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...Daley told Feldman to grab the Veep and keep him from going onstage. "I said, 'Well, Michael, it probably would be good to go to a holding room,'" said Daley. Everyone's phone was ringing now. "We had no TV, everyone was on a cell phone," says adviser Greg Simon. "People were calling us from everywhere, saying you're only 500 votes, 600 votes behind, don't concede...
Simple. He could hit and throw and run with a gliding grace, and when he could no longer do those things he...well, he looked great in a suit. But as Richard Ben Cramer establishes in his absolutely persuasive DiMaggio: The Hero's Life (Simon & Schuster; 546 pages; $28), Joe D. had a secret. He knew the power of silence. The less he gave, standing remote and noble and regally aloof, the more the world took it as evidence of dignity...
...know what I never said to you during our divorce?" "That you'll take less money?" The couples-therapy repartee in this Broadway comedy harks back to the old Neil Simon, the one who used to churn out hits. But the new Neil Simon needs one desperately, so here he tries grafting Plaza Suite onto No Exit. Six people arrive separately at a Paris restaurant in response to a mysterious dinner invitation; all are divorced couples, it turns out, who proceed to hash over their failed marriages. Despite the energizing presence of TV vets John Ritter and Henry Winkler...
...Most parents reside on pedestals, and if Dad's had been a little higher than the norm, he had that much farther to fall." So writes Tina Sinatra (with Jeff Coplon) in "My Father's Daughter" (Simon & Schuster; 313 pages; $26), her affectionate but clear-eyed memoir about life with Frank. The thought continues: "I could accept him as just a man. But he'd stood so large in my eyes that I couldn't bear to see him smaller than life...
...could fall into the ocean, creating a giant wave that would annihilate large swaths of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. "If I was living in Miami or New York and I heard that the Cumbre Vieja was erupting, I would keep a very close eye on the news," said Dr. Simon...