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Plimpton's fame and glaring idiosyncrasies (born and raised in New York City, he spoke as if he were always dashing off to a regatta) make him the perfect subject for a code-cracking biography, the kind that lays bare the man and his motivations. George, Being George does the trick, in part by borrowing the form of Plimpton's own biographies of Capote and Edie Sedgwick (Jean Stein's Edie: American Girl, which he edited). Recognizing that Plimpton's spirit would suffocate under the weight of analytic prose, editor Nelson Aldrich Jr. interviewed more than 200 verbally dexterous Plimpton...
Vikki Stark thought she had the perfect marriage. She and her loving husband of 21 years seemed unbreakable. Stark, a family therapist, had nursed her husband through a harrowing liver transplant, and he had patiently encouraged her as she wrote her first book. Then, one day in 2006, returning from a three-week book tour, Stark told her husband she had picked up fish for dinner. He responded, "It's over...
...Saretsky explained. “It’s one foot in front of the other. No matter what the conditions, it’s the same thing.”Today forecasts partly cloudy skies with a high of 58 degrees in New York—perfect weather for fast running. Harvard will continue to stay calm and focused about its upcoming race against some of its biggest rivals.“It’s an important race, but we are not the type of team to put too much emphasis on one race,” Gillespie...
...Picture Perfect. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 brings together the magazine's historic 1913-1936 photo archive and its stash of contemporary portraits from 1983 to the present, tracing nearly a century of change in celebrity photography. Artists include Cecil Beaton, Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Helmut Newton, Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino and Bruce Weber. The exhibit runs through March 1, 2009. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard...
...letters. See the collection on MoMA's late night (Friday), then hit Danny Meyer's Modern bar and restaurant next door for drinks and small plates (sit in the Bar Room). The Alsatian thin-crust tart with crème fraîche, onion and applewood smoked bacon is perfect with a glass of white. The Van Gogh exhibit runs through Jan. 5, 2009, then moves to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. 11 West 53rd Street, New York City...