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Simpson does not have a steady girlfriend at the moment but, according to a friend, he does occasionally go out with Gretchen Stockdale. Stockdale is the lingerie model and former cheerleader whom he had tried to call on the night of the murders. This source says Simpson and Stockdale went to several Halloween parties this year dressed as Frankenstein and the bride of Frankenstein. In early November USA Today reported that Simpson had "upset and frightened" an intern at the Santa Monica courthouse by "asking her out and sexually harassing her." Simpson denied this to TIME and said...
...That's silly," said Gretchen N. Meek '99. "Every once in a while they'd have a couple of people, but not large groups. If somebody wants to take pictures of me eating, that's there prerogative, if they want to waste their film...
...Arcadia" refers to the stately pleasure dome Sidley Park, built by a shrewd but merry widow in Derbyshire, England, in 1809. Its inhabitants include her precocious daughter, Thomasina (Gretchen Cleevely), who is busily deducing the physics of heat without the use of mathematics and to the astonishment of her dashing tutor, Septimus (Conner Trinneer), a craggy landscaper who wishes to redesign Arcadia in a more gothic style, including a hermitage and a rented hermit, and Ezra Chater (Stephen Temperley), a second-rate poet. Oh, and Lord Byron also wanders about the premises, though, sadly, off-stage...
...principal actors handle their roles with plenty of energy, and keep this intricate vessel moving smoothly forward. Conner Trinneer plays Septimus with a charming cockiness, blended with tenderness for his 13-year-old charge, and the tutor becomes the most sympathetic figure in the play, despite his extensive philandering. Gretchen Cleevely plays the wise child with a sort of Margaret O'Brien chirpiness, which is distracting, but not excessively so; more troubling are the scenes toward the end of the play, which seem to propose the 16-year-old Thomasina as a potential sexual partner for her adult tutor. Granted...
...largely applied: singers sang and songwriters wrote. In the past few years one distinct author's voice has emerged from the throats of Martina McBride (Independence Day), Patty Loveless (You Don't Even Know Who I Am) and Trisha Yearwood (On a Bus to St. Cloud). The composer is Gretchen Peters, and her own first album, The Secret of Life (Imprint), offers 10 fresh reasons to elect her to the country songwriter's Hall of Fame...