The security man at the U.S. Open was in a quandary. “Marla,” he asked with genuine wonder, “how do you want me to handle the photographers and the autograph kids?”…
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Beverly Hills is a town that marries for richer—never, ever for poorer— and no one who’s anyone these days gets married without a prenuptial agreement. MAUREEN ORTH reports on the stars who have signed them (James Woods, Richard Pryor), those who haven’t (Jane Fonda, Roseanne Barr), and those who wish they had
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Since the death this winter of her adored husband, Tito Arias, Dame Margot Fonteyn has lived on alone at their remote Panamanian finca. Offstage she had always merged her identity with…
Read moreOriginal Publication: New York Woman, May 1990 Pardon me if I seem a little distracted in this column. I don’t get much sleep, and I don’t have time to write….
Read moreOriginal Publication: New York Woman, March, 1990 For months now I’ve had the fantasy of my body outlined in chalk like a corpse on asphalt, spread-eagled, with little price tags…
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Original Publication: The New York Times, November 26, 1989 BUSYBODIES By Patrick Anderson. 256 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $18.95. Washington is a tough town for a satirist to…
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