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...Bush is the unofficial membership director for his secession movement.) One Vermont Senator, Brooklyn-born Bernie Sanders, is an avowed socialist; the other, Pat Leahy, is a liberal Democrat perhaps best known for being told by the Vice President on the Senate floor to go "f--k yourself." When Manhattan-born Howard Dean served as governor, he was considered pretty conservative for a Vermont politician...
...colleague meant you, the world-famous millionaire hedge fund manager turned philanthropist. By “the,” I meant the Manhattan-born, Orioles loving workers’ compensation lawyer Michael Steinhardt, a.k.a. Dad. I learned quickly: Michael Steinhardt is my father, but if you mean the rich and famous Michael Steinhardt, then no—we’re not related...
...suspect that being a Manhattan-born Knicks fan plays a major role in my complex. I grew up regaled with tales of heroics on the Garden floor--Willis Reed versus Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Bradley, Earl the Pearl, and the whole cast of characters that brought two titles to 32nd and 8th long before my conception. Becoming a fan was assumed, indeed required...
DIED. HURD HATFIELD, 80, actor; in Monkstown, Ireland. Best remembered as the lead in 1945's The Picture of Dorian Gray, the Manhattan-born Hatfield was famed for his arrogant manner. He appeared in such movies as Jean Renoir's Diary of a Chambermaid...
Sullivan liked to promise his audiences "a r-r-really big shew," and far more often than not he delivered. "Ed Sullivan was America's taste," observes Rivers, which is probably as good an explanation as any for the program's long-running success. A Manhattan-born sportswriter turned show-biz columnist for the New York Daily News, Sullivan had a reporter's instinct for what was hot, and he outhustled rivals to showcase new talent, notably Elvis Presley and the Beatles. And not just in pop. Sullivan proudly treated his audiences to classical excellence in the personae of opera...