. No, you couldn't turn that penny jar you've got stored in the closet into an IRA. But if you've got a coin broker making money for you in a nationally recognized coin-trading network, Breaux's measure would let you sock those profits away in a tax-deferred account...