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...lavish East Room wedding, Alice married Nicholas Longworth, an Ohio Congressman who shared little with her besides an interest in Republican politics. A drinker and a playboy, Longworth quickly earned his wife's "complete contempt," says Sturm. Alice also grew to resent her do-gooder cousins Franklin and Eleanor, often mocking Eleanor's bucktoothed smile at dinner parties. "Grammy couldn't stand earnestness," Sturm says...
...such indulgences, and countless others, you cross the bridge to the island principality of Bahrain - a country of almost 700,000, with high-rise hotels, a playboy king, a base for the U.S. Fifth Fleet, and significant cash flow from its role as a discreet "service provider" for Saudi Arabia. The lives of Saudis, and Bahrainis, are thoroughly framed by this arrangement, and its attendant hypocrisies. And both suffer the presence of its by-product: groups of stealthy, violent religious purists, graced with many opportunities to feel self-righteous. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...
That's not quite the full story. De Laurentiis exercises three days a week with Joseph Rivera, a Taekwondo black belt whose other clients have included a Playboy cover model. She also regularly walks along the beach near her Pacific Palisades, Calif., home for as long as two hours, which she admits can get "really freakin' boring...
Grammer has always insisted there was more to him than Frasier, and if his personal life is any indication, that pretty much has to be true. He conducts his private affairs like a man competing in a tabloid decathlon. To summarize: three wives (including a stripper and a Playboy bunny), three children (not all by people he was married to), plus trouble with alcohol (DUI) and cocaine (possession, rehab). "The beauty of playing Frasier and being Kelsey at the same time was that they did not relate," Grammer says. "I was scandal fodder throughout all those years because I played...
...thought of as at odds with a young woman who has played such a forceful role in dramatic arts on campus. Savitsky has been involved in 16 productions, is the historian of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, and serves as the executive producer for “The Playboy of the Western World,” going up this semester on the Loeb Mainstage. Recently, she was selected by the Faculty Committee on the Arts to be the recipient of the Louise Donovan Award. According to the website of the Office for the Arts, the Louise Donovan Award exists...