Word: pixieish
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Tharp, 68, is talking in her penthouse apartment overlooking New York City's Central Park. It's an airy, loftlike space with blond wood floors where, if you're lucky, she'll show off a step or two to illustrate a point. Pixieish and intense, she talks fast, stares hard, answers questions with more questions. It's not hard to understand her reputation as a prickly taskmaster...
...next morning, a pixieish 37-year-old named Darcie Purcell (whose business card reads "Brand Manager--Mario Batali") led Batali into a conference room to see finished versions of new items in his cookware line for the first time. A $100 risotto pan weighing an astonishing 12 lbs. came out first. "Wow," Batali said proudly. "You're not gonna be lifting this up with one hand." But there was bad news: the kitchenware chain Sur La Table wouldn't be buying the pan--"too niche," apparently...
...radio." Another stalwart of the medium, News Commentator Paul Harvey is a surviving link to an earlier era of network radio. On the air for more than 40 years, he is the most widely heard personality on radio, carried on some 1,100 stations. Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the pixieish sex therapist, was launched to fame by a sex-advice show on New York radio and now also does a national call-in show for NBC, and a TV talk show on the Lifetime Cable Network. "Radio was crucial in giving me the opportunity to talk about sexual matters...
...comedian AMY SEDARIS' real face is difficult to recall, it's probably because she doesn't wear it much on TV. Instead, the pixieish actress, right, often looks like this: her character Jerri Blank from the cable cult hit, and now feature film, Strangers with Candy. "She's so nasty!" says Sedaris, who wiggles into a fat suit to play the ex-hooker, ex-junkie and all-around loser. Now Jerri has become the face of the new antifur campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). "Previous ads addressed the animal cruelty behind fur, but people...
...bank. At 72 she has the same Dutch-boy haircut that she had four decades ago, when she was dynamiting a place for herself in the New York art world. Back then she must have reminded people of the writer Carson McCullers, who would have seemed pixieish only until you read...