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...journalist Caroline Knapp unravels her tumultuous past life as a "high-functioning" alcoholic. The term is one she borrows from A.A. parlance, and it refers to the sort of boozer who lives well above the gutter, getting good grades at fine colleges, meeting deadlines, summering on Martha's Vineyard. Like most writers and filmmakers who have chronicled the middle-class drinking life, Knapp writes from the prevailing modern perspective that alcoholism is another challenge to be surmounted, a demon to be confronted, a battle...
...take advantage of many things they would not have time for during the year. Doing things during the summer is less of a hassle; the annoying people who get in the way during the year are off being annoying somewhere else--like Hyannis, Cape Cod, Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard...
...with Konstantin's play, there's nothing wrong with the idea. In fact, it's fresh and unaffected, to coin a phrase. Alison Carey's analogy of a vineyard in Napa for a rural estate outside Moscow, and of Hollywood glitterati for Tsarist Russia's belle lettristes gives the play a contemporary edge without sacrificing any of its subtlety. The primitive set places the dialogue and acting center stage. But like Chekhov's antihero, the Cornerstone takes it all too far. At one point, the director, Bill Rauch, injects a gratuitous mime sequence, in which Konstantin...
Woody Harrelson, boarding a plane on Martha's Vineyard following the Oct. 7 wedding of Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, went ballistic when a cameraman ignored his request that only he, and not his young daughter, be photographed. A tape of the incident appeared on Hard Copy...
MARRIED. TED DANSON, 47, onetime Cheers barkeep and former Whoopi Goldberg beau, and actress MARY STEENBURGEN, 42; at Danson's home on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Celebrity attendees included Tom Hanks and the bride's old chums from Arkansas Bill and Hillary Clinton...