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With the accruing fruits of pop-culture success, Laudor moved to the tranquil New York suburb of Hastings-on-Hudson, to the River Edge apartment complex, with a view of the magnificent cliffs of the Palisades and the olive green waters of the Hudson. He lived with Caroline Costello, who had been deeply in love with him since their undergraduate years at Yale, and continued to love him in spite of his illness. They were ideal tenants. They were quiet neighbors. They were engaged to be married. She was talking to a rabbi about converting to Judaism, her lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Precarious Genius | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

Laudor was seen driving away from the apartment in Costello's black Honda Civic, dropping it off in Binghamton, N.Y., to catch a bus to nearby Cornell University in Ithaca. There a campus police officer saw him, disheveled and spattered with blood. His hand bore marks that, authorities say, were consistent with defensive wounds found on Costello. A small scuffle broke out as Laudor resisted arrest, and an officer suffered a cut on her lip. In Ithaca, Laudor confessed to attacking Costello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Precarious Genius | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...originality, insist its partisans. Here too there may be less than meets the eye. No one would expect any show to arrive without a heritage, and those involved with Seinfeld have always acknowledged its debt to earlier series. Seinfeld has said that the show emulates Abbott and Costello, for example. And Michael Richards' portrayal of Kramer is a frank homage to The Honeymooners' Art Carney. But Seinfeld's fans have always been rather smug when they declare that the show is "about nothing" and that its prime directive is "No hugging. No learning." The idea seems to be that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Goodbye Already | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...needs is a woman president," said Bettina H. Harrison, who earned a degree from the Graduate School of Education (GSE) in 1940, in a lighter moment during the club's discussion of its alma mater's future. "I nominate myself." "And I'll vote for you," laughed Marie M. Costello...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson and Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard's Appeals To Women Crowd Radcliffe's Mission | 4/14/1998 | See Source »

...Abbot and Costello were a hilarious moment in time. And if you can't rewind yourself a bit to watch them, at least give them credit for inventing "Seinfeld." But CP, properly incensed when his copy of "Go to Mars" wasn't rewound, warns you now: Be kind, or it's Bang, Zoom -- To the moon! Happy viewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Final Potato | 3/7/1998 | See Source »

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