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Martha Stewart and Mariana Pasternak were friends for more than 20 years. They spoke on the phone almost every day and lived around the corner from each other in tony Westport, Conn. They went on vacations together, to places like Brazil, Egypt and the Galapagos Islands, where they would laugh that again they had no male company, but at least they had each other...
...December 1980, a week before Christmas, Westport, Connecticut. Paul Newman, known to his friends as ol' PL or Calezzo de Wesso (Bonehead), had asked his buddy A.E. Hotchner (Hotch), sometimes called Sawtooth, to help him with a Christmas project that he was assembling in this basement, which wasn't a basement in the usual sense. There were crusty stones, a dirt floor, crumbling cement, and overhead timbers covered with active cobwebs. Also three long since vacated horse stalls, but the unmistakable aroma of horses remained. A very picturesque place in which to mix salad dressing...
...Gruet Winery's New Mexican sparkling wines, for example, won medals last July at the International Wine and Spirits Competition in London. Bubblies from L. Mawby Vineyards in Michigan and Westport Rivers Vineyard in Massachusetts sparkle...
Like many other actors who have become Hollywood icons, Newman thinks he would have led a worthier life if he had done more theater. So he chose to make his return to the stage (in a production first seen at the Westport Country Playhouse, where his wife Joanne Woodward is artistic director) in Our Town, Thornton Wilder's oft produced slice of Americana, which is given some 350 stagings around the country each year. As the Stage Manager--the fourth-wall-bursting narrator who introduces us to the town of Grover's Corners and its bashful young lovers, George Gibbs...
Meanwhile, at the Westport Court apartment complex in southwest Portland where Battle and Lewis live, neighbors grew alarmed when the couple's son reportedly told another child that "Sept. 11 was a good thing." Residents called the fbi, and at least one agent moved in to observe, they say. The neighbors provided informal backup. "The fbi said I was not to approach them but I should listen for certain 'hot words,' like jihad," Matt Hawkey recalls. He and others routinely passed along license-plate numbers of the couple's visitors...