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...frozen embryos, made from his sperm and her eggs, left over from their married days of trying to conceive by in-vitro fertilization. Maureen, who is 40 and childless, wants to use them to have children. Steven, 38, is adamant that he doesn't want kids with his ex-wife. He is seeking to donate the embryos to research. Their fight has ended up in New York's highest court, which hears arguments this week. Legal experts expect a landmark decision that will reverberate nationally on the hotly contested question of just who controls frozen fertilized tissue that...
Other state courts offer little guidance. A Tennessee court ruled in 1992 that a divorcing father could destroy embryos he had created with his wife. However, the decision turned on the fact that the wife planned to donate the eggs to an infertile couple, reducing her personal interest in them. Courts usually try to be Solomonic in their decisions, but in the Kasses' case that may not be enough. King Solomon had to decide the fate of only one baby, and it was alive...
...Mamet shoot isn't solemn. "There's a great atmosphere on the set," says Martin, whom Mamet wanted to work with ever since seeing him in a 1988 revival of Waiting for Godot, and who seamlessly joins such Mamet familiars as Pidgeon (the author's wife) and Jay. "You can make a great movie having fun as easily as you can make a great movie having angst." Mamet loves devising practical jokes, keeping the actors loose, writing gags just for the joy of it. He's written 20 or so plays, five original screenplays he's directed, seven scripts...
DIED. BETSEY CUSHING ROOSEVELT WHITNEY, 89, grande dame of society; in Manhasset, N.Y. The middle child of the three glamorous Cushing sisters (the oldest married Vincent Astor, the youngest was the legendary society figure Babe Paley), she wrote the book on marrying money. The first wife of F.D.R.'s oldest son, James Roosevelt (when mother-in-law Eleanor was away, Betsey played White House hostess), she was the widow of tycoon John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
That will not satisfy Mitchell Wright, whose wife Shannon was killed in Jonesboro. "It doesn't matter to me that these were boys," he says hesitantly. "Their age has nothing to do with the fact that they murdered my wife and four others. Kids do things on the spur of the moment. What these boys did was not a spur of the moment thing." For Wright his wife's death is likely to be a crime without true punishment...