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...with Judy Nelson, and it was an extremely foolish and ugly affair on both of their parts. I was the middleman, and whenever you're the middleman you lose both. But you know what? I think I solved the problem, which is I kept them out of court. I mean, I'm sure their lawyers deserve some credit. Judy sued her for support, and wanted some astronomical sum. And I believed that she was part of her success. She was the person who organized, scheduled, made sure she ate right, etc., etc. What wives do. And Martina - when...
...Well, I don't know. A lot of cheap sh--. People just make up stuff. What are you going to do? Sue everybody that prints something that's wrong? I mean, I can't imagine that anybody is that interested in anyone else's private life. I can only figure out that they don't have one of their...
...PetSmart: Women might scale back their own fashion purchases, but that doesn't mean they're going to let their dogs down. Just ask Leona Helmsley's pooch Trouble, who earned a $12 million trust fund when her owner died last year. WSL Strategic Retail's survey found a net gain of 28 percentage points between those spending more on their pets versus those spending less compared to 2006. In their 2008 study only two categories out of 17 showed significant spending increases among women and men: food and pet supplies. Owners are frequenting pet specialty boutiques or picking...
...lzer, who calls himself "perhaps a little old-fashioned," is not a fan of M.B.A.s. "I favor a system where you learn how to think, how to combine things, how to set priorities," he says. "The subject you studied in school doesn't mean anything. What is significant is the training of your brain. My doctorate is in logistics, and I never worked in logistics, while our head of production logistics did his doctorate in nuclear physics." What he instead values most is instinct. "But you have to train that instinct," he notes...
...also contributed to various anthologies, is regularly featured on National Public Radio, and currently directs Harvard’s Creative Writing Program. In 2006 he was named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” gifted young writers, which means that he’s also really young (and seriously good at writing). Oh and did we mention... he used to be a professional skateboarder? FM sat down with this mastermind to talk about his new collection, thrashing, and making films with Farrah Fawcett. 1. Fifteen Minutes...