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...realized I was with child." As a memento of their visit, Spielberg bought a Monet, which hangs on their living room wall. In the den is the original Rosebud sled used in Citizen Kane. As for the discipline of fatherhood, Spielberg will let history be his guide: "My mom spoiled me. I'll spoil the baby. Amy will be strong with Max, and I'll be the pushover." But he promises a change. "Until now Amy and I have looked elsewhere for our 400 cc of real life -- spell that r-e-e-l. I'm great with a movie...
...sublime and stirring wall was built, 58,022 names inscribed. As a compromise with opponents, however, a more conventional figurative sculpture was added to the site last fall (at a cost of $400,000). It does not spoil the memorial, as the art mandarins had warned. The three U.S. soldiers, cast in bronze, stand a bit larger than life, carry automatic weapons and wear fatigues, but the pose is not John Wayne-heroic: these American boys are spectral and wary, even slightly bewildered as they gaze southeast toward the wall. While he was planning the figures, Sculptor Frederick Hart spent...
...half a grand each, the glittery gourmands were treated to a five-course meal featuring sweetbreads and | truffles, lobster, frogs' legs and lamb prepared by some of the top chefs of France in honor of Food Critic and Chef Pierre Franey, 64. Proving that too many cooks can spoil the guests, Gastronomic Masters Paul Bocuse, 59, Alain Chapel, 47, Gaston Leniotre, 64, Jacques Maximin, 36, and Roger Verge, 53, raised a deliciously rich total of $250,000. Says Bocuse: "We all put our hearts into this meal." And hang the cholesterol...
...N.B.A. minutes, merely as the pragmatist cooperating with the merchandisers "trying to jazz up business with old No. 14 on the bench." Sitting beside him, actually inside him, was the sentimentalist. "I never wanted to expose the old bod' before that 35-and-over group, to spoil the illusion, destroy the myth, look like what you are, a tired...
...Chronicle (1957), his first novel, brought Cheever the first of his many awards and a period of relative financial security. Susan remembers these heady times, which stretched through the 1960s: "His marriage was still exciting, his children were thriving, and we all made a lot of 'Will success spoil John Cheever?' jokes. Later, success and celebrity took a big toll on my father and he became quite pompous about himself...