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Merrill made the gossip pages as regularly as the financial pages. By 1940, he had been married three times, had had countless affairs ("recharging my batteries" was his euphemism for philandering) and had sired three children, the youngest of whom, James Merrill, became one of America's finest poets. A short, self-absorbed, prideful, flamboyant fellow--"Good Time Charlie Merrill," his friends called him--he had the unconscious expectation that Great Men always have: that he should be at the center of any orbit he entered. And so he was. As his son once wrote, "Whatever he decided to serve...
...mood that can only be imagined by anyone who has not built his own town, Levitt would drive his black Cadillac convertible around the streets of his town, checking out what the citizens were doing across the abundant stage he had constructed for them, his ears attuned to local gossip, his eyes to lawn maintenance. (In the early years, householders who didn't mow their grass would find Levitt gardeners dispatched to do it and a bill for the job in their mailbox.) He was the consummate marketing guy, unmoved by books, paintings or music. His first wife once complained...
...Simon (Kenneth Branagh) is a man in a rumpled corduroy jacket with his nose pressed eagerly against the double-glazed windows of fame. A failed novelist, he writes celebrity profiles for magazines and subsists emotionally on such crusts--a bit of gossip, a moment of false intimacy--as the famous discard as they pass...
...stock analysts' published expectations? Most likely, it failed to beat the "whisper" number that really matters on Wall Street--the one analysts apply privately, when they aren't trying to make life easier for their firm's clients. This earnings season investors can read more of the market's gossip at sites like whispernumber.com and www.earningswhispers.com...
...whether Harvard is a four-year, sleep-away-camp mixer. Being "boy crazy" and "cliquey" and getting a thrill from under age drinking hasn't exactly faded into the past. At parties, girls still stand in the corner to whisper ("That style is, like, so five minutes ago!") and gossip about recent hook-ups ("Those two together? As if!"). Boys demonstrate their ever-raging hormones by "grinding" with each other on the dance floor, chugging beer...