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...gems to the Continent. There they were disassembled and recut. Another footnote: some of the stones could have been unwittingly reacquired by the royal family. Queen Elizabeth often wears a magnificent brooch containing at least a dozen white Brazilian diamonds that might once have belonged to her great-grandpa...
...Louise Gerstenblatt just opened their baby eight weeks ago, at 988 Mass Ave opposite the Orson Welles theater, and they have high hopes. Originally from Montpelier, Vermont, they are the Grandpa and Grandma behind "Grandma's Cookie Factory," which is the retail branch of the wholesale cookie business they ran in Montpelier along with their son Jeff, and friend of the family David Peatman. Grandma's offers six kinds of quarter-pound chocolate chip cookies, carrot and other cakes, bagels, and "what we're going to do with ice cream," says 38-year-old Sid, "will blow your mind...
When Baker began to write the "Observer," he says, he had no notion that failure was a possibility, only a determination not to let his columns fall into an easily identifiable category. "You get onto a columnist, you know. There's foxy grandpa, there's the font of wisdom, there's Mr. Inside Information, and I was trying to mix it up, like a junk-ball pitcher in baseball keeping them off balance." He laughs. "You get older and lose your fastball and there's more junk. It was easy to be angry, but I felt you couldn...
...extended family of stereotypes--1) hopeless professional gambler father, 2) gang member brother, and 3) kindly, white-haired, tailor grandfather. This crew goes about their stock business as usual (Pa loses $2700 on Sleepwalker in the seventh, brother collects "tolls" for safe passage through the streets of Hoboken, Grandpa takes in pants), leaving Irving to do some dazzling acting...
...baggy pants, loud shirts, suspenders-he whips in and out of a multitude of comic characterizations. He can mimic the cadences of Shakespeare, many foreign languages, an ark of animals, various machines. His act includes a redneck used-car salesman, a Russian comic, a gay director, a touchingly mad grandpa...