Ben Stein's Diary: Top This
Stein, Benjamin J.
BEN STEIN'S DIARY by Benjamin J. Stein Top This Monday Ich liebe mein Cadillac. This morning I was up at 6 a.m., yes 6 a.m., to play a part in a movie about a rambunctious dog. At 7 a.m., a...
...I love you, Cadillac, for the way you take care of me...
...Then he added, "And I have no idea of what to do with my life at this point...
...Will there be the worst possible passengers—mad card-shuffling maniacs putting on perfume...
...Now most of the kids barely speak English," Joe said...
...They don't like America and they are scared of Americans...
...The British were bombed," I said...
...He was just coming from premieres of his movie in New York and Washington, D.C...
...It was not gone...
...This led Belzer into a long harangue about how Nixon had caused the genocide in Cambodia...
...Hello, Steve, who has at last become a star...
...Ain't you got no mammy or pappy to take care of you...
...That's the kind of mood with which I approach each and every flight...
...Priscilla is friendly, chatty, unbelievably outgoing...
...We are to make merry about the events of 1997...
...For me, that can make an airplane flight into literal torture...
...A seat kicker was across the aisle but he was kicking someone else...
...The same school where my mother studied Latin and Greek...
...Then he ran into hard times...
...I asked Wendy what kind of boyfriends she liked...
...Worst of all, she had apparently thrown away my airline tickets back to L.A...
...I won't forget it...
...Did Nixon form the Cambodian character...
...They were so very kind to me...
...My hotel is mobbed...
...He found doctors who had new ideas...
...By a miracle, the cancer was greatly slowed, and then arrested, and Denise went into a remission that would have seemed unthinkable just a short time before...
...Just ask Mary Albert...
...Denise continued to try to sell, continued to raise her kids, and by an odd happenstance, became close, although not romantically close, with Steve...
...There is a man to be reckoned with...
...I had heard he was homeless when Spielberg discovered him...
...and infinitely faster than phoning dozens of agents...
...It was waiting, lurking, sharpening its teeth in the dark...
...Joe and Steve are by far my favorite cousins...
...She had her usual fine sense of humor...
...77 I took them up to see if there was anything juicy about Janet Reno, and lo and behold, out fell my crumpled up airline tickets...
...The problem is that here are all these crazy people crammed into one small space...
...Rohypnol...
...She told us how Denise refused to become an invalid...
...Her name was Wendy Benson...
...I called American Airlines who were very helpful...
...Heart-breaking...
...on every quote...
...Here I am in New York City...
...Have questions or want quotes mailed to you...
...Did you meet Clinton...
...The first to make available this new custom-search service...
...She knows an amazing amount for a college student...
...I called my OnStar center with just the touch of a button...
...You can imagine...
...They are smart, angry, and know no history...
...Kip/Inger's "Quotesmith keeps a database of about 350 insurance companies...
...At blinding speed...
...I remember taking a photo of her, but where it is I do not know...
...You were so beautiful with your hair under your scarf and your black denim jeans...
...I am never coming back to New York...
...On the other side was a beautiful woman who looked to be in her mid-twenties...
...I stammered...
...Then, after that, to a room with no view also but no noise (or so I thought...
...He became a body builder and had beautiful young girlfriends, some more lasting than others...
...Then, the hostess at a dinner party, the lovely Priscilla Presley, walks by my head with a platter of turkey slices...
...As my father always says, "If a man comes up to you and tells you he is a fish, you don't lift up his shirt to see if he has scales...
...Thursday A spot of late night snacks at the Ritz-Carlton bar with my new best friend, the Romanian beauty, whom I will call Mistress Elvira...
...He is on the star circuit...
...He came to Paris as a little boy to be a star...
...That man is an angel," Barbara Stone said a hundred times...
...44 She is very pretty in a cold sort of way, with black nails and a thing for leather clothes...
...You were at an Air Force base in Germany...
...He went with her to every medical appointment...
...About five minutes into the trip, I said, "You know, I'll just drive in my Caddy and follow you...
...You should know," he said, "ho-ho-ho...
...Still, life ebbed and flowed and then flowed and ebbed for Steve and Denise and within a few years after I moved here, Steve and Denise were divorced...
...Maybe like many husbands, The American Spectator • February r 9 98 59 yours truly included, he had once put fame or money ahead of his wife...
...The Dutch were bombed...
...Forbes "Researchina Insurance companies can be confusina and tedious...
...As always, I did not like walking to my car and going home...
...A stewardess came over and flirted with him...
...Good for timid souls like me...
...The passengers are people, with all of people's weaknesses...
...She reminded me that we had worked together on "Howe High," the funniest pilot in history...
...To distract myself from being poisoned, I am asking Elvira who wrote various books: Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist (and isn't that a sad, sad story, by the way, poor Nancy and evil Bumble...
...The premiums vary wildly...
...She came running up to me on mylast visit to D.C., demanded to know if I was in fact Ben Stein, and attached herself firmly to me...
...They swore they would give me a free room next time...
...No, thanks...
...Did Nixon make Pol Pot...
...Elvira looked at me slyly and then continued to eat her crab cakes...
...It went for a more reasonable $620 per night, almost embarrassingly Spartan...
...I kept thinking to myself, "I am sitting here a few inches away from Priscilla Presley...
...In a second a friendly guy came on the line, told me he loved my show, and asked what he could do for me...
...If it's not weapons, it's economic...
...But the constant in their lives was each other...
...Yeah...
...Good Housekeeping "Quotesmith ranked more than 250 policies for Forbes...
...Friday I dropped off my sturdy, speedy Oldsmobile at the Avis counter at National Airport where a stunningly beautiful blond woman waited on me...
...When I drove her back to her dorm, she was obviously angry at me...
...But I did not make a date to take him to lunch...
...Some might have said he thought too much about his career when they were married...
...She'll have an X-ray showing she has hardly any insides left, and then she'll go out to a rock concert," Barbara said...
...she asked...
...I love her...
...Priscilla asked as we stood outside on a sidewalk in Whither...
...That's the main thing...
...They became dear friends, helpmates, soulmates...
...Then onto the US Airways Shuffle, and then...ugh...
...In the meantime, her husband, Steve Greene, had his ups and downs...
...The passengers could be afflicted with alcoholism with its attendant affective disorders such as lurching crazily around the cabin or kicking the seat in front of them...
...Sunday j ust as I was leaving my room, I saw some Wall Street Journals next to the wastebasket...
...The show went well anyway...
...Do you have any cough syrup...
...I can't believe it...
...I called the desk, called security...
...Many of you died on nights a lot colder than this...
...No, actually, she has a good sense of humor so she was probably just teasing me...
...What the heck...
...Then she giggled...
...I had a really polite man next to me...
...He came up to me and hugged me...
...Then that marriage ended and the real estate boom became a full-fledged catastrophe...
...I could see the clouds scudding by the moon over the Potomac River...
...The date rape drug...
...This is a big change from real life, where I usually have the dogs snatching food out of my hands while I try to eat, or else have my son demand more bacon from me while I am trying to sleep...
...I shopped from my own office and found the best deal available...
...For—and I am not kidding here — $750 per night...
...We give youdetailed- policy information incl ding the latest re it from A.M...
...I remember when you were first in the news back in about 1959...
...I asked...
...Probably they do...
...She had hidden my travel itinerary...
...Use the Quotesmith insurance price comparison service before you buy or renew any life insurance policy...
...I added...
...You think I'm crazy...
...Not a problem for the man with OnStar in his Caddy...
...How about any rohypnol...
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...From there I walked down Fifth Avenue to see the ice rink and the fabled Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center...
...At the Pierre...
...With her incredibly handsome son, whose name is, and I am not kidding, "Navarone...
...What sort of nutcases are they mak60 February 199 8 • The American Spectator ing in college these days...
...The idea is that I have a bald spot, and then I have a toupee on top of that...
...I hurtled down the 101 behind my guide...
...Then at the huge "four level" interchange in downtown L.A., he turned in one direction but his directions told me to go in another...
...Is this at the same high school where my mother went in the 192o's...
...She laughed a lot and wanted to be a star...
...He is too big to easily pick up now...
...God bless that boy and all of the people who made my little home possible...
...In it, she seductively ate an hors d'oeuvre out of my hand...
...No, of course I do not have any," I said...
...As in The Guns of Navarone...
...Meanwhile, Steve was with her at every crisis, at every lonely moment, at every downward lurch toward eternity...
...She looked radiant, magnificent, sexy...
...If you don't need anything but companionship from it, Washington is a great place...
...But when Bob Tyrrell heard this and asked her what her times were in various events, she completely blanked...
...They had a nice apartment and a used Mercedes convertible and seemed very happy...
...I brought her to the American Spectator dinner on my last visit, and she told me she was a competitive swimmer...
...I think I actually do have some cough syrup," I said...
...This puts more dramatic tension on the hero to resolve a plot point, and moves the story along...
...Beauty here can take many forms...
...Or give me directions...
...Then, about two years ago, Denise was diagnosed with aggressive liver cancer...
...Then there was a woman who seemed to really have it in for me, why I do not know...
...That was her story in Hollywood as far as I could tell...
...The panelists included Arianna Huffington, who END INSURANCE CONFUSION FOREVER...
...At home, my little wifie was reading a mystery...
...I got over to my dressing room in the morning chill, and then to makeup...
...Yes, it could be and it was...
...She is very pretty in a cold sort of way, with black nails and a thing for leather clothes...
...The same way I caught Priscilla...
...I might have some in my suitcase...
...I hope we meet again...
...He got hooked up with a writing partner and made some money...
...Across the aisle from me, in the one lone seat in the middle in first class, was a tall, handsome, very muscular looking black man with a haunted look, like portraits of slaves in horrible slaves ships...
...Get it...
...She had a faint inkling of my show, and we talked about that briefly...
...But I still don't like it...
...He is the star of Amistad...
...They were so good to me and now suffer so much just for trying to teach...
...Good-bye, Denise, with your magnificent cheekbones and flashing dark eyes...
...The King's grieving widow...
...nirvana...
...Priscilla," I said...
...The plane was fine...
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...It was all around me, carrying me, loving me...
...I looked at Priscilla's lovely, beautiful face...
...It must have been frustrating...
...He had seen the movie and always liked the name...
...He led her through novel treatments and surgery...
...Then I read about Clinton wanting us to "de-alert" our nuclear forces even if the Chinese and the Russians don't...
...Like a big brother welcoming me after I had been in a distant city...
...He's from Benin, a country in West Africa...
...And here he gestured with his hands at first his eyes and then his chest, where I guess his soul is...
...My suspicion is that she makes up a lot of things...
...Normal-44 I am sitting a few inches away from Priscilla Beaulieu Presley...
...ly, I would have nothing to do with people like this if I could avoid it...
...All around us are people smoking vile cigars and cigarettes...
...Did you ever think when you were at Yale that you'd be working on having a dog eat turkey off your head...
...He had a good job at a studio...
...She claims I was mean to her years ago on another show, but I do not recall it...
...If you want, I'll bring you some tomorrow...
...The daily challenges that fight against peace of mind...
...They didn't have a genocide...
...With her was a boy of about Tommy's age who kept calling her Mom...
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...And isn't it amazing that we take it for granted that the usual college student will know almost nothing...
...By all accounts, she was a fine mother...
...She comes from Romania, has sharp incisors, and is slightly wacky...
...When I got into the Caddy, I felt as if I were back home...
...He sold a couple of scripts that got made into movies...
...Meanwhile, I am working with Priscilla Presley...
...More than twenty years ago, the gears were beginning to roll to bring me to Hollywood...
...So there we all are in the makeup and hair trailer and Priscilla is patiently keeping me company and picking little wig hairs off my suit—shades of Candy Bergen doing the same thing on "Murphy Brown...
...Denise had just met a new beau, but it was Steve who stepped up to the plate...
...This is the straight Commie line, first put forth in a book by a man named Shawcross...
...All good things...
...The passenger could have bipolar disorder, with screaming highs during the time of the flight...
...She is a student at George Washington University...
...So they want to disarm America—global warming prevention, de-alerting, wrecking the armed forces by compulsory sex mixing...
...Good-bye, Priscilla Beaulieu Presley...
...Now, I know I have assumed the risk because I am in a bar...
...Internally, she deteriorated rapidly...
...I approached him in his dressing room and told him I hoped we were not there to talk about Nixon...
...She was wearing a peasant skirt and a blouse...
...Saturday A big day...
...She became a hard-working real estate agent while the market was booming in the mid and late 1980's...
...Across the aisle from a screaming toe-tapper...
...Will the man in front of me lean his seat back into my face...
...Anyway, the flight ended successfully, and my father was in fine fettle, and life is good...
...Barbara Stone, the mother of one of Tommy's classmates and a dear Stein family friend, had been Denise's best friend since college...
...Maybe I'll catch him when he's working with me on a movie...
...In fact, my nephew told me that Belzer was on the Comedy Central Daily Show a few days ago saying he would "bury me" if I tried to defend Nixon on the Town Hall show...
...she asked eagerly...
...There weren't thunderclaps," Steve said...
...She didn't cry out or scream...
...This fake toupee process takes forever and it's a bit cold out on this day and we're all huddling inside...
...Do you have any...
...Are you out of your mind...
...I felt happy about everything...
...I couldn't sleep so I read about Clinton wanting us to have unilateral economic disarmament to prevent "global warming"— a totally unproved phenomenon and a totally not credible threat according to what I read...
...We'll meet somewhere down the road...
...I settled into it as if I were seeing my big brother after being off in the wars...
...At a certain point in the proceedings, I had to have powerful glue applied to my head so that a fake bald spot could be attached...
...They all came up and clucked...
...I didn't bother to ask her why...
...She has a tiny bit of a sneer on her face...
...Oh, well...
...It's my friend...
...One was really young and thin and super gorgeous...
...Yes, but the Cambodian character is different...
...When I got back to the first class cabin, I leaned over to my neighbor and said, "So, how is it being a star...
...Then, to work filming a few scenes for the camera...
...Back at the Pierre I noticed something...
...I can remember them well from law school...
...You want me to give you `roofies...
...The night was brutally cold but I was in a great mood, probably from being recognized so much at Merchants, probably just from being alive on such a beautiful night...
...He laughed a hearty but somehow nervous laugh...
...His father is Priscilla's long-time mate, a man of Italian heritage named Garibaldi...
...Then, as happens in Hollywood, that came and went...
...Some months ago, the disease came back with a vengeance and this time nothing could stop it...
...Could it be the co-star of my scene...
...Competition...
...And what did the driver have: a thirty-year-old Mustang without proper seatbelts, air conditioning, or heater, with very questionable steering and squishy brakes...
...I walked back to the River Inn by the turning maples, down 25th Street by the lovely neat row houses...
...At 7 a.m., a young man showed up at my door to drive me to the site of my shoot, a house in Whittier, Richard Nixon's former home town, about an hour away by mighty freeways...
...Cancer is a wily, determined foe...
...He gave me directions...
...limmm," I thought...
...Tommy was sitting cross-legged on his trampoline, reading a book about dragons...
...I love that...
...Even at my modest rate of pay that comes out to about one round trip to Washington, D.C...
...The dog who is the hero of this movie sniffs the turkey...
...I have a reservation for a park view room, that is, looking over Central Park...
...I walked across Central Park South to join my sister, her husband, and my nephew for dinner at a really cheerful, lively spot called Fiorello's...
...Powerful...
...A loud party of drunken young people had started next door to me...
...Maybe one-third of them will suffer from one form or another of mental illness...
...They work as teachers in the high school of Monticello, New York...
...Wow, was she good looking...
...I worked with him on a project and he was not just good, but brilliant...
...Or, was she, perhaps, a spy for the Enquirer...
...The Web Magazine "Quotesmith provides a list of all insurance companies & plans that match specific needs...
...Many, many, many people at the bar talked to me and asked for autographs and wanted to play "Win Ben Stein's Money...
...They blinked, lighting him in blue, red, green, and then blue, red, and green again...
...Then just at the point when I am getting on my high horse and humiliating the hero of the movie, the dog grabs the turkey from my head...
...When I moved to New York, I met his wife, an Italianate goddess—thin, shapely, with lovely features...
...Fun capital of the universe...
...We talked about our favorite restaurants, our favorite beauty spots in Southern California, where our children go to school...
...I complained mightily to the front desk...
...It's a federal crime to give them to you anyway...
...She looked immortal...
...Then, treats for the dogs, rubbing the cat's stomach, and then to bed...
...You can get in a lot of trouble around wacky women...
...Untreatable...
...But we met and had several nice talks before the project died...
...When I got here, I soon realized that their lives were fully as complicated as everyone else's...
...They can look right into your soul...
...Somehow it did not get picked up...
...The problem with him is that like many people who don't know much, he hates Nixon...
...Steve laid down every one of his business projects, his own exercise, his romances, everything to take care of Denise...
...Yes, indeed...
...Now, he's represented by ICM...
...So was I." We talked for a long time about what it was like being on an Air Force base and how she was originally from Canada, and then we went back onto the set...
...Have any of them...
...But his is the most happy face on earth...
...With OnStar guiding me, I actually got there before the guide...
...The form could be uncontrollable anxiety, one of any number of affective disorders such as talking too loud, tapping one's foot rapidly and noisily, making random noises such as savagely tearing articles out of newspapers, hitting laptop keys loudly...
...I can't believe it...
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...she asked...
...She married a painter, had children—one boy and then twins...
...I finally got to sleep at about four...
...I got myself changed to a room with no view but a lot of elevator noise...
...Thank you, God, for parents, sister, wifie, Tommy, ancestors, all of the soldiers and sailors and airmen, policemen, firemen, teachers, doctors who keep this little ship afloat...
...Yes," she said...
...knew, I was on my way to the set...
...Anyway, we are here having crab cakes with Aram Bakshian, my dear pal from Nixon days...
...Then he sees it...
...To see him is to be transported to paradise...
...On a typical passenger plane, there are perhaps two hundred people...
...That's the part that makes it all worthwhile...
...Looking great but not getting the gig...
...I haven't read these...
...To hold him tight and smell his hair...
...This story is meant to tell something about the real Hollywood, where there are mainly just people, with good motives and bad, where human beings can rise to great heights of bravery and self-sacrifice, where unselfishness can stand as tall and steadfast as anywhere else...
...Denise died on Monday," he said...
...Those eyes of his...
...But today, on flight u to IAD, I was in major luck...
...I thought you would like to know...
...What's it about now...
...Will I be seated next to someone who kicks my chair and drives me mad...
...When I got to the airport, the valet brought me my wonderful Caddy...
...It's a story of human beingsin Hollywood...
...He runs off with not only the turkey but my toupee, and then I am embarrassed and get even angrier at the hero...
...I asked...
...I see girls out on Broadway—the Broadway in Monticello—hooking after school," Steve said...
...I remembered how beautiful she had been back in New York twenty years before...
...Even in the imperial Caddy, I felt sad going away from the set...
...It was about taking care of Denise...
...The host is Richard Belzer...
...By truly amazing luck, I had moved out of that seat and into mine at the last minute...
...Fifth Avenue is a parking lot...
...She just stopped...
...What they have given me, after an hour and a half wait, is a miserable room with almost a park view, and stale cigar smoke so thick you could use it to re-surface your driveway...
...Poor Elvira was coughing and sniffling like a madwoman...
...Yes, even in the warm embrace of my Cadillac, I hated to leave the set...
...Alas, many of their students are skinheads, gang-bangers, and worse...
...She looked more mature now but still lovely...
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...Where to go...
...When I was a child, they took care of me for a week while my parents were in Europe...
...He reluctantly brought me back to the gleaming Caddy...
...She mentioned her main love attraction, a Tahitian prince named Tehu-tu, so I don't think I am going to be in that particular derby, not even as a fantasy...
...No possible way...
...When the show was over, some of us went down to a cafe on Columbus Avenue for a delicious series of snacks and drinks...
...She played a high school girl and I played a teacher...
...Insecurity...
...She died holding his hand with one hand and her sister's with another...
...By the way, that's a good thing, not a bad thing...
...With us were my twin cousins, some fifteen years older than I am, Joe and Steve...
...It was safe, secure, well protected...
...Yeah, I'll bet...
...You were my dream girl, Priscilla...
...The maid had balled up my suit into a heap and then put it in the suitcase...
...every sixty minutes...
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...Tuesday A sad phone call from my pal Steve Greene...
...And that I would be doing it with Priscilla Presley...
...I had a small deal with Warner Brothers back in 1972 to sell them a tiny, barely paid story outline about a sequel to Rebel Without a Cause...
...One of them attaches itself to my toupee...
...In the first class cabin of a crummy two-class flight, there might be say thirty-six people...
...Definitely upset me a lot...
...I told him where I wanted to go...
...By the way, I love Candice Bergen no matter what anyone else says...
...I was on a chair between two beautiful women...
...Basically, the Clintons, like all of their kind, have never stopped pushing for unilateral disarmament...
...The only problem is that it's seventeen days before Christmas...
...They took me to the movies, to miniature golf, to New York City, to Peerless, to buy me a camera—an Olympus...
...They didn't have a genocide...
...They had just gotten out of the Army in Korea and had funny stories to tell...
...He had run Christmas lights all over the walls...
...He lives right near me in L.A., by total chance...
...I do know that her kids are devout students, unlike a certainlittle golden godhead I know...
...I was impressed...
...But still, it definitely scared me...
...We didn't wrap, as they say, until about eleven at night...
...Priscilla Beaulieu Presley...
...You want Ben Stein, famous TV star, to give you, a college student, `roofies' in the bar of the Ritz-Carlton...
...She came over looking so amazingly beautiful that I gasped...
...My Caddy is not just my car...
...She and Steve moved out to Hollywood about a year before I did and endlessly told me about how great life was here...
...One way to aet to Mow the market...
...When you work on the set for about fifteen hours the way we did today, you first get straight time, then time and a half, then wonderful, glorious golden time, which means double time...
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...I headed east on the 12-lane lo Freeway, and my Mustang guy headed south on the 5. What to do...
...Peaceful...
...She smiled and waved self-deprecatingly...
...In the event, hardly any work was done...
...Well, I quickly saw it would be of no use to try to convince him...
...There was also A. Whitney Brown, who was very funny, Brian Unger, ditto, and Jonathan Katz, also funny...
...He is a stand-up guy who made good on "Homicide...
...Then she was cremated and Steve spread her ashes by a great oak in a forest east of Los Angeles...
...Otherwise, it won't be very funny...
...Then, just as I was coming to terms with that nonsense, I smelled a huge whiff of my nemesis smell—cigars—on my non-smoking floor...
...Who could that be...
...I am at the Pierre again...
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...Yes," he said with great emotion...
...Then I couldn't find my car and driver, but then, there he was, and next thing you know I am off to the airport...
...Then I said, "Yum," and she said, "Yum...
...I went into my son's room...
...Ben," she said, "I was fourteen then...
...We have students who tell us to go f--k ourselves if we ask them for their assignments," Steve said...
...She hugged me and kissed me on the cheek when we parted...
...Then I walked through coach and there was a woman reading Newsweek with a big cover photo of, well, a black man looking like the lead slave in Amistad, that new movie about slaves...
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...I saw her about a year ago when she was showing property...
...That's not my problem tonight...
...One day, long ago indeed, when I was producing or casting or doing something on "Fernwood Tonight," Denise auditioned for the show...
...We were to travel at rush hour...
...Then I bid farewell to the lovely scene at the bar (called Merchants) and headed back to the Pierre...
...He got the idea somehow that because Nixon bombed Cambodia, that led straight to the genocide in Cambodia long after Nixon left office...
...I don't know where he gets the strength...
...I am off to a studio in East Harlem to do a Comedy Central Town Hall...
...In about thirty seconds he gave me careful, easy-to-follow directions, and next thing I BENJAMIN J. STEIN is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Hollywood and Malibu...
...Wednesday H ere is the problem with being on an airplane...
...Denise would be lost without him...
...These guys never give up...
...Incurable...
...My little beauty neighbor, thelovely Wendy, played my girlfriend in a scene...
...Well, all's well that ends well...NOT...
...If he had, he made up for it in spades, in no-trump...
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...Steve had projects and ventures, some more successful than others...
...Let me tell you about Denise Carpitano Greene...
...You poor, poor child," I said to her...
...He studied treatments of every kind, every modality, every avenue offering even a ray of hope...
...She did not get the part...
...We have students who threaten to kill us if we ask them for their homework," Joe said...
...We did the take many times and finally got it right, and off we went for more hair work...
...58 February 1998 • The American Spectator If Mark Steyn knew her he would love her, too...
...At three a.m...
...I was next to a man from Queens who runs driving ranges and swears they make millions...
...My father and I talked for a while about investment scams, and then we said good-night...
...Call us at 1-800-431-1147, 24 hrs...
...I am crammed in with them, with no possibility of escape...
...The power at WB who bought it, Eddie Bleier, assigned a young colleague, Steve Greene, to work on it with me...
...I'll take it and run...
...But, for reasons I never knew, that also came and went...
Vol. 31 • February 1998 • No. 2
