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Higdon began his hockey career at the age of nine after moving from Los Angeles to Greenwich, Conn. At the time, the only knowledge Higdon had of hockey came from watching the L.A. Kings on television...
...everything comes easily to Trillin, 60, who lives in a Greenwich Village brownstone with his wife Alice. His new column, he worries, is slightly shorter than the one he is accustomed to writing. As a result, he modestly warns, "the readers are going to have to get their profound thoughts somewhere else." That, as Trillin admirers well know, is only allegedly true...
DURING ITS 54 WEEKS ON THE air, the WB netlet has produced the sort of programming that requires viewers to suspend disbelief far too strenuously. The sitcom Kirk, for example, asks us to accept that Kirk Cameron could be a Greenwich Village illustrator raising three children and dating a doctor who looks like Elle MacPherson. More demanding still is Simon, a sitcom about a dim-witted TV executive that seems to be set in some parallel universe where grown men take baths in front of their friends...
DIED. CHARLES GORDONE, 70, playwright; of cancer; in College Station, Texas. Gordone became the first African-American playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize with the 1969 Broadway bow of No Place to Be Somebody. A portrait of schemers, dreamers and losers in a grungy Greenwich Village bar, it owed as much to the saloon drama of O'Neill and Saroyan as it did to the black theater renaissance of the sixties...
Remember when cockroaches were romantic? Mary Cantwell's Manhattan, When I Was Young (Houghton Mifflin; 214 pages; $21.95) is an unusually deft contribution to the durable genre of memoirs on the theme of How I Came of Age in a Greenwich Village Walk-Up, Married an Intellectual and Learned to Survive on My Own in the Big Apple...