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Celebrities, yes. Portly fruit-loving professional bridge players, no. Jane Bronstein was the focus of a lot of DAVID LETTERMAN's attention last September after she was filmed vigorously eating a peach at the U.S. Open. The Late Show aired the clip of the "seductive temptress" often, and put it on the Times Square Jumbotron with the caption if this is you...call now! Instead Letterman heard from her lawyer. He stopped showing the tape, but wouldn't pay damages. So Bronstein, who suffers from a thyroid condition, is taking Letterman to court for invasion of privacy. Does Dick Assman...
...America in part because he knows so little about it. He takes to drinking milk, goes to Tokyo to study at the Very Romantic English Academy (English schools in Japan really do have names like that) and falls in with various foreigners who return the compliment by idealizing him: Jane, a tattooed English teacher in red cowboy boots who mistakes intensity for intimacy; and Paul, a refined advertising agent who collects Japanese boys as if they were woodcuts...
...Harvard alumni will have the opportunity to vote on the overseers by mail this spring. The alums will receive their ballots on April 15 and must return them by May 31, according to HAA's Assistant Director for Alumni Relations Jane Cantor...
...former Spanish interior minister Jose Barrionuevo on charges that he ordered the killing and kidnapping of Basque separatists could signal the end of Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez's 14-year reign. "This announcement is a slap in the face to Gonzalez and his party," reports TIME's Jane Walker from Madrid. "People have a hard time believing that Gonzalez did not know about the death squads. But the Prime Minister has given no indication that he will take Barrionuevo's name off a candidate list for the March 3 national elections. Gonzalez is on the wrong side of public...
WHERE WOULD LATE 20TH CENtury pop culture be without Jane Austen, literature's first great chronicler of the young, the idle and the sardonic--not to mention the romantically addled? Without Austen's fine-boned fiction we might never have had an Ethan Hawke, a Whit Stillman or an NBC Thursday-night lineup...