Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother once said Marianne took to London pop life as if she "had been shot out of a machine gun." Tubercular as a child, she was sent to convent school by her parents after they divorced. She was in her teens when, in 1964, she dropped plans to attend Cambridge University and hit the pop scene. Six years later, she had left Mick Jagger and developed a heavy habit. "I was a registered heroin addict," she says. "I lived on the streets for two years." She went through periods when she managed to reclaim herself, others when she just gave...
...actors or friends. Yet even people who have been close to him for decades say he is hard to get to know. The only child of a couple who endured a venomous divorce, he is described by a friend as the "one person I know who truly hates his mother." Despite diverse infatuations, he has always lived alone, and says, a little sadly, he has "never" been in love...
...time, because it literally did not occur to me that other people had a family life. I saw ((my parents)) occasionally at night and on weekends, and I thought every child in New York lived that way." Sondheim's father was a manufacturer of medium-price dresses, and his mother was the firm's designer. "We lived very nicely," he recalls, "on Central Park West in Manhattan, but at the back of the building. After my father remarried, he moved to Fifth Avenue, still at the back of the building. From him I get my tendency to pessimism. He always...
Stephen's mother won custody of him in the divorce and forbade him to have any contact with his father. "She would have members of her family follow me to see if I met him in secret," he recalls. "She would telephone his apartment to see if I answered, then hang up. I was a substitute for him, and she took out all her anger and craziness on me. From her I get my tendency to hysteria. It was not a great relationship." It never improved: Sondheim has helped his mother financially but has gone through long periods...
...couple of years after the divorce, however, Sondheim's mother made a doting gesture that transformed his life. Stephen, then 12, had made a new friend named Jamie Hammerstein, son of Oscar, the lyricist of Very Warm for May, and was invited to the family farm in Doylestown, Pa., for a weekend. The weekend turned into a summer and, not long after, Mrs. Sondheim bought a house in Doylestown so Stephen could live there year-round. She continued to commute to Manhattan, often stayed there during the week and on weekends typically brought along guests. But as Jamie Hammerstein recalls...