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...Saturday, I went with two friends to cater at a birthday party for three women celebrating their 60th birthdays. Little did we know we were being paid $25 an hour to pass out hor d’oeuvres to Chris Affleck (yes, the mother of), one of the birthday women. So when Ben and Jennifer Lopez showed up, exuding their real-life, unphotographed celebrity-wattage five feet from the kitchen, the three of us exchanged glances of disbelief and started frantically piling frozen spinach puffs in the oven for an excuse (any!) to circulate...
...World Trade Center was grudgingly yielding the bodies of fire fighters and cops killed in the attack. Uptown, in the Bronx, Yankee Stadium had become a cathedral of catharsis, the participants emptying their lungs at full volume, as if exhaling a cheer for Jorge Posada ("Hip hip Hor-hay!") might rid them of some of the pain and anxiety of Sept...
...shall die on the mountain that you are about to ascend and shall be gathered to your kin, as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered...
...treaty lasted for the rest of Ramesses' reign. The peace was helped along, no doubt, by his strategic marriage to Hattusilis' daughter Maat-Hor-Neferure in 1246 B.C.-a wedding that almost didn't come off when Ramesses and Hattusilis got into an argument over the dowry. The pharaoh later married another of the Hittite king's daughters, whose name is unknown...
Connoisseurs of musicals know that the story has limitations. The Phantom can sing only one kind of song to Christine: I-adore-you-and-you-ab hor-me. Poor pastel Raoul can never be much more than a Parisian Freddy Eynsford-Hill. And yet -- in the magnificent Lloyd Webber version, the appealing Yeston-Kopit or even the lame Ken Hill -- the story works. The Phantom and Christine sing ) their volcanic sentiments in a plot as spare and potent as legend...