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When Werner Erhard (born John Paul Rosenberg) founded Erhard Seminars Training, Inc. in 1971, the former used-car salesman from Philadelphia had a hook. Born of the theater-of-the-absurd atmosphere of the late 1960s, est (Latin for "it is") promised to help people get "it," whatever "it" was. Erhard's 60-hour seminars were strenuous ordeals, complete with "body catchers" and barf bags for the weak of mind and stomach. Trainers applauded bladder control and cursed those who didn't get it. Still, Erhard and his message proved popular, even winning celebrity advocates. Then, after two decades...
Unlike Erhard, est is still around--sort of. In 1991, before he left the U.S., Erhard sold the "technology" behind his seminars to his employees, who formed a new company called the Landmark Education Corp., with Erhard's brother Harry Rosenberg at the helm. Rosenberg admits that Erhard was in Toronto briefly last June for a family reunion, but will not elaborate: "I'm not my brother's keeper. I'm not his spokesman...
...Even if it's true, it doesn't have to be the most important thing in the world," says Ruthie Rosenberg of Philadelphia. "I would rather see happy news. About Leonardo DiCaprio." Ruthie...
...story of the Girls of Winter Past--part tragedy, part comedy, all soap opera--"is not a real happy tale," says agent Michael Rosenberg, even though these four have helped make skating so popular that $1 million annual incomes for name skaters are now routine. Rosenberg represents 41 skaters and, with exquisite timing, dumped Harding as a client just days before the clubbing because her husband was making him nuts. "You've got Nancy with her stock suffering, Oksana never winning another competition...Katia [Gordeeva's nickname] is the only one now of the four...
...there weren't enough twisted drama in all this, coming next into your living room is a heavily promoted Fox interview with the dynamic duo whom Rosenberg calls Snow White and the Wicked Witch: Nancy and Tonya...