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When Trinity finally voted in 1992, reconciliation passed by a 4-to-1 vote. And the church thrived. This year it counted 350 members, a full third of whom are gay (plus one transgendered person, a Mary Kay beauty-products saleswoman). For Wise, the transformation was a joy and a challenge. A joy because people like Carolyn Dietrich returned to the church. Thirty-five years ago, Wise had taught Carolyn in Sunday School. Since then, Dietrich had gone off into the world, become a teacher and then a funding consultant, lived in Dallas, and wooed and wed her partner Lisa...
Certain jobs somehow lend themselves towards informal conversation. There's the hairdresser who blow-dries while discussing who's sleeping with whom, the bartender who consoles the heartbroken with a pint of Sammie, the J. Crew saleswoman who becomes your body-image consultants. Then, of course, there is the cabbie...
...movie mural, Diego Rivera-style. While Welles (MacFayden) and producer John Houseman (Elwes) try to persuade their government patron (Jones) not to cancel the show, Nelson Rockefeller (Cusack) romances Rivera (Blades), then literally trashes his work. There's also a young actress (Watson), an old ventriloquist (Murray), a swank saleswoman for fascism (Sarandon)--just about anyone who was alive then, and dabbling in the arts, is in this too-much of a movie...
Children like the arrangement because they can roam freely from one friend's house to another. Parents appreciate having lots of help keeping watch, and singles enjoy the companionship. "My kids were grown up and gone," says Susan Barnhill, 57, a Mary Kay cosmetics saleswoman, as she rolls her wheelchair in the front-door of a flat especially adapted to her needs. "Here, there are instant friends...
...wanted to know what burns in the heart," he says. So he finds a struggling French entrepreneur with no venture funding, no friends and a work visa about to expire, who confesses, "There's a knife at my throat. Sometimes I get really, really scared." A motherly saleswoman talks about going for "the kill" when she closes a deal. A CEO starts to unravel in the final sweaty minutes of an IPO that just might fizzle. The tension is palpable, the fear real, as Bronson chronicles "the living hell of radical uncertainty that is start-up life...