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MARRIED. DENNIS FRANZ, 50, Emmy-winning, untoned-buttocks-baring star of NYPD Blue; to longtime live-in friend JOANIE ZECK, 47; in Carmel, California. The marriage is his first, her second...
FATHER GREG (LINUS ROACHE), the young priest at a Catholic parish in Liverpool, is handsome, theologically conservative--and gay. His boss, Father Matthew (Tom Wilkinson), spouts socialist dogma and has sex with his live-in housekeeper. The husband of the parish's hardest-working volunteer forces sex on their daughter. The local bishop is a ward heeler in a cassock...
...loner. Last week some of his associates expressed surprise that he was married. Said one: "His behavior was more like that of a bachelor." Almost no one had heard of Lisa Leeson in the expatriate community; she was not a member of any of the social clubs. The live-in maid next door says Lisa rarely left the house. When she did, she wore jeans and T shirts or athletic sweats--and according to the apartment building's security guard, "her face looked angry, thin and pale." Apart from her husband, she seemed to have only one other constant friend...
...glossy brochure advertising "the best live-in child care in the world!" had featured energetic European lasses with megawatt smiles. So Cathy and Thomas Lynch of Wilton, Connecticut, were perplexed in November 1990 when their Dutch au pair arrived fearful and miserable. On Day One, Saskia, 21, wept uncontrollably, but lacked enough English to explain why she was upset. On Day Two, Saskia expressed shock that she was expected to provide sole care for the Lynches' two daughters, ages two and four, while the Lynches were at work; she thought she had come to America primarily to travel and learn...
...Lynches' experience is not one of those sensational au-pair-from-hell stories that make for splashy headlines and breathless movies-of-the-week. Yet it is typical enough in the annals of live-in babysitters to give pause to any family seeking an au pair. A number of the eight agencies that have placed 40,094 au pairs in American homes since 1986 say between 20% and 30% of their placements don't work out. Unhappy au pairs complain that they are lonely and treated like slaves. Discontented parents speak of au pairs who are immature, irresponsible or mentally...