Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baker and his wife Mimi rent three floors of a four-story brownstone ("a dilapidation," they call it) on Manhattan's East Side. But the Bakers' beloved sheltering place is a gray shingle and white clapboard summer house on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island. It was built by a whaling captain in 1835, at the height of the island's seafaring prosperity. Its present owners seem comfortable there, and with each other. Tall, handsome and merry of heart, Mimi is a good conversational match for Baker, and people who know the pair well tend to say "they" when talking of them, rather...
...self-syndicated columns of any kind (he sends it directly to his 80 clients, thereby avoiding a syndicate's customary fee of 50%) and has so far been unsuccessful in his quest for academy membership. Yoakum, 57, in one column described how the Indians tried to reclaim Manhattan from Mayor Beame, who was only too eager to give it back, and in another, after wincing at the mistakes in a lately deceased friend's obituary, imagined how his own would be botched: "LAKEVILLE, CONN.-Robert Yoakum, syndicated columnist and ... first ad obit Yoakum here today...
...time to writing and art. The deposed diplomat, who in the past penned essays, film criticisms and six novels, has turned to nonfiction: the events that led to the downfall of the Shah and the execution of Hoveida's older brother, former Premier Amir Abbas Hoveida. Meanwhile, a Manhattan gallery is showing 37 examples of his Persian calligraphy, which consists of colorful, paper-on-paper abstractions. Eighteen have already been sold at prices ranging from...
...comforting, a benign extension of Foreign Man tailored for situation comedy and appearing weekly, under the name Latka Gravas, on ABC's smash sitcom Taxi. But Latka fans who sought out Kaufman at his frequent unscheduled appearances at comedy clubs or who checked out his recent concert at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall got something of a shock. Lovable Latka is there all right, but reduced to supporting status; his cute malapropisms ("America is a tough town") are cut entirely; only his accent, and the loony-tune vocabulary, remain to reassure. The concert was like a childhood Saturday spent...
...extremis. Pamela Reed's Arlie has a stinging honesty that stems, in part, from never prettifying a particularly loathsome brat. Getting Out, Marsha Norman's first play, was initially staged at Jon Jory's Actors Theater of Louisville, and had a brief run at Marymount Manhattan's Phoenix last fall. Now tenanted in Greenwich Village at the Theater de Lys, it promises to be one of the prides of off-Broadway...