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...Martha Parry had had it all figured out when she sold her small insurance firm in Massapequa, N.Y. Her house was paid for, and she would be receiving monthly payments over the next two years from the sale of her business. Those proceeds would cover her expenses until she turned 65 and started collecting Social Security benefits. Meanwhile, the $1 million she had managed to save in tax-advantaged accounts would grow to $1.3 million or so. Only then would she start tapping the income from her nest egg. Parry looked forward to filling her golden years with golf, restaurant...
...expert in hookers," Shirley Maclaine once said. She was speaking about the limited repertoire for actresses in Hollywood. Things have improved a bit over the years for female stars, but behind the camera, it's a different story. Consider this: according to statistics recently compiled by Martha M. Lauzen, a professor at San Diego State University, men directed 90% of the top 250 movies released in 2001, while the ranks of female directors (and writers) dwindled from the previous year...
...couple of Camerons, Diaz (on a subway) and Crowe (on a bus), flit through Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg--who also shows up in Goldmember. Men in Black II enlists Michael Jackson and Martha Stewart--aha, they are aliens! In Mr. Deeds, Al Sharpton delivers a rappin' elegy and John McEnroe teaches Adam Sandler how to (mis)behave in New York City. Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal features bits by Brad Pitt and his Se7en director David Fincher...
...scandals hitting Wall Street, only ImClone's makes it into the society pages. But Martha Stewart is not the only stockholder of the biotech firm who is coming under suspicion for possible insider trading. Documents obtained by TIME show dumping of ImClone stocks by its executives that dwarfed Stewart's $228,000 sale. And their trading preceded Stewart's by weeks, starting just after Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials met privately with an ImClone vice president last Dec. 4 and informally signaled there could be licensing problems for the company's cancer drug Erbitux. The FDA formally turned down...
...painful even to contemplate dating after being with one person for decades, as Brothers points out. This is especially true of those who are newly widowed versus those who are divorced and may have been looking to leave their marriage for a while. "No matter what you do," says Martha Parry, 65, a widow and retired insurance-agency owner in Oakdale, N.Y., "it's hard to get used to anyone else after being married for 36 years...