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...slot between Seinfeld and ER, it is the odds-on favorite to become the fall's new hit sitcom. But can Alley really succeed where other Cheers alums have failed? Though Kelsey Grammer's Frasier is a ratings hit for NBC, Ted Danson (Sam), Rhea Perlman (Carla) and George Wendt (Norm) have all bombed in series over the past year. NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield signed up Veronica's Closet for only 13 episodes, but he notes that Alley's producers, Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane, the creative team behind Friends, weren't just handed the precious post...
...soon forget the struggles they encountered on the way up and how, without the help of a spouse, they would not have had either financial or psychological comfort while making the climb to the top. Lorna Wendt did not stop working when she gave up her job as a music teacher. The only thing she gave up was her salary. She took on duties equal to the challenges of a ceo. To keep a home running in the corporate style and be responsible for the upbringing of two children are not easy tasks and certainly not "de minimus," as Gary...
...according to Michael Ostrow, president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. But for the wealthy--unless you're in a 50-50 community-property state--when love fades, the wife's value is inversely calculated: the richer the household, the less, proportionally, she gets. One such wife, Lorna Wendt, 53, has decided to fight that principle. She returns to court in Stamford, Connecticut, this week, having turned down a $10 million offer from her husband Gary Wendt, 54, the chief executive of General Electric's GE Capital. "I view marriage as a partnership," says Lorna, who contends that Gary...
...that Lorna packed up and sold five houses and took primary responsibility for the two kids. She created what William H. Whyte Jr., author of The Organization Man, once called an island of tranquillity that would "liberate her husband's total energies for the job." Eight days after the Wendts' first child was born, according to Oldham, "Lorna got a call from Mr. Wendt's secretary saying, 'Your husband has decided to have a dinner party tonight. There will be 12 people arriving...
...courts have begun putting value on the social trappings of a high-end marriage: the A-list party invitations and the good table at Spago. Given what awaits a 53-year-old divorce in Stamford who may be lucky to be invited to a potluck supper with Scrabble, Gary Wendt's decision to spin off Lorna after 31 years should get her half and then some...