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Accordingly, Patti Davis, middle-aged rebel daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, has come to Manhattan's Doral Inn hotel to conduct a one-night-only seminar called Recovering from Dysfunctional Families. The class, which costs $39 to attend, is offered by the Learning Annex, a New York City adult- education center that provides urbanites with such courses as Start Your Own Cheese Business or Mini Goat Farm and Design Your Own Jewelry: Bead Stringing. Among the 70 seminar participants seated in the hotel's ballroom -- a drab hall in which one suspects no ball has ever been held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Happiness the Patti Davis Way | 1/3/1994 | See Source »

...lecture Davis found time to mention a book of hers that will soon be published. "I have a novel coming out," she told the class. "It's called Bondage. It's very erotic." Someday, someone may hold a successful seminar titled Recovering from Reading an Erotic Novel by Patti Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Happiness the Patti Davis Way | 1/3/1994 | See Source »

...Desmond skulked around her overdecorated mansion like a female Phantom of the Opera, remote and unreachable. In Los Angeles, even as she rages like a deranged diva, she shows endearing glints of awareness of her own tawdry emotional blackmail. A single image encapsulates the difference. When London's Norma, Patti LuPone, got her seedy protege back, by a suicide attempt, she collapsed into his arms in maudlin gratitude. The Los Angeles incarnation, Glenn Close, ends the act by lifting her bandaged arms above his embracing form, her fingers curving like talons to take him in. The former evoked weakness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finally Ready for Her Close-Up | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

Last week Herbert Hoover's son Allan died, Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis, 41, announced her engagement to a 27-year-old laborer, and George Bush's eldest son George W., 47, declared his candidacy for the Texas governorship. Here's what other children of recent Presidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whither the First Families? | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...PATTI DAVIS VS. THE REAGANS: Meanwhile, on the Reagan home front, alliances have shifted as well. Patti, having called Mom a pill-popping child abuser and Dad cruelly distant, now tells Variety that they all get on just fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monitor: With Enemies Like These ? | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

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