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Authors: Julie Salamon
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julie Salamon is the author of
Hospital
, about the inner workings of a big city hospital, as well as the
New York Times
bestseller
The Christmas Tree;
the true-crime narrative
Facing the Wind;
the novel
White Lies;
the film classic
The Devil’s Candy;
a family memoir,
The Net of Dreams;
and
Rambam’s Ladder.
Previously a reporter and critic with the
Wall Street Journal,
and the
New York Times,
she has also written for the
New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,
and the
New Republic.
ALSO BY JULIE SALAMON
Hospital
Rambam’s Ladder
The Christmas Tree
Facing the Wind
The Net of Dreams
The Devil’s Candy
White Lies
This version came from Anne Betteridge, a Mount Holyoke friend who became the model for Leilah, the shy anthropologist in
Uncommon Women.
She told this story to Christopher Durang, the playwright, when they met at Yale Drama School.
This is almost verbatim the story told by Michael Feingold, chief theater critic for the
Village Voice,
after Wendy died.
Or Disney fication, depending on your perspective; Disney, Viacom, and other large companies eventually became the backbone of the commercial development that gave new life to the area’s theaters while altering its character, with the growth of generic “theme” stores that are not connected to New York culture.
Nine years later she became famous as Ann Kelsey, a lawyer on NBC’s
L.A. Law,
a series that dealt with the social issues of the day, including abortion, late-in-life pregnancy, gay rights, and the like.
Called “Husbands,” the story (which appeared in the October 22, 1979, edition) is about a group of twenty-two husbands who live together after separating from their wives. The wives begin dating and taking classes while the husbands despair and sit around moping and reading
Madame Bovary,
trying to understand their wives’ psychology.
The British-American actor was known as collaborator with the great Orson Welles but in 1973 became more famous as the demanding law professor in
The Paper Chase,
a popular movie about the tribulations of first-year students at Harvard Law.
After she and Ed Kleban finally broke up, they remained friends. After he died in 1987 at age forty-eight, of cancer of the mouth, Wendy spoke at his memorial service and then served on the board of the Kleban Foundation, which the lyricist established to give an annual hundred-thousand-dollar award to promising songwriters.
He was a first-year associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, one of New York’s leading corporate law firms when he met Joseph Perella, the sole operator in the new mergers and acquisitions department at First Boston Corporation, a prominent investment bank. Perella was so impressed by the smart, blunt young man that a year later, 1977, he hired Bruce, doubling his salary to the then-enormous sum of a hundred thousand dollars a year and changing the course of his career.
Walter and Lucie Rosen began entertaining their friends with musical evenings when the house was completed in 1939. After their only son died flying over Germany in World War II, they decided in 1946 to establish Caramoor as a performing-arts center; which it remains today.
The two had met in the late 1970s, when Gutierrez had directed Evans in
A Life in the Theatre
by David Mamet, and then they’d worked together during the Playwrights Horizons production of
Geniuses
in 1982.
The article was based on a study by a Yale sociologist. On November 11, 1989, the
New York Times
reported, “Marriage Study That Caused Furor Is Revised.” As usual, the correction came late and received far less notice.
Wendy mentioned the shoes in
Isn’t It Romantic;
Morton Hack, certified pedorthist, son of the ripple-sole inventor, Nathan Hack, wrote her a thank-you note.
He won for Best Music and Lyrics and shared the Tony for Best Book with James Lapine.
In 1998 Kakutani won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
In “How I Spent My Forties,” an essay that appears in
Shiksa Goddess.
This not-for-profit organization is aimed at making theater accessible to people who can’t afford it, TDF is in charge of the city’s half-price TKTS booths as well as programs to develop new audiences.
Lucy Jane was a name Wendy liked. In
The Object of My Affection,
when Nina asks George, the gay best friend she loves, who was his first sexual partner, he surprises her by saying Lucy Jane, his high-school girlfriend. Wendy told both Jane Rosenthal and Mary Jane Patrone that the Jane part was for them.
Joseph Heller, her mentor, was struck by this disease in 1981 and subsequently wrote about it in a memoir called
No Laughing Matter.
Wendy’s work laid the groundwork for the popular television series about four single career women living in New York, which ran between 1998 and 2004. Coincidentally, Sarah Jessica Parker, who played the main character in
Sex and the City,
had small parts in
The Heidi Chronicles.