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Warnings won't scare off the folks in Hollywood. "I live in a town completely devoted to vanity," says writer-actress Carrie Fisher, 45, who has been Botoxing for five years. "It irons out the wrinkles. You'd never know I was manic-depressive." Danny Bonaduce, 42, a child actor (The Partridge Family) turned co-host of The Other Half, was accompanying his wife to a Botox session when her doctor asked him if he wanted some. "Three days after I did it, Dick Clark said to me, 'You look 10 years younger!' With Botox, people can't really tell...
...Patty Reimerdes, 50, a divorced mother of two from Queens, N.Y., had her first Botox procedure last week and pronounces herself pleased. Reimerdes says she doesn't mind being 50: "I just don't want to look 50." And so what if your face freezes up a little? As Fisher notes, "It's good for poker...
...That acting! That drama! That rollerball excitement! I can’t think of three finer actors than L. L. Cool J, Chris Klein and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos,” raved Christine S. Narnia ’02. Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher plans on dropping The Sound and the Fury to make room for the Rollerball screenplay in his popular class on modern American fiction. “I wouldn’t be surprised if more professors followed my lead,” said Fisher. “To get kids?...
...writing classes later—Budnitz realized she was cut out to be a author. The 20-odd short stories that made up her senior thesis formed the bulk of Budnitz’s first published collection, entitled Flying Leap. Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher was one of the oral examiners of Budnitz’s thesis and this year decided to add “Dog Days,” a short story she wrote at the age of 19, to the syllabus of English 178x, “The American Novel from Dreiser...
...seemed to me, along with 30 other stories of hers, to have complete freshness of mood and novelty in combination of tones and levels of reality,” Fisher says. Budnitz says many professors like Fisher use her stories as examples for young writers. “I hope that by including a set of stories by younger writers, I can put in front of students some of the kinds of work they might find interesting in their own generation,” Fisher says. Budnitz’s surrealistic story contrasts with Fisher regulars like the daunting Faulkner...