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Others quickly follow. Mack's discreet little affair with his secretary (Mary-Louise Parker) threatens to become indiscreet. His best friend, a heedless movie producer (Steve Martin), is permanently crippled in a mugging. His wife Claire (the luminous Mary McDonnell) discovers an abandoned baby on her morning run and, afflicted by empty-nest malaise (their son is growing up), begins a campaign to adopt the foundling. An earthquake thunders through town, a neighbor dies suddenly, and overhead the police helicopters endlessly circle, their probing searchlights constant reminders of disorder and imminent sorrow...
...Bugsy set, the lovers were so discreet that director Barry Levinson swears he was unaware of their relationship. Says Beatty: "We didn't want to place a burden on the people we were working with." Since the movie wrapped, they have awaited their child, who will be a girl, living quietly in Beatty's 37-acre aerie at the very tip-top of Mulholland Drive. Santo Pietro's is a half mile away, and it is no routine Italian joint. The Beverly Glen Centre has perhaps the greatest celebrity concentration in town. Beatty is a regular, as is Jack Nicholson...
...over to your local CCS Counter Spy Shop, a chain with retail outlets in New York City, Houston, Miami and Washington that specializes in high-tech snooping gear. According to Tom Felice, sales manager for the New York City store, clandestine recording devices are the biggest sellers. "The more discreet they are, the more popular," he says. "There are a lot of paranoid people out there." Enough for the industry to claim total sales last year of $200 million...
Corporation member and former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky praised Shenton's professionalism: "Bob Shenton has been one of Harvard's great civil servants: faithful, energetic, loyal and always discreet. He has forgotten more about Harvard than most of us will ever know, and I will greatly miss his steadying influence and good advice...
Corporation member and former Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky praised Shenton's professionalism: "Bob Shenton has been one of Harvard's great civil servants: faithful, energetic, loyal and always discreet. He has forgotten more about Harvard than most of us will ever know, and I will greatly miss his steadying influence and good advice...