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...Welcome to Gridlock 2000!" That's how Shirley MacLaine greeted the 1,000 or so guests gathered at an estate near Brentwood last Saturday to raise money for Hillary Clinton's New York Senate campaign. So long and thick was the line of cars waiting for the valet that actor Johnathon Schaech and his date abandoned their limo and hoofed it up the hill, following the lead of an MTV executive and a couple of Hillary's press representatives. The event itself began with a lot of head-turning. There's Brad and Jennifer! There's John Travolta! There...
...will join bookshop shelves already bulging with brave tales of celebrity indisposition, including Lance Armstrong's It's Not About the Bike, detailing his struggle with testicular cancer, and in September, Fall Down, Laughing: How Squiggy Caught MS and Didn't Tell Nobody, by David Lander of Laverne & Shirley. But you don't have to be ailing to get a lot of money for your book; you could just be rich. GE chairman Jack Welch is getting $7.1 million to crank out his story when he retires next year...
...already departed amid pelting rain.) Bagels, bananas, oranges and energy bars--foods that quickly refuel muscles with carbohydrates--were provided at the train station and later on at rest stops. While 5BBC volunteers loaded our bikes onto trucks, we boarded the train for a 2-hr. ride to Mastic-Shirley, our starting point...
While some independents scramble for alternatives, like selling handbags and jewelry, others are sticking to being beautiful. "Retail stores are dominated by the big names, but that doesn't mean we're doomed," says Ibeauty.com vice president Shirley Lord. Smaller brands sold on her site are in more demand than people realize, she says, because they are the same hard-to-find lipsticks and mascaras recommended by fashion magazines...
...unusual for any family members to acknowledge that the new baby has no resemblance at all to Shirley Temple, and sometimes decades have to pass before that acknowledgment can be spoken out loud. When my grandfather was a very old man, he told me, apropos of nothing, about visiting the hospital when I was born: "I came home and told my wife, 'The baby is awful looking.' She said, 'He'll be o.k.' I said, 'No, he looks like a fish. It's a shame. Such nice people.'" At first, I thought "such nice people" was an oddly detached...