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Bell worked with Karen and Jeff Berman, who recently spent close to a year remodeling their 1940s house in Larchmont, N.Y., knocking down walls to create a knockout kitchen that opens into large living and eating areas. The Bermans put their money where the activity is. "We devoted a lot of effort to planning and designing the kitchen because our family loves to cook, loves to eat and loves to entertain," says Karen, a serious cook...
...adopted kid. I grew up with these two people in Larchmont, N.Y., in a grand house with servants and all the rest. I didn't like them, and they didn't like me. When I was very young, my values began turning opposite to theirs. They were deeply bigoted, reactionary, materialistic. They expected--demanded, really--that I become a businessman or lawyer, and of course they could never talk about my being gay. Yet from early on, I knew that I wanted to be a writer, that I was gay and that my politics were left...
...schtick? Joe, I said, had a secret: His real name is Joseph Larchmont and he's a WASP from Old Lyme. Why did he parade around as an orthodox Jew, I asked? Because Connecticut's politics were already filled with preppies, either authentic WASPs like the Bushes or near WASPs like the Buckleys. To get ahead in the Nutmeg State, you needed an ethnic angle. This meant that he had to pose as a Jew. After a day of running around in his Jewish pose, complete with Yiddishisms and a rabbinical demeanor, he'd come home each night...
...Shakespeare in our time, a filmmaker of heart, intelligence and originality. One moviegoer was heard to remark about Branagh after seeing the film, "He's so fearless I could kiss him!" That's a rare enough quality, and one the world of cinema should see more often. JANE LAND Larchmont...
...only cheap entertainment but lessons as well. We safely watched suitable family entertainment, and on Saturday afternoons had a four-hour treat. For 25[cents] we could watch two great movies plus a cartoon and an exciting weekly chapter of a serial. What a great escape! JOAN S. MARKOWITZ Larchmont...