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Adultery never looks good on a political resume. But whether it is a career ender or just an unsightly smudge depends on the politician involved. Now, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is another example to study in the interplay of sex and politics...
...about $26,000), a statuette of an aproned and toqued Bocuse balanced on a globe, and bragging rights to being the best young chef in the world. No American has ever made it onto the winner's podium in the nine previous meets that have been held. But Gavin Kaysen means to change that. At just 27, Kaysen is already head chef at El Bizcocho, the restaurant at the Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego, Calif., which the Zagat Survey has named one of the best places to dine in that city, and he has outfilleted, outsautéed and outroasted...
Kaysen has also attracted impressive mentors, including Daniel Boulud, the award-winning French chef who owns restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas and Palm Beach, Fla., and Charlie Trotter, the famed Chicago chef who has been a Bocuse judge. Both have high hopes for their protégé. "Gavin has the passion for French cuisine, a very good palate, and he's a master of technique and timing," says Boulud. "And he's very meticulous and detail oriented, which is crucial." Trotter, who has been following Kaysen's career since the younger chef applied for an internship in his kitchen...
...fractured London household, with pompous father George Banks (Daniel Jenkins), mother Winifred (perennial Broadway luminary Rebecca Luker) and two rambunctious children, Jane and Michael (played by three pairs of kids); the hiring of the uncanny nanny Mary Poppins (Ashley Brown); the narration by Mary's friend, Bert the chimneysweep (Gavin Lee); the rooftop dance of Bert and his proletarian pals; and most of Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman's hit score. Eight of the Shermans' 14 songs (including "Chim Chim Cher-ee," "A Spoonful of Sugar," and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious") have been retained; George Stiles and Anthony Drewe expanded some...
...success of Tom Dobbs’ presidential bid—complicated by an unfortunate, perfunctory conspiracy/romance plot featuring the appealing but ineffectual Laura Linney as a programmer for an electronic voting corporation—seems to represent the failed promise of intellectual standouts like Howard Dean and Gavin Newsom...