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against Citibank, charging that she was fired for being too
beautiful and, therefore, too distracting to the men in her of-
fice. She claims thaI she wore modest, work-appropriate
clolhes, so her dress wasn't the bsue. The issue, it seems, is the
same one that keeps women in some parts of the world cov-
ered from head to toe, and that is thai the mere glimpse of a
woman's ankle can turn men into snch animals that all of
society will break down. Somehow we've managed to thrive with
women showing no! only their ankles but their brains, having
pushed their way into the workplace alongside men. But it does
raise the question, are women really that distracting [omen? \Ve've
all heard at leasl one variation on the "statistic" that men think
about sex every six minutes (10, some say; every hour if they're on
deadline; more than would be expected when there's a newborn in
the house; etc.). I'm not sure anyone's ever evell bothered to survey
women on the same subject. (Sadly, for some women I know, just
thinking about sex more than once a month seems like a 10L) SO
what, exactly, do men think about when they think about sex? Is it
sex with their girlfriends, wives, lovers, drinking buddies? Sex
with strangers? Movie stars? Themselves? The men on our staff
dammed up: No way, not going there. Man secret.
\\lell then, I'll have to rely on my own highly research:
I've watched men watching women, observed them observing us,
and I'm always struck by the unconscious-seeming way their heads
turn, their eyes go up and down, registering a female in the vicinity.
It's like an evolutionary tic, so consistent is the response. For a lot of
women, the idea that their man is even lookingat another woman is
tetTibly upsetting, a threat and challenge to their own attractive-
ness. I've told my friends for whom this is true to test the reverse:
Does seeing Javier Bardem ("The L::wer," page 144) make them
want to dump their boyfriends? And, really, aren't men as capable
as we are of separating the rich, complex feelings of love and lust for
their partners from the momentary pleasure of admiring a good-
looking person? Wel l, according to the (safely anonymous) male
writer Like It Like That?" (page 184), they are, they can,
and they do. And, he explains, it's not a contest anyway. When a
man looks at a woman, it's almost always in appreciation: In that
Marxist way, we all have something to give.
Unraveli ng the mysteries of a man's heart is among the many
things we do here at ELLE. And we believe that good writing
about that subject, and about most every thing else, can help illu-
minate the mysteries of our own hearts as welL This month, we
take a peek at the desires of the editors who produce all this illu-
mination, in our annual Editors' Picksissue. I realize that "editors'
picks" seems sort of redundant; editors choose everything you
see in the magazine each month-and every day on ELLE.com.
From accessories to books to movies to CDs to the tiny credits on
each page telling you where to tlnd things, all of it is chosen from
thousands of items and ideas "out and edited to reflect a
sensibility, a tone, and a look that add up to I::LLE.
Dne thing you don't get to see regularly, though, is what, among
the myriad choices available, the editors buy, see, consume them-
selves-what they pursue in their ofT-hours. Who knew that Style
Director Kate Lanphearcovets Sophia Loren-red nail polish,orlhat
been-there, done-that Fashion News Director Anne Slowey has to
have a fur knuckle duster this fall (to pet her dogs with)? What always
comes through is the b'Cnuine passion all the editors have for their
particular markets or beats. When I tlrst working in mag-d-
zines, J was taken aback by the low-level contempt I saw: The editor
who covered politics thought the pop-music critiC..'l were flivolous;
the music editors found the articles editors ponderous and badly
dressed. And while Ilike to believe that there is some cheery bonho-
mie and mutual among departments at ELL, I'm also
aware of the deep personal investment most editors have in what
they're covering and that you need as much experience and knowl-
edge to choose a handbag as you do to interview an artist. As with
anything, the more you know about "it" (Hollywood, tine jewelry,
the environment, the fashion world, the literary world-all of which
we cover), the more layered and complex it becomes. My job is to al-
ways ask the editors: What makes this choice ELLE? How do we
bling in new voices and ideas while maintaining our point of view?
Take cover b';r! Drew Barrymore, or Drew, as we all know her,
making her fourth appearance on our cover, "The Future
(page 196). What , you wonder, is there new to say about a person
who's been in the public eye for so long? A lot, I'm happy to report.
Drew is one of those women whose trajectory from kid star to wild
starlet to hardworking/hard-dating young actress to now full -
fledged grown-up and widely respected artist in some ways mirrors
our OWIl. \\le've watched her grow, and as we always do with celeb-
rities, we've at the same time projected our own lives and problems
and triumphs onto her narrative. And, of course, her fashion
choices, her hairstyles and makeup looks, the evolution of her face
from apple-cheeked cUlie to womanly beauty-all that too in some
way reflects us. We keep asking her to be on our cover because
there's something strong and inherently ELLE in her story.

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Thank you for the excellent Kristen
Stewart interview and incredibly sexy
photographs. She's such an intriguing
and complicated actress. It's refreshing
to see and hear someone who actually
cares about what they do. I'd never read
[ LL before this issue. However, after
reading it cover to cover, I'm going to
check it out again.
I..vrruilll!, Chino IliUs. ell
I've been waiting anxiously for you to
put one of the ladies from Twilight on
the cover of your magazine, and I was
pleasantly surprised to see that it was
Kristen Stewart! I admire her for being
distinctly different from many actors
her age. She's serious about her work
and doesn't take her fame as a ticket to
act like an empty-headed diva. I don't
think she's given enough credit. Thank
you for such a wonderful article, as well
as the gorgeous photos.
April. EI Paso. T\
BENT OUI Of SHAPE
I'm appalled by the advice given
by E.Jean in yourJune issue. I'm
amazed that you would publish a
column implying that workplace
discrimination is acceptable. To act
Wow, thanks for showinq me
a glimpse of the wonderfully
awkward Kristen Stewart
["The Kristen Stewart Saga,"
June 2010]. What a breath of
fresh air to have an actress
come across as being so
real. I may not be a Twi-hard,
but I sure can see why fans
are so captivated by her.
MajOr props to Amanda
Fortini on the article.
Hope, Columbia, SC
as though changing one's weight is as
simple as changing one's hair color
without laking into account genetic
factors, medical issues, and this woman's
possible past history of eating disorders
is irresponsible and ignorant. You should
know better.
I'la fOl/wi/
UNDERNEATH IT ALL
I adored Alexa Brazilian's story on
reconciling her demure tendencies with
a desire to rlaunt her femininity ["'Show
and Tell," J une 20101. 1 found it totally
relatable as I , as well as many women
I know, struggle to feel sexy in a way
that isn't vulgar. It's nice to see ELLE
recob'llize that each woman has her own
definition of what it means to be sexy.
Veil' }' JI'kCify
GO FIGURE
I thoroughly enjoyed Mam,>ie Hullock's
piece "'The Shape of Things to Come"
Uune 2010]. I look forward to seeing more
voluptuous models in your pages. As
Bullock said, I think fashion's new curves
are the first step toward a healthier ideal,
and, undoubtedly, ELL can playa major
role in affirming this trend.
A Z
EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED
Samira Nasr's styling for "In the Brights"
Uune 2010] was so chic and such a
brilliantly fresh take on sexy SUilliller
dreSSing. I' ve already started emulating her
style with some bold, body-conscious looks
of my own. All I need is a Gaultier bra and
I'm set!
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verse low-tops to rWlhy Monique Lhuillicrprincess gOWllS, it's
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Gardtll$) enjoys a good game of dress-up. When she arrived at cover shoot in an
Wang tee, gray Rag & Bone jea ns, and Steven by Steve Madden work boots, she
mation. OrinkingTcjava iced tea and excitedly browsing the rack of mostly S&M' inspired
Barrymore, whose romantic comedy Going tht Dislana (her second wit h on-again, off-again
friend Juslin Long) opens this month, showed no signs of timidity-no I even when she eyed <1, ,,",',
black lalex curtains and onyx brymnast rings. Eager to pump up her Btack
Beirut, Barrymore sli pped into a Dolce & Gabbana bra top and
those rings, and gave us her best shot.-Jolf I , , I (;0\-

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, Design MiamiIBascl director and cofounder
AM BRA braved delayed flights
and volcanic ash to make ilia April's Salone
Intemazionale del Mobile (Milan Fumiture
Fair) in time to seek out the latest interiors
masterpieces for this month's
(page lSI). "It's one of the most
. exciting events in the design community,"
says Medda, 28, who drives a
color Mercedes named Fern" and holds
degrees from the University of London in
Chinese language and Asian art. Current-
ly living of a sui tcase" between New
York City and Los Angeles, Medda, who
started working in art galleries at age 16,
says her taste in design has always led her
to compositions-contrasting
elements and eras that don't necessar-
ily live or mix Her idols and
inspirations range from film director Wong
Kar Wai to conceptual ru.1iSl John Baldes-
sari to indie rockers OK Go. Mter six years,
Medda recently stepped down as director of
Design Miami/Basel to on a variety
of exciting, soon-to-be-announced projects_"
showed up wearing pretty high heel s,"
writer VANESSA GRIGORJADlS of her
interview with August cover girl Drew Bar-
rymore ("The Future Perfect," page !9(i)
at the aclress's Flower Films production
office in West Hollywood. "Drew was ex-
tremely casual. She looked at me with this
face like, 'Why are )"Ou the one a11 dressed
up?' It was pretty funny_" Manhattan-raised
Grigoriadis has considered herself a profes-
sional writer since she took her first job as
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an editorial assistant at Nrw York mllbrazine
15 years ago. A versatile journalist who can
go as intereSiingly in depth on the oeuvre
of Lady Gaga as on the racial polilics of the
Obama marriage, the Wesleyan grad insists
that profiling celebrities isn't always as en-
tertaining as one might think, but she says
that is different .... People rea11y care
about her." A contributing editor for Vanity
Fair, Railing SWne, and Nrw lOrk ma/,razine,
Grib'Oriadis lives in Los An/,'Cles with her
husband, Craig, an architect. In her few
nonwriting hours, she practices border-
line unhealthy amount of Ashtang-d YOg-d"
and tendsto her backyard vegetable garden.
French designer. Given Lanphear's
lar look and well-established "fml<,tion
it's hard to imagine the platinum
working in any industry other than
ion, but the Washington, DC, ,,,ti,,--who
claims Gertrude Stein's career is the
she most admires-doesn't rule out
idea of a major occupation shift:
of becoming a social worker one
When it oon,,,'" n""ing:d",dlin",, ELLE
contributing editor "",,,,,o'c,","''''''-''''-''.J
pretty simple approach:
and Manhattan-
based Millea, who has been a writer for
23 years and has written for ELLE since
"You /,'Ct a lot more cooks in the kitchen 19% (her first assib'1lment was to interview
on a celebrity shoot," says ELLE. di- cover girl Tina Turner), pulled double duty
this month, profiling Javier Bardem
n Lover," page 144) and writing My
a portrait of designer Isabel M,,,,,,. Heart" (page 164), the latest installment of
"If Looks Could Kill " (page 228), a Rive her Beauty Adventure column. Born and
Gauche-meets-Goth take on up-and- raised in Rapid City, South Dakota, Millea
comer Ashley Greene_ "Any time you have has interviewed legions of A-listers over the
the nanny and the n utritionist weighing years; she countsJodie Foster, Michelle Wil-
in, you know you're in for trouble." (This Iiams, and \Varren Beatt y among her favor-
month's shoots, she reports, were happily ites but notes that Bardem is up there too.
drama-free. ) Lanphear is something of a "He loves music," she of the
street-style icon herself, thanks to an inter- and kind" Eat Pray L()1Jfactor. "And he has
national corps of bloggers who love to doc- a texting friendship with Eddie Vedder_" In
ument her sib'1lature punkish glamour. Af- between writing for publications like Pre-
ter years in the fashion trenches, she knows mint and Nrw York magazine and catching
how to tune out the background noise and up on episodes of Damages ("It's just so welt
find the right look for t he right shot-a task written-and it has Glenn Close!"), Millea
that she says wasn't difficult on the Marant is working on her first book: Ta ELLE aruI
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have seen f a d ~ come and go-remember bra lOpS over T-
shirts? Pants worn inside out?-and r almost never wish those
trends would cross over for men. But when designers unveiled
their new women's fall/winter collections this past spring, I admit
I fell a nicker of jealousy. For the first lime since lhe economic
plummet, I saw boatloads of real luxury on the runways: Massive
amounts of eroc and alligator, supple leathers, rich embellish-
ments, double-faced cashmere, and, grandest of all, piles and piles
of fur. You could fee! the dollar bills teetering down the catwalk
with every jewel-encrusted Louboutin pump. After seasons of
dark, moody restraint, I loved all the rich fashion pomp and cir-
cumstance: Goodbye black skirts, hello black skirts trimmed in
feathe rs and sequins!
Though I didn't make it to Pari s for the shows, I found Karl
Lagerfeld's Chanel collection to he one of the season's most inspir-
ing. First (oh no, fashion people aren't crazy), he
imported an enormous iceberg from
Sweden and dropped it in the middle
of the Grand Palais, praying, I'm
sure, that it wouldn't melt all over
the front-row ladies. Second, in the
midst of this mad scenery, he showed
an entire collection of rich, luxurious
fur. Fur for women, fur for men. Fur
coats, fur trims, fur booties, even
Chewbacca-style gorilla suits for
guys. But here's the Karl catch: It
was all fake. Bravo to this bold po-
litical statement! Still, I was more
fascinated by the fashion state-
ment, which echoes a belief I've
held for years: It 's okay-in
fact, it's totally chic-to fake it.
Faux fur has come a longway,
from something resembling toilet-
INTERN: Medinah Tiangco, from
Brooklyn; student at Fashion Institute of
Technology
FAUX REAL: Rabbit
HOW f'DSmETr: Real or not, the last thing
you want to do with a fur is wear it lilil<",-"
mother would. My generat rule for
wearing this second skin is easy: Keep it
and fun. I whimsical
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In this season of lush luxury, Creative
Director Joe Zee is cuckoo for the
affordable alternative: faux fur Here,
he shows ELLE's budget-strapped
interns how to fake it till they rnake it
seat covers to a material that's
indistine,'1lishable from the ani-
mal itself. And this season,
with all the pricey pelts flying
down the runways, r love the
notion that everyone, regard-
less of tax bracket or moral
agenda, can wear the trend.
Full disclosure: One of Karl's
fabulous fauxs will still set you
back about S8,000. But their
styli sh counterpart s don't have
to he expensive.
r set out to prove that point this month by finding some of the
chicest, coolest, cheapest faux fur options on the market and re-
cruiting ELLE's own army of hardworking, fashionable interns to
model them. I don't know ifany of these
ladies are vegetarians or political
activists, but I do know how much
they all make at the magazine.
Salary: zero. 'fthese kids are going to
wear this season's big idea-and
trust me, they all will-they need
an inexpensive alternative. Be-
sides, if you look and feel good
in somethi ng, isn't that the ulti-
mate luxury?
Unlike the interns, r don't
, , , . ' ~ .. know if r can ever pull off the
Big Pimpin' fur. But if Karl can
show it for men, the least' call
do is try. Can I be a Chanel-
wearing fashion editor like the
hrirls in my office? You decide.
Check out my faux fur test-dlive at
ELLE.com/JoeZee. But please, no
fur flack. It's all fake.
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INTERN: Lauren Kirk, from Los
Angeles; graduated from Pasadena
City College
FAUX REAL: Long-hair pony
HOW/,DSTYLErr: This dalmatan-print
chubby by Stefani Greenfield costs
about $230 (plus detivery to your door,
straight from HSN), but my favorite part
isn't the price-it's the versatility. It
works with everything from jeans and
T'shirts to long dresses. My suggestion:
Clash patterns with something printed,
like Lauren's dotted romper.
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leopard print has been a
slaple-and, oddly. a
neutral-in the closets 01 many
fashionistas ever since it was
great Diana
who not only wore
her spots as a uniform but also
furnished her home with them.
Nowadays, you can find replicas
everywhere from designer
runways to discount outlets, but
that's not to say you can't wear
it like a classic. This one from
Wren has an evergreen '60s
shape, a perfect match for two
pieces that are equally
enduring: the white tee and
'It How
because
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fur doesn't
c lobe fierce. For
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runs more on the conservative
side, I used it to
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. good
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not) jacket is the vest. an
easier-la-wear version of the
long-sleeved idea. Not only
does it feel less animalistic, it
can also be versatile enough
for any climate or occasion.
You can rock it three out of
four seasons a year and,
more importantly, wear it to
work or out at night-plus it's
not too heavy to keep on
indoors. With Jade, I layered
it over a spot 01 color,
keeping the look sporty
but with an exira dose of
sex appeal. Final flourish:
sky-high booties.
INffRN: Giliian Gertz, from
Great Neck, NY
FAUXREAl: Fox
HDWI'D STYlEfT: Who wouldn't
want to take fashion direction
from supercool stylist Rachel
Zoe, the glamour queen of
fashion personalities? It makes
perfect sense to offer a bit of
her headturning style at a
price even my intern could
afford, I love this vest from
Rachel's faux fur collection for
OVC.lt's the right blend of chic
bohemia and whimsical
elegance. And, of course, if
you're going to wear her vest.
why not do the Rachel
essentials? Finish it 011 with
wide'leg pants, a patterned
top, Ions of accessories, and
the requisite big sunglasses.
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Shearling coats haven't made
such a statement since the
19805, when oversize bomber
jackets and trenches lined in
nubby neece were all the rage.
What makes them new this
season is thal desib'1lers have
turned them inside out: Whal
was traditionally just a lining is
taking cenler stage, turning up
on cropped jackets, car coats,
and capes. Christopher Bailey's
Burberry Prorsum show was a
veritable homage to the fluffy
stuff, which was paired with
everything from silk ribbon
dresses to lace skirts. His
skit! at combining fine fabrics
with such sturdy outerwear is
subtle and ultrasophisticated.
Plus, the genius of shearling
is that it keeps you warm but
doesn't share in fur's inherent
snobbishness-it'll also look
great with your more casual
garb, such as jeans and chunky
sweaters. Phoebe Philo, who
in two seasons at CCline has
perfected the idea of utilitarian
luxury, knows the merit of
the big, simple gesture. Her
clothes, for all their simplicity,
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carry hefty price tags worthy
of their couturelike details.
Her showstopper for fall-in
a collection of gorgeous, long
shapes, such as her floor-
sweeping skirts, caftans,
and down-to-there white
blouses-was a below-the-knee
creme-anglaise-color shearling
cape that could double as a
sumptuous blanket on a chilly
nigh\. If you've ),'Ot the cash or
credii, it's a museum-worthy
investment to have and to hold
forever. Derek Lam's western-
inspired fall show was one of
his best in years. He mined all
urban-cowgirl vibe, sending
out models who were equal
parts Grace Kelly and pioneer
heroine, as if New York were
readying itself for a showdown
at high noon. His tan shearling
car coat, supersmart and
classic, is perfect for a high-
powered career ),rirl. Lam
showed it with eveningwear,
but it would work just as well
over tailored pants or a skirt.
At a recent charity event in his
architectural gem of a store on
Crosby Street, Lam racked up
more than $20,000 in sales in
just two hours. 'Vomen seem
to love his talent for creating
sophisticated American
sportswear with an elegant
edge. He's the hometown
answer to CCline, with a slightly
less pared-down si lhouette.
Add a soupyon of glamour, and
you get the difference.
Designers are obsessed with bustiers and
fluffy shearling. Fashion Know-It-All Anne
Slowey deconstructs dressing inside out
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Dear Celeste,
I'm not a fan of this season's
'50s redux trend. I just don't
believe women want to wear
anything that resembles a Mad
Men costume and so literally
calls 10 mind an era when
women were marginalized as
sex objects. \Ve've come a long
way, baby, but fashion will never
be free of historic context.
The only way to chanb'e the
meaning is to render it ironic,
and {'mnot sure designers
have succeeded this season. Of
course, it might be possible to
work bustiers without looking
like you're trying too hard to
rock the latest trend-but it
won'l be easy. Miuccia Prada
always riITs on the feminine
with a full measure of wit, and
her take on this come-hither
undergarnlent is perhaps
the most arch. Her Gina
Lollobri),rida-style ruffled bra
tops, A-line skirts, and dresses
that smack of the naughty
nonchalance of a smarty-pants
Lolita are perfect as
pieces, but it'll take a girl with
a lot of cheek to pull off this
look. It's an attention-grabber
that may leave a lot to the
imagination but offers little
in the way of versatility. You
won't be able to pull apart
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these looks without lOSing the
irony, and that relegates the
rumes to the costume shop.
Marc Jacobs' entire
show for Louis Vuitton was
dedicated to a woman who
has little to do but dress her
curves. His interpretation of
who this woman might be was
rather simple and decidedly
not ironic.
Still, his bustiers in 110rals
and exquisite fauvist solids
were brracefully done and
could be paired with tailored
pants or even jeans and look
tasteful. The bustier has been
one ofDo1ce & Gabbana's
signature pieces since their first
collection in 1985, when they
brought the Sicilian postwar
widow simmering onto the
runway with booy-conscious
skirts and sweaters. Never ones
to stray from their bombshell
DNA, this fall they whipped
up their bustiers in silks and
lacetrim satin. My fave was
their leopard-prillt version. A
peekaboo print like that under
a cardigan orjacket is your
best bet. If you're going to don
inner wear as outerwear, make
il overtly amusing.
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A new crew of back-to-nature designers picks up
where the Love Generation left off
indsey Thomburg, a flame-haired
free spirit whose e-mai l sign-off reads
desib'llS velvet burnout
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dresses from fabric she finds at the
Oregon Country Fair. Meanwhi le,
David Hershberger, who creates washed-
silk shirts and faded black pauper jackets for
.... ... ,... his Endovanera line--and who looks star-
tlinbtly like a you ngJohnny Depp-spends
leisure hours hiking Elysian Park, playing
music, and fishing. If the two seem to have
their beautifully bl issed-out heads in the
clouds, they're not alone. From New York
rrhornburg) to Los Angeles (Hershberger),
';;;;w",' I a growi ng b'TOUP of influential, under-the-
radar designers are focusing on a new kind of
earthy fashion, tuming back to the land and
finding inspi rdti on in nature, sunsets, and
skylarks. Similar to the '60s hippies and not
unlike today's locavore neofarmers, they
favor a look that is rooted in self-expression
and nonconfonnist ideas. The self-taught
Hershberger, who also designs a men's line
(both Endovanera-phonetically, End of an
Era-collections are sold at his hip Echo
Park boutique, FrontSt.), specializes in delib-
erately rumpled style: borrowed-from-the-
boys button-downs that have been soaked in
a bathtub then air-dried, as \.\-'ell as relaxed
wool jackets with hidden inside pockets,
"'like the oncs priests have to carry their rosa-
ries," he says. Add the requisite long, un-
washed hair; a floppy, wide-brimmed hat;
and jewelry made by a metalsmithing
friend-what, you don't haveone?-and the
image is complete. girls I hangout
with are tomboys," says the 28-year-old Cal
ifornian, whose muses include Warpaint's
Theresa Wayman and Meo<an Gold fronlthe
band We Are the \ Vorld.
in effortlessness and being comfortable act-
i ng like one of the dudcs." Thornburg, 31, de
buted her namesake li ne four years ago with
a range of NavajO-inspired cloaks, so ideal
for camping or concert carOUSing that they
l-emain a cult favorit e among the Opening
Ceremony set today. For fall, the designer,
who grew up i 11 Colol'3do a nd stud ied philos-
ophy at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, befol-e attending L.A.'s Fashion In-
stitute ofDesib'll & Merchand ising, branched
out to floor-length totem-print gowns, high-
waist crochet flair panl.s,and silk-velvet tops,
l iedyed by first-wave Oregon hippies.
interested in things that are natumlly psy-
chedelic," says Thornburg, whoseinfluences
range from Frida Kahlo to Native American
folklore. Right on.-ll IIInt-.) l\ Hfi IS
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EASYRDER
Alexander Wang expands his affordable
T line and gives his ultracool cult following
something to really slouch about
or all his antiestablishment
ideas, Alexander Wang is
onc incredibly shrewd busi-
nessman. Sure, he still fre-
quents underground New
York haunts with androgy-
nous off.dmy models and
various other beautiful
people. But as ringleader of
the city's young designers, the
26-year-old king of sexed-up streetwear
cool is also evolvi ng his in-demand ready-
lo-wear while keeping a very sharp eye on
the bigger picture. I dropped oUl of
Parsons after two years, almost more than
my creative need it was because of all the
ideas I had about the business, from mer-
chandising to how to market il. That's what
really excited me," says \ Vang, who talks
easily about his company's financials:
Ready- to-wear, accessories, and his lower-
priced T brand each make up roughly 33
percent of his $24 million empire. (Next
season, he plans to debut yetanotheras-yet-
untit led collection of tailored, greatest -hits
esselltials for the workplace, including
black suiting and white bULton-downs.)
Last year, when he launched T, a line of
slouchy, slept-in-Iooking cottons,
Wang ingeniously gave his cus-
tomers an open-ended selection of the
streelslaples thalhad made his name, while
allowing himself the room to push new con-
cepts on the runway. want consis-
tency iT] a brand, and T gave me the
freedom to think a litlle bit fur thert he says.
This fall , the secondary line has expanded
beyond tanks and T-shirts to include sweat-
shirt blazers, low-slung pants that resemble
long underwear, and plenLY of lean, layer-
able knits in his sib'1lature black well as
moss, brick, and wheat. At $245, a colton
poncho is the most expensive item in the
collection. Many details, such as velvet
paneling on a wireless bra or leather trim
on a jumpsuit, echo Wang's fall runway
show, which focused on deconslructed pin-
stripe banker suits and other corporate Wall
Street uniforms gone bad (with chenille
crop lOpS, black lace, and sliced micro-
skirts). "I don't want to stick to one look," he
says. I did the whole grunge bean-
ies thing, I could have just run with that, but
I didn't." No matter where he goes from
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rincess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, was one cheeky
chick. \Vhileherolder sister,Queen E.lizabeth I I, was stuck
at Buckingham Palace serving high lea to dignitaries, she
was whooping it up in Mustique, allegedly skinny-dipping
with gangsters and rock slars and hosting all-night rager.;
on her IO-acre waterfront estate. "Malb'llrct was a very naughty
royal in her day," says Mulberry's creative director, Emma Hill,
who named the brand's lalest handbag after the notorious headline
grabber. perfe<:t for Mulberry, which is all about fun, not se-
rious, somber, intellectual style." Buildingon Hill's ultrasuccessful
knack for sexing up classic English heritage with racy Iwists-
something that comes naturall y 10 the bawdy Brit-the new bag is
pure arm candy. Available in such shades as grape soda and plum
taffy (of course, there's black leather and b'Tay ostrich, too), the bag
boasts a kitschy emblem of bulldogs balancing teacups and cup-
cakes Oil their heads. In loving honor of Margaret , there's a gold
crown, 100_ "In England, there's always something slightl y
Hill says. '" want to make women squeal with leopard! Sequins!
Shazam fashion!" After its show during London Fashion Week,
Mulberry hosted a debaucherous party at Kensi ngton Palace, the
late princess's London home, featuring alterna-dance band Del-
phic, club-kid face painting, and life-size sequin leopards. Lon-
don's glitterati, including Alexa Chung (one oflhe brand's muses),
Liberty Ross, Amber Le Bon, and Pixie Geklof, came out to play.
At least one titled arislo, Lady Sophia Hesketh, did Margaret
proud, slealing behind the Orangery's shrubbery to sneak
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Design: ""A gianl computer keyboard
pattern from my spring collection:'
David says. "The name is Hacker
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P for Pri ngle. and C for Colelle.
Inspiration: "To pay tribute to how
much computers have become an
inescapable part of our lives:'
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People tend to take their Pringle of Scotland very personall y. Foractress TildaSwinton, the iconic knit-
wear line briJlI,'S up memories of her late !,rrandmolher, who worc a forest b<reen cashmere twinset riddled
with cigarette burns on the sleeves. Art star Ryan McGinley played in Pringle pullovers as a child in early-
'80s New Jersey. As Scottish mixed-media artist Luke Fowler puts it, ~ I don't know anybody who hasn't got
a Pringle jumper in his or her wardrobe." To celebrate its 195-year legacy, the brand teamed up with
London's Serpentine Gallery-codirectors Julia Peytonjones and Hans Ulrich Obrist are fans of the brand
and. represent many Scotlish artists-and. asked art-world in nuencers {including the aforementioned} to de-
sign their takes on the twinset. The limited edition results are $450 to $ 1,950 and available at Net-a-Porter
and Bergdorf Goodman. "Heritage is being humorist David
Shrigley. "But a Pringle sweater fits
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Design: "1 go lolhe beach a 101. and
the idea behind this sweater was
j ust when you look up into the sun
and see Ihe silhouelte of a seagull.""
InspIration: "My pholographk
philosophy is Tree as a bird: It sounds
kinda corny, but iI's really important to
me, the idea of freedom:'
Deslgn: "'t wanled lodo Ihe
best argyle pattern within the
collaborations. I'm sure I've
[succeeded]:' Inspiration; "A
classic argyle pattern. which I've
deconstrucled. which kind of means
I've messed about with it a bit.""
Design: ""My frfend Waris designed
the buttons, which have our names
on them, and a brooch in the shape
of a sword. a heraldic symbol. whiCh
wethoughl a proper SColtish twinsel
stloukl haw:' Swinton says. Inspiration:
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past is all about grandladies:'
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aspects of design that Pringle is
already famous for- the argyle and
Ihe tw;nset- and collage them into ... a
tank top that can be seen through the
windows of a turlleneck: ' lnsplration:
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Year With Thirteen Moons:'
Design: '"To keep the classic twi nset
as pure as it has always been but
add the waist 10 it. A waist'conscious
IWinset: Inspiration: "Thinking of
how many twinsels I wore In Ihe '60s
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all year round, inside and outside:'
Inspiration: "The German 1950s
avant-garde composer Karlheinz
Stockhausen.tn his early days, he was
very poor and just beginning to make
his first electronic music stUdies:'
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An idealistic KGB man plays for the
other team in this espionage thriller
that doubles as an affecting portrait of
a troubled hero. Karen Durbin reviews
Spy movies come in two fl avors: high-octane 007 ultraviolence
or the danger-haunted melancholy realism of J ohn Le Carre.
French director Christian Carion's smartly crafted new thriller,
L'Affaire FareWilJ, is in the latter vein, covering events in the Cold
War thal hastened the fall orlhe Iron Curtain. Subtle and fierce, it's
an espionage tale that runs the gamut ofhllman experience, from
unexpected family joy and illicit crazy-hoI sex to the wrenching
sighl of a man impatiently beckoning his own death.
Far(lJ)(llis based on a real-life fib'llre most of us have never heard
of: Vladimir Vetrov-called Sergei Grigorievin the movie-awl
onel in the Soviet Union's famously brutal KGB. In ]981, hopinglo
bring down a corrupt political system, he passed invaluable secrets
through French intermediaries to the Reagan administration, in-
cluding a list of KGB spies in the CIA, NASA, the Pentagon, and
the White House itself. Within four years, the Soviet breakup had
begun. A political idealist, Vetrov was personally violent. In Fare-
Carion keeps the idealism but gives his hero a more nuanced
fallibility as played by Bosnian director Emir Kusturica. Farewell
(the code name given Grigoriev by the French service)
plays out in French, Russian, and English, with a witly lineup includ-
ing Willem Dafoe as the ruthless head of the CIA, a down-home
Fred Ward as Ronald Reagan, David Soul as a Dick Cheney-like
character, and a second notable director, Guillaume Canel (Tell N()
Olle), as Pierre Froment, a French engineer working in Moscow who
is understandably rattled at becoming Grigoriev's messenger to the
other side. But the film's magnetic center is Sarajevo-born Kust urica,
who has seen more than his share of political tragedy. Tall and stoop-
shouldered with deep-set, baSh')' eyes and strong, sensual features,
his Grigoriev-who's a Francophile and a poetry lover-radiates a
wounded charisma reminiscent of a Bdmondo character, but older,
warier, and infinitely wiser. It 's to him we look for our common
humanity, warts and all.
A late bloomer, Carion, 47, made two previous films, both a
pleasure, The Girl From Paris (2001) and the even better Joyeux Nat!
(2005), about the famous Christmas Eve truce that broke out
among French, British, and Gemlan soldiers in World War I. He's
always been good with actors, hut in Fartwellhe shows new
tery. The movie doesn't just look beautiful; it's beautifully con-
structed visually and narratively. Farewell has an emotional depth
and complexity that's rare in spy thrillers, reOecting Carion's con-
cern for his characters' intimate lives and how they intersect with a
culture of surveillance and deceit. The lethal cat-and-mousegame
that drives the suspense never lets up, but it's also richly innected
with pathos, surprise, and even humor. (In an exuberant scene fea-
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turing Grigoriev's rebellious teenage son, concert footage of Fred-
die Mercury's romping, stomping, nearly naked performance of
"We Will Rock You" is put to hilarious dialectical use. ) Froment is
younger, smaller, and far more priggish than Grigoriev, lending
their partnership a Mutt andJeff tinge, comic relief from the anx-
ious reali ty that surrounds them. That reality defies the standard
movie cliches that cloak Moscow in gloomy shades of gray. Here,
the city looks surprisingly spacious and dean-even the blue sky
above it feels startling. Still, both men's marriages suffer from var-
ious kinds of state-innicted deception. Froment and his wife (an
underused Alexandra Maria Lara) are well aware that their house-
keeper is reporting anything suspicious to her government bosses.
And while the love between Grigoriev and his wife (the luminous
Lithuanian actress Ingeborga Dapkunaite) is palpable, he means it
when he says, live in lies and solitude_"
Farewelrs portrait of a totalitarian state is more effective for
being unemphatic; you feel the daily insult of a system in which
people on a subway platform renexively look elsewhere when
KGB men flash a badge at a woman and haul her away_ Who is
she? What has she done? Nobody wants to know. Carion shows
how fear spreads corruption like a virus, infecting everyone until
it becomes a backdrop that makes acls of conscience, heroism, and
simple kindness stand out in stark relief. L'Affaire Farewell isn't
about us versus them; by the movie's end, no country's hands are
dean. Hs real subject is repression: Totalitarianism eventually
fails because it's a lousy fit with human nature.
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WHAT TO
SEENOW
Two darkly amusing crime-
family dramas from England and
Australia. Down Terrace and
Animal Kinqdom. feel 50 realistic
Ihat they make The Sopranos look
like grand opera. Murder is all in a
day's dirty work for the men, but
the most compelling ch<lr<lcters
are the mothers, one poignant, one
chilling, and, lor all their middle-
aged domesticity, both as lethal as
the family business demands.
In Cairo Time, an elegant UN wife
(Patricia ClarkSon) and her husband's
former colleague (Syriana's dishy
Alexander Siddig) find themselves
intensely attracted. Powered by
their evocative performances, Ruba
Nadda's moving story of thwarted
love builds 10 iln exquiSite standoff
between passion and principle Ih<I!
may leave you in tears.
BUNDSIDED
When Arizona Cardinals star salety
Pat Tillman enlisted and died tJy
friendly fire in Afghanistan, the
Pentagon launched a cover up thai
his family Amir Bar-Levs
doc The Tillman Story nails Ihe
liars and shows us true American
heroes. The Tillmans emtJody what
the government conVeniently forgot:
thai a democracy wit hout truth is no
democracy al all. - K.D.
Katie Aselton insists she's not sure what happens at the end of The
Frrcbie, the film she wrote, directed, and stars in. No, really.
me, I' ve seen this movie, like, 300 times nowt says the first-time film-
maker, it keeps chan!,';ng-which is weird, because it's my
Improvised from a six-page outline, the incisive sliceof.
life indie follows Annie (Aselton) and her husband, Darren (Dax
Shepard), who "have a killer friendship," Aselton says, but rarely any
sex. Hoping 10 rekindle their lust, they grant each Olher one free
night with astranger-but whether the ever actually occurs
remains a smartly edited, well-concealed mystery. "I think you can
get a gooo read on someone whcn thcytryto figure out exactly what
happened," Asclton says. "It's telling of their relationships."
Aselton's real life relationship is itself telling. The 32yearold is
one half of a mumblecore power couple, having banked a slew of
screen credits alongside Mark Dupl ass, her indie aClor-writer-director
husband offouryears. He directed hcr in Thr Puffy Chair(2005) and
this summer's Cyrus, costars with her on The Lrague(back for its sec-
ondseason lhis fall}, and is herco-executive producer on The Freebie.
"I love working with Markt she says, "but he doesn't want to be the
obnoxious couple who keeps acting in stuff together. He's like, 'No
one wants tosee us together that much!'''-H
MR WONDERFUL
We first fell for 36-year-
old Josh Radnor as the
hopeless romantic Ted
Mosby on CBS How I Met
Your Mother. This month, we
can ogle him on celluloid in
Happythankyoumoreplease, a
heartbreakingly exuberant indie
that Radnor wrote, directed,
and stars in. -R.R.
Both your movie and How
I Met Your Mother center
around New Yorkers
"figuring it all out"-
what's the difference
between playing Sam
and Ted? [Sam) is
of messy and gets
himself into trouble.
I! was fun to play
a darker character
who was afraid
of relationships
and not longing to be in one. I
loved your confident female
characters-so where are
all the other movies with
the cool women? Basically, I
don't think studios are making
them. Sometimes I watch
the broad comedies coming
out of Hollywood and I think,
You know, sex is a big part of
people's lives, but is that really
the only thing men are ever
concerned about? People are
more complicated than they
appear in film or television. Not
that you're knocking TV. I don't
want to trouble with
to some
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are just things you can
explore in a movie that
you can't in 22 minut es
with a laugh track.
WI-JAT TO
PLAYNOW
WHAT'S lEfT BEHIND
Dark Night of the Soul, the long
<lwaited collabor<ltion between
Danger Mouse and Mark Linkous'
Sparkle horse, may be clollded by
Linkous untimely death earlier this
tJut it makes for a stunning
epitaph. With glJs\ vocalists
rangirK) from Julian Casablancas to
Wayne Coyne 10. yes. David Lynch.
the gauzy. ci nematic tracks are as
indelitJle as they are mesrnerizin(j.
CAUFORNIA LOVE
After meeling at NYU, the four
members of Chief went to their home
state of California 10 r!.'Cord Modern
Rituals. explaining all the fuzzy
sunshine beamirK) from their 6Dsish
detJut. The long haired, denimdild
Iwentysomethings pay homage
10 their influences- Tom Petty,
Neil Young- by partnerirK) earthy
harmonies with nononsense guitar.
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FEEL GOOD
Mystery Jets relentlessly catchy.
wonderfully odd pop music recalls
such forerunners as XTC (the
starryeyed Dreaming of AnOlher
World') and ELO (the harmony
drenched "Too Late to Talk""). Like
the mood enhancing tJrain chemical
for which the record, Serotonin,
is named, the BritiSh bands third
effort is happymaking stuff.
-JULIf: VADI'AL AND APRIL LOIfG
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WITH A BANG OR A TWEET
The always antically brilliant Gary Shteyngart tethers his narrative
to a diminutive muse and spins out a sublime dystopian fiction
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Tn a world much like ours, only worse-New
York City is a police state overrun with national
guardsmen from the provinces, the dollar is
everyone has melded with his or
her handheld media device (called iiPPiiriits),
books are considered smelly artifacts, and people
are ashamed to be caught reading-Lenny
Abramov, a balding, doughy, nerdy, book-loving
39-year-old son of Russian J ewish immigTants,
falls in love with Eunice Park, the beautiful, tiny,
cynical but sweet, shopping-obsessed 24-year-
old daughter of Korean immigrants. Amazingly-
because in spite of their differences they're
kindred spiri ts-she loves him back.
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apart, he's buoyed and dist racted by his tender
passion for Euni ce, who calls him "tuna" and
He tries, and fails, to interest her in lit-
erature. In two of the novel's best set pieces, they
meet each other's families. And they both, in
their ways, try to make the world a better place.
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Eunice's e-mails 10 various friends and 1
Gary Shteyngart's third novel, Supa Sad True
LovtStory( Random House), had to be a total blast
to wrile. It's an homage to science fiction, George
Orwell's 1984 in particular, with a satirical post-
modern overlay of authorial wish fulfillment.
They both write with endearing,
sometimes clumsy earnestness,
and their intertwining narra-
ti ves, for all the book's cheeky
darkness, pose a superserious ques-
tion: Can love alld lanb'1ll1ge save
the world?-A 1T/;(:/I/U:;n:,\ 'Sf:,v
laura RESTRE PO
WHAT we HAVE AMY BOESKY
PRECIOUS METTLE
PreciOUS Williams' memoir. Color
Blind (Bloomsbury). recounts how
this London-born daughter of a
Nigerian princess came to be raised
by an elderly white woman in an
English housing project. Growing up.
she struggled with race and dass
issues, being renamed Anita, and
getting rapd. "Anita is the elephant
in the room," Williams declares,
while Precious. _.!is] the writer, the
grown woman, the advent urer:'
LOVE IN A TIME OF CHOLER
No PJilce for Heroes (Nan A.
T illese/Doubleday), by Colombian
novelist Lilura Restrepo, follows
a mother ilnd son Irom Bogota to
Buenos Aires to find the man who
WilS her lover during Argenti na's
Dirty War amI the father of the now-
grown boy. Their search bcomes
the springboard for a politically
astute, profoundly humilne story of
revolutionary love, personal loss,
and the promise of reconciliation.
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
In What We Have (Gotham). Amy
Boesky conveys what irs been
like for the women in her family-
generations of whom have died
young from ovarian cancer- to live
with risk. As a "previvor" (currenlly
cancer-frei! but highly predisposed),
Boesky chooses to move past her
dread of approaching age 35, when
doctors suggest she and her sisters
have preventive surgery, and to live
life deeply, dail y, f ully. - L,SA SHICA
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2010
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Readers cottoned to this memoir by a
New York City journalist who visited
Yemen and ended up running a
newspaper there, and they praised
her thoughtful account of the whole
adventure- though a few scorned her
final act: up with the married'
with-children British ambassador.
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This Pulitzer contender's bracing
reportage about civilians tangled in
the war on terror in Afghanistan,
Iraq. I shook
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(ATLANTIC PRESS)
More than one skeptical reader was
thoroughly won over by the lack of
preachiness or selt' righteousness
with which this Colorado nat ive
wrote of converti ng to Islam after
studying it in college, then moving to
Cairo, marrying an Egyptian man,
and embracing life ina head scarf.
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In Mona Simpson's new novel about a
modern marriage and its discontents, the
saga of its Filipina domestic sketches a new
variation on the American dream
utho!" of four previous novels
that f,<alllered numerous presti-
gious literary awards, Mona
Simpson has always had athing
families. This creative fetish
long preceded her maternal life
(she has a 16-year-old son and a iO-year-
old daughter), producing such literary
gems as Allywhere But Here and The Losl
Fatha. In her fifth Ilovel, My Hollywood
{Knopn, following a IO-year labor, Simp-
son lakes readers inside the ever verging
yel never quite meq,oed worlds of thirtysomething new parents
Claire and Paul, and Lola, the 52-year-old Filipina nanny whom
Claire hires to look after their newborn, William. After a spate of
unsatisfactory agency interviews, Claire discovers Lolasittingon a
bench and hires her on the spot without references.
Speaking by phone from her home in Santa Monica, California,
Simpson says she's nonplussed by the number of years it took to
write this big, beautifully wrought novel. didn't fee1like a long
time. 1 enjoyed it. And 1 know 1 received much more from my
children [during thi s time] than they took away," she adds.
and my slowness are my own."
While the marriage of Claire, a musician, and Paul, a workaholic
TV-comedy writer, slowly pulls apart, Lola keeps their house-
hold-as well as her own home back in the Philippines-intact.
Their twin narratives are revealed in alternating chapters. A
malTied mother offive who regularly sends money to her husband,
Lola is polished, polite, and prepossessing. "My first day," Lola
relates, "1 fonnd my employer crying by the heating grate. She was
trying to breast-feed and she had very little milk. Maybe she is too
old, I thought. Myunde in Visayas keeps cows and after four, five
years, they will not anymore milk. My employer married late.
Accomplished does not matter so much for a woman. Unless you
are a movie star. I told her, It is okay, you cry. But whett your tears dry,
you will see, your baby he is very healthy."
As for the modern-day setup of her novel, which revolves around
two working moms from vastly different countries and circum-
stances, Simpson refers back to the political fennent of the 1960s
and 1970s. "It was just a time of cultural change that the
world hasn't caught up with, of huge social shifts that sti ll have to be
put in place." That reality runs all through this inlimate, ironic tale,
in which Lola's nanny allies, and adversaries, all of differing
nationalities, become a brilliant Greek chorus renecting and
refracting Lola and Claire's interdependence and their divide.
While solidly middle-dass Claire is petrified to own a house
(she and Paul rent), Lola is the proud ownerof one in
her home country. By the end of the novel, she has
wired almost a million dollars home to her family.
So ultimately, is My Hollywood Lola's or Claire's?
Simpson demurs. The title "is a little crookedt she
says. "1 wanted the book to surprise me, and it
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In [at, Prav, Love, Javier Bardem will have you screaming for amor
By Holl y Mill ea
avier Barclem looks like a
man who eats and prays
and loves in big, un-
abashed ways. Six feet tall
and squarely built, he car-
ries the hulk of a boxer
between fights. There's a
reason the top buUon of his
button-fly jeans is undone.
It's more comfOl1able when
I sit down," he says, lirting his dark T-shirt,
patting his belly. "I'm getting old and fat!"
AI 41, Bardem's heavy-lidded, dark-circled
eyes project the pain and intelligence of
a conflicted saint, while his unstudied
charisma, deep Spanish purr, and sexual
allure hold the promise of toe-curling tal -
ents even the waiter picks up Oll-llote the
youngman's crimson-cheeked, dewy-eyed
alacrity. Bardem had him at hola.
Live Fluh; Btlwelll YOUT LtgSj High Heels;
The Til &theMoolI; Not Lov(,jus/ Frenzy; Sec-
ond Skill; Dance With the Devil; Ecstasy; Don't
TemplMe; Mouth to Mouth; GoldmBalls; The
Sea lnside ... slide your finger down Bar-
dem's list of translated foreign credits and
you could mistake him for a porn star
instead of a major talent who crossed the
ocean illlO American films to become the
first Spanish actor nominated for an Acad-
emy Award (for his portrayal of Reinaldo
Arenas-the gay, exiled Cuban writer-in
2000's Before Night Falls). And then the first
Spaniard to win il: for his coin-nipping,
bad-haircut-wearing, psycho killer in
2007's No Counlry for Old Mm. Last year,
when his Vicky Cristina BaTCewna costar and
reported hrirlfriend Penelope Cruz scored
another Oscar forTeam Spain, iLseemed as
much to Bardem'screditas it was to hers.
This month, Bardem puts the love in
the film adaptation of Eat, Pray, Love-
Elizabeth Gilber t's best -selling memoir
of self-discovery, starringJulia RoberLS-
as Felipe, the Latin lover Gilbert eventu-
ally married. It seems odd that an actor's
actor would dip into the mainstream
with a chick nick, but, as he explains in
his endearing way with the English lan-
guage, "I liked the idea of a person that
really tried to detach herselfs from those
things Ihat create pain in her. Knowing
thai in the end, you bring your own pain
wit h you. Unless you really detach your-
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self from your own self-in a deep way or
a spiritual way or psychological way-
there's no way out."
There's that. And there's the fact that
given the book's legions of fans, the movie
will turn him into a household heartthrob.
"\ Vhen I gOi. sent the trailer for the film, I
had, like, three or four girlfriends over at my
house," Roberts recalls. ;<And J put the thing
in, and as soon as Javiercame on, they were
all like, 'Oh! ' The collective swoon. I just
started ,Jiggling. He's a very charismatic
h'lly, but that's not how I think of him in my
heart now. He's kind of like my She
laughs. "I expected him 10 be one of those
really intense, brooding actor types that
can grow wearisome after weeks. But he
was supersweet and light and airy and will-
ing to go anywhere."
Bardem's No Country for Old Men costar
J osh Brolin fell for the bait-and-switch too.
first four or five days, Javier was
creepily he says. made a choice
to stay as white as he could, out of the sun.
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Cowgirl BBQ, and J avier got up and sang
karaoke. Spaniard that he is, he was singing
and dancing all over the stage. He stage
dived at one point! Woody and I couldn't
believe it. We were laughing so hard we
were on the noor.Javier has an inner diva-
some Barbra Streisand or Mariah Carey-
inside him." (Roberts, upon hearing this
story, says, liVl to see this now.")
Whether in Madrid or Los Anqeles, din
nertime for Bardem is 11 P.M., and despi te
the fact that it is six o'clock and technically
his lunch hour, all he orders here at the
Polo Loun/,'e at the Beverly Hills Hotel is a
Diet Coke. "My caviar would be two good
fried eggs, fries, with some jam6n on the
plate. Mmmm," he says, closing his eyes.
would be caviar for me. '''hen I'm
out of Spain? That's the only thing I think
Don't bother hailing the waiter. "In
America, it's not the same, my dear."
He'll settle for the bread basket. Bardem
works his way through it, sitting slightly
slumped in a corner velvet horseshoe
booth that could seat six people or eight
aClresses. A warning comes with inter
viewing Bardem: Anyquestions regarding
his personal life, particularly regarding
Penelope Cruz, will result in a walkout. But
it's hard to imagine the big fella $Cooch,
scooch, scooching and cursing, and still
more scooching his way out of here. He
might have to undo another hullon to do
that in a hurry.
And why torture him? Why not ask
instead, how do actors kup from falling
in love with their costars? thing that
they call the chemistry, it's true," he begins,
promisingly. "But it's not that true. I' ve
worked with actors and actresses and I've
done scenes with a lot of love in those, and
people believe it, and that person and L.we
didn't go along very well. But that's what
they pay you for: 'Act, motherfucker, act!'
uWhen you are young, it's true that you
get confused. Because you are so ambitious
that you want that work to be so true. But
when you grow old, you realize that that's
the play. You are creating something that
doesn't exist, and you are destroying it as
soon as it's not more needed." He pauses.
didn't fall in love when you were play
ing doctor and nurses with your neighbor,
did you?"
That would depend on where he put the
thermometer.
Bardem laughs at this, his dark features
turning bright and boyishly handsome. Hi s
a gorgeous sound. will always remember
him laughing," says Rebecca Hall, one of
his costars in Vicky Cristina Baralrma. "Il's
an infectious laugh from the base of him-
it 's huge." She sighs. Just thinking about
it, I can hear it a/,rain."
Ask ifhe's ever been strongl y pursued by
a costar after a film wrapped and he
replies, UNo, no. I'm not Brad Pitt." Adding,
had the great opportunity to meet Brad a
coupleoftimes ... whatabeauty! He is beau
tiful and his physica Iityis so amazing to see.
But the beauty really comes from different
places-the way he [alks, the way he's inter
ested in what you're saying. And that body
is like-wow! It's amazing, no? He really
made me feel very, like ... 1 don't know, like,
I could fall in love with him! Like a teenager
girl getting crazy and going [screamJ] like
thaI. I met him only twice, butsonice, so ..
generous and very true to himself, and r
don't know him that well, but I would say it's
a good self. And that is when the beauty
comes t'Oom! And if you have a body besides
that, then it's like, fuck!" Can you ima/,';ne
how he feels about Penelope Cruz?
have to go to the toilet, my dear," Bar
dem announces. is a long way to go!"
Scooch, scooch, scooch.
Bardem was 9 or 10 when he saw his first
movie in a movie theater: All ThatJaa,. He
was so young that his mother hid him be
tween his older sister and brother. don't
know what she said to the guy atthe theater,"
Bardem says. "But I got there and I saw that
masterpiece-at the time I didn't get it was
a masterpiece-and those naked women
dancing! I waS like, Wow, this is great!"
His parents split when he was born,
leaving Javier to be, as he puts it, "grown
by my mother and sister. So I have this
feminine education." Hi s mother, Pilar, an
actress, hustled jobs in theater, TV, caba
ret, movies ... trying to bring in money. "It
was hard. I learned a lot unconsciously
from that," says Bardem, who dedicated
his No Country for Old Men Oscar to her.
(On Oscar night, "I was sitting by Jack
Nicholson with my long list of thanks, and
I said, 'I'm so nervous. I don't know what
to say if I go up there.' He said, ' Don't get
emotional, drop the names, and dedicate it
to your mother.''' )
Bardem was raised Catholic, I
wasn't very into it," he says. "I don't under
stand religion when it gets to the point
where the beyond commands the present,
because then the present doesn't have any
sense. In Spain it is a big fear, a bummer,
our mortality. Myself, I really need to know
and race mortality: I am thi s, I am me, I am
now, The rest, I don't know. And that's the
point-to be okay with not
But he does have a theory on how he got
here. personally believe we are little
monkeys years ago. When I look myself in
the mirror every morning, I see the connec
tioll. I say 'Cheers!' to Darwin." He raises
his glass. was righL"
Having declared, don't believe in
God, I believe in Al Pacino," Bardem lets it
be known where his true faith and inspira-
tion lie. But it was Robert De Niro who
started it all. "I went with my father to see
Raging Bul4 and [ remember asking him,
' Who is that boxer?' He said, 'No, he's an
actor.' And I thought, An actor can do
that, go that far. .. to make truth? It had an
impact on
So much so that he's now in a league
with both of the icons. uJ avier's one of the
greats," saysJ ulian Schnabel, the artist and
director who introduced Bardem to Amer
ica in Before Night Falls. "Jack Nicholson, Al
Pacino, Mathieu Amalric !The Diving Bell
and the Butterfly]' obviously Brando and
J ohnny [Depp] .. . they're not interchange-
able, but there's a level these people reach
that's a natural state where they inhabit
these characters and they're not acting. It 's
so mysterious. Howdo they do that?"
Those who fear Bardem will succumb to
the lure of commerci al Hollywood will be
reassured by his next project the grilly
Spanish film Biutifu4 directed by Alejan
dro Gonzalez hlarritu, whose work in-
cludes 21 Grams and Babel. Bardem plays
an underworld figure in the slums of Barce
lana, diagnosed with terminal cancer, try
ing to right the wrongs in his life before it's
too late. always hadJ avierin mind when
I was l Ii<initu says, calling rrom
the airport on his way to the Cannes film
festival, where Bardem would win a Best
Actor award for the film. "You see in him
such a range of emotions and this interior
life. So we were always trying to take out
words-less is more. The best cinema is in
silence. And in his silence, he is loud."
Milos Forman, who directed Bardem in
Goyal Ghosts, sees his talent as very
rare, perfect balance between instinct and
intellect. It's like a controlled eruption of a
volcano on Iceland," he says. he looks
like a real macho type, a man'sworld man.
But he is deep down a very sensitive, vul-
nerable, very fragile human being. He is;
he's a very gentle boy." All very seductive.
Bardem raises his hand to attract the
waiter. It 's getting late and he has things
to get done before dinner. Hi s right pinky
finger is scarred and permanently curved
into the shape of a question mark, de
manding the question, what happened?
"My finger," he says, holding it up, turning
it this way, that way. "[ broke it doing a
movie in 1996 called Ecstasy. I had it oper'
ated twice, but they did the scar so tight."
Tell him there's beauty in imperfection
and Bardem smiles: "That's what 1 say to
myself every time I
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It's no surprise thullne prize for best fringe
goes to Nicole Richie, with retro-adorable
woey Deschanel as runner-up. "The full
bang is very lale '60s, early '70s, so it's the
perfect vintage accessoryt says Richie's
stylist, Andy Lecompte. To whip her
heavy bangs into shape (which he does
every three to four weeks), Lecompte
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"so they stay out orher eyes," and finishes
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"Nicole Richie's look really resonates with
our long-haired clients who wanl a change
but won't compromise on length," says
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The best performance for sleek strands
goes to golden gir! Reese Witherspoon,
with hitmaker Beyonce coming in a close
second. The secret to Witherspoon's
covetable style? cut face-framing layers
from the top of the head, not by holding
them out to the sidet says her stylist,
Mark Townsend. adds bounce and
keeps ends from looking stringy." And
because straight hair renecl.s the most
light , her style boasts extra shine_ "This
style is so popular because it's
superrlattering," says Sanda Pet rut, a
senior stylist at Chicago's posh Maxine
Salon. "The long, chi n-length layers
accentuate the cheekbones and add sexy
yet sophisticated movement to the hair-
something every woman wants."
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Halle Berry-and her hair-can do no
wrong. For the second year in a row, she sits
atop salons' request lists-but this time
she's CUI her waves loose in favor of a pixie
(also seen on short-cut runner-up, Oscar
nominee Carey Mulligan). "Towearshort
hair you must be confident," says Berry's
stylist, Neeko Ahriol. "It works b'Tcat on
Halle because she has an amazing neckline
and cheekbones and she's not afraid to show
them." Abriol keeps Berry'ssidesshort, wit h
an extra inch oflcllgth on top to create
texture and "keep it versatile." In the great
outdoors of Montana, like eulS
that are easy to style," says Laura Perella,
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Berry's do is No. I. low maintenance,
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THE WAVE
When ii comes 10 Kim Kardashian, the
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curves of her body are the curves of her
long hai r. And women envy Taylor Swift
for more than her talent and her friendship
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natural coils. give Kim bouncy waves by
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Hawaii's salt-spray beaches and moisture-
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When our Beauty Adventuress experiences a major
loss, she gives up going it alone and finds comfort in
unlikely places By Holly Millea
nJ anuary 24, my mother
turned 79. Given her
love of Catholicism, r
sent her chocolates, a ce-
ramic plaque that read
l'EACE BE WITII YOU, and a
card showing a photo-
graph of two old nuns in
traditional garb, laughing,
with the words "Happy
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birthday! Here's to another year of bad hab-
Our telephone conversation that after-
noon was brief, as my mother wasn't
wearing her hearing aid, and I would be b'el-
ling on a plane later in the week to visit her.
She was excited and happy because, as she
so often said, "I've been lonely for you."
Nine days later, my mother died.
Months pass, but every day feels as if she
died the day before. J go to bed hoping to
dream of her, but my dreams are empty, and
I wake from fitful sleep in a panic, my heart
thudding. I relive her last moments, holding
her hand as she was sli pping out of that
room and away from the world-away from
me-and 1 can't shake the primal no, no, no,
no 1 felt, wantingto pull her back from where
she was going.
The rush of comforting friends keeping
me fed and Oowered and feeling loved even-
tually wanes, as it should. You can't expect
the devoted to conti nue making the pil/,<rim-
age to the Holly Land, even ifit is only three
blocks from Barneys. "Inabout a year, you'!!
feel a little better," says Liesl , my freditor
(friend and editor). Liesl knows, having lost
her father at a young age. "But you can't stay
in your apartment until then."
I venture downtown to my pal joanna's
for dinner. She has three offspring I adore,
the youngest being Valentine, who's five,
fierce, and funny. A fellow Gemini, Valen-
tine rocks a Louise Brooks bob and talks
with an accent unaccountably similar to
Greta Garbo's.l open the door, and she runs
and leaps into my arms, hugbring me hard.
Back on the ground, she plants a hand on
her hip and points a chubby finger at me.
sad," she says, all serious,
your mom is dead. And you're all
The kid tells it like it is. Then she brightens
with a solution: "Come live with
j oanna has a better idea. She hands me a
glass of cabernet and a brochure from
Moonview Sanctuary, a nonresidential
treatment center in Santa Monica that spe-
cializes in, among other things, addiction,
anger, anxiety, burnout, depression, and
grief. It also offers "support for families in
le/,<al crisis" and will work "with the courts
and/or attorneys todevelopa deferred pros-
ecution and devise "innovative alter-
natives to traditional incarceration." I did
not make that up.
"Thanks, j ot I say, handing it back. "I
think I'll hang on to my grief for now. But if
I'm ever arrested ....
"Look," she says, "I met the founder and I
think she can help you /,<et writing again.
Makeita Beauty Adventure!What could be
more beautiful than that?"
Two weeks later, I pull into the under-
ground garage of a nameless, addressless
cement office complex. Located on the sec-
ond noor, Moonview is the brainchild of
Laurie Ann Levin, a psychic (or, as she pre-
fers, "intuitive") psychologist and author of
the book Goo, the UniwSl, and Where I Fit In:
A Psychic's Rejltctions on Figuring Oulthe Rest
of Your Lift. Before she figured out the rest
of her life, she was a Hollywood agent
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and Moonview partner, Gerald Levin, a for-
mer Time Warner CEO. Dressed in a gray
cashmere sweater, black slacks, and courtly
slip-oIlS, the soft-spoken Gerald bears a
slight resemblance to Ricardo Montalban.
In fact, heis to Moonview what Ricardo was
to Fantasy lslal/d-an elegant meeter and
!,'l-eeter of guests anxiously stepping off into
an exotic place .. .in search of mental health,
or physical rehab, or neurofeedback, or ho-
listic healing, or advice on prison etiquette.
"The fundamental difference in Moon-
view is that it's highly spiritual," Gerald
says. "Laurie always had this notion of an
institute that would bring spirituality topsy-
time gig. Clients pay an anTlual fee of
$ 175,000-a bargai n that may cover the
"local transportation ... [and] specially
prepared gourmet meals and snacks."
Shorter memberships can be had for an
equally extravagant sum. No, Moonview
does not accept insurance. And if you have
to ask, you're in the wrong sanctuary-
hence the unmarked building, hidden
cameras, discreet hallways, and sound-
proof doors. "Our clients are usually
people who have a public profile," Gerald
says. "Everything is highly confidential.
No one knows who's been hereorwho'shere
He pauses before a large bronze
Mom Just stared and stared at
me and my brothers and sister
as If she was memorlzln(J our
faces And then she closed her
eyes for the last time
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chology. She has a fervent belief in life after
E l lE
life. So she changed her identity, met me,
and I helped her start
In 2002, Gerald, then married to the pre-
vious Mrs. Levin, had just retired from
Time Warner following the disaslrousAOL
meq,'er. He was also still grieving his son
J onathan, a Bronx schoolteacher who'd
been murdered by a former student. Hear-
ing of the eX-lilan's felirement, Laurie cold-
called Gerald, hoping he'd support her
dream. The night before they mel, she
channeled his son: was surprised at how
quickly J on came to me," she writes in her
book, as ifhe had been impatiently
wailing for someone [oreach oul to him. He
told me that his father was in an unhappy
marriage .... His murder blew open his
father's heart , which had grown col d and
callous over the years of business."
"We were destined to Gerald says
now, with grateful affection. is able t.o
communicate with those who have passed
on, including my SOIl. A lot of the way we
met and interacted was based on herunder

He opens a door to what looks like a Bali -
Ilese sanctuary. Earthy ochres and celadon
greens color the walls and carpets. The lush
tropical artwork evokes Henri
TheDrram. Fountains now everywhere, olle
fashioned from a white marble Buddha, fin-
gers forming an "0," symbolizing ... what?
"I'm a businessperson, so I think he's
counting his Gerald says.
Counting Moonview's money is a full-
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Mary Geltz Mil iu wu a t all, di rk, long' lI mbed,
" ' \I4ltl, compllutld buuty. But wll, t I most
about ller was til. ' act tllat sll. was my mom. Tills
plloto was tl kl n on LIke Okoboji In Jul y 1963.
plaque on the wall. "Our mission statement,"
he says. The inscription: TIlE E.'<TRA:';CE TO A
HUMAN SOUL IS A SACRt:n HONOR. Will that be
cash, check, or credit card?
Gerald hails Stephen r.
Sideroff, PhD, from behindadesk andintro
duces us. "Dr. Sideroffis not only a specialist
in neurofeedback, but if you look at him,
he's a Gee, he looks like a hand-
someJ ewlsh doctor from Scarsdale.
What does it take to be a shaman?
biggest thing it requires is a willingness to
think out of your own Sideroff says,
"to move out of your comfort Then
that makes me a supershaman, because I
don't havra comfort zone.
Gerald escorts me to my "home baset a
room with a desk, love seats, antique ar-
moire, and a trickling fountain.
yourself," he says, "and feel comfortable that
you're going to have a He
leaves; 1 launch into a paranoid search for
hidden cameras and bugging devices. In
walks Andre D. Zitcer. brings you
here?" he asks. I tell him my mother passed
away and that I've been in a stale of incon-
solable panic ever since. And that my friend
J oanna is afraid I'll move in with her.
Tall, dark, and handsome, with a British
accent, Zitcer is absolutely qualified to help
me, whatever his expertise. He eyes my re-
corder: see you're taping us. That's okay.
But I want to make sure it's okay with
J find this puzzling. I ask him what he
does, exactly. do Somatic Experiencing,
which deals with the internal workings and
sensations of the he explains. "It's a
technique developed by Peter Levine, who
wrote Waking flu Tiga. He spent years study-
ing animals in the wild. Anima!s don't hold
trauma. They're all about chasing and eal-
ingalld killing each other-"
"And having sex with each other."
"Well, yes, that, too. I think that's part of
the plan." He continues: "When a cheetah
chases a gazelle, the gazelle is going to get
really anxious, even if it gets away. But ani-
mals in the wild are able to discharge that
energy-birds nap furiously, hares bounce
and shake themselves ofT-and they meld
back into the herd and have nosymptomsof
the trauma. They don't have a memory of
being chased."
Sadly, neither do I.
hol d itin,"hesays, "and the en-
ergy manifests in the body, causing illness
and mental distress." Simply put, Somatic
Experiencing helps a patient release the
stress of a trauma by !,'"CTltly reliving it,
that by the end, you're able to completely re-
experience what happened and it's no lon-
!,'"Cr a traumatic event," Zitcer says. "Once
you've discharged all the trauma, you're re-
laxed and your life experience becomes
much bigger. It's quite amazing."
A knock on the door. Exit Zitcer, enter
Patricia Bolter, a practitioner of something
called the Emotional Freedom Technique
(EFf). It'sdesigned to correct the energyim-
balance caused by negative feelings-like
an emotional fonn of acupuncture without
needles. A matemal, handsome woman,
Bolter projects kindness, intelligence, and
warmth. My animal response to her is an
overwhelming urge to cry. "So," she says,
pulling up a chair directly across from me,
"tell me about your mother."
Where to begin? At the heart of the mat-
ter. Four days after my mom's seventy-ninth
birthday, I was sitting 011 the tarmac in a
snowstorm, waiting for my plane to be
cleared ror takeoff. In Illy bag was a Flip
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by J oanna's home movies, so that I could in-
terviewmy mother about her life. (Mymother
had laughed when I told her she'd be the next
cover of ELLE.) The pilot was announcing
sixteenth in linefarlhe runway when
I go! the call sayingthat mymotherwas expe-
riencing heart failure. "You better gel on a
plane," said Leanne, the head nurse at the
lIursing home. "I have to tell you, she might
not survive until you h'Ct here."
Mom, who had smoked for years, had a
weak heart and emphysema. Followingone
terrible hospital stay, she said she would
never go back. So we signed her up for the
nursing home's hospice program. I told
Leanne I was on my way and asked her La
put the phone up to my mother's ear so I
could tell her I loved her and to hang on
until r got there. Mom didn't respond. UThat
doesn't mean she didn't hear you," Leanne
said. "Hearing is the last thingto go."
I never interviewed my mother. When I
entered the room and kissed her cheek, she
whispered, "Thank you." But over the next
four days, she didn't have the strength to
have a long conversation. My siblings and I
took turns spending the night with her. The
last night I was with her, the whistle from a
passing Union Pacific train, a mournful
sound, roused her from sleep. She said, " I
don't want to leave Trying not to cry, I
grabbed both her hands. "Listen to me,
Mom. You're not leaving lIIe. I am going with
you, and you're staying here with me al the
same time. Do you undersLand She
squeezed my hands.
We were all with her when she died the
next afternoon, telling her over and over
again how much we loved her, wanting
those to be the last words she heard. Pack-
ing up her room, I found a tower of ELLE
magazines, everyone of my stories dog-
eared. I'd spent 20 years interviewing ce-
lebrities and never in terviewed the most
beautiful, fascinating woman the world
will never know. Which has left me over-
whelmed with unanswerable questions and
regret and guilt that I never gave her the
kind of attention I'd given to total stranb<ers.
Shame on me that the only story I've ever
written about my mother was her obituary.
"When we have a negative e mot ion, usu-
ally the internal message is, we don't really
like ourselves," Bolter says. "l Ve don't like
feeling that way. This technique pUiS you in
that place, saying that you love and accept
yourself anyway, even when you say, ' Yeah,
but 1 don't' When you do this tapping tech-
nique and you use those words, there's an
internal message that says, ' Hmm, maybe 1
am all right.'" Bolter hands me a diabrram of
the EFT points that we will tap in the fol-
lowing order: The outside of each hand,
above each eyebrow, the outer corner of
each eye, under each eye, under the nose,
under the mouth, each si de of the collar-
bone, under both arms, and the top oflhe
head. Needless to say, I'm skeptical.
"Mirror where I'm tapping and repeat
after me," Bolter says, as she begins tapping
the outer side of her hand, the "karate-chop
point." Afiereach sentence, she taps the next
spot. "Even though," she begins. "Come on,
repeat it.. . Even though." Et'tn though.
have this sadness and fCbrret." J have this sad-
lU5Jand regret. "Because my mom died, and I
never gOi to interview her." Bemuse my 1II0m
died, and J nl!VtT got to interoitw her. " I love and
accept myself." 1 stop tapping and shake my
head no at this, unable to speak for fear I'll
start crying. "Keep tapping, and just think it
if you can't say Bolter says. "And even
though," she taps under the eyes, really
hurts to say that, because I really wanted to
interview her-I wanted to have that rela-
tionship with her; I love and accept her and
me, just the way we both are. And 1 forgive
myself. 1 honestly forgive myself for any-
thing I do that blinb'S up this regret. Hecause
I did the best 1 could with the resources and
the limitations of my life."
Tears stream down my face. Bolter in-
structs me to keep my head up straight, tap
the top of my hand between my little finger
and ring finger, and follow her finger with
my eyes while she makes a big starlike pal-
tern in the air. "Now takeadeep breath," she
says. "FirsLthought?"
"What does following the finger do?"
"Tapping is kinesthetic, and moving the
eyes is a visual connection. Doing them at
the same time stimulates both sides of the
brain when you're trying to balance your
energy. I promise that when you get to the
center of this place of grief, when you really
face the rebrret, the sadness, you're going to
realize you did the best that 1-I011ycould do."
For the next hour we repeat the techn ique,
with Bolter changing up the sentences,
and by the third round 1 can actually bring
myself 10 repeat after her. By the end, 1 feel
emotionally spent and relieved and, yes,
not50 weighted with regret-my heart liter-
ally feels lighter.
"You weren't your mother's joumalist,"
Boltersays, hugging me goodbye. were
her daughter." It was a Timothy Hutlon-
J udd Hirsch Ordinary People moment. 1 love
this woman.
"It's working!" 1 textJoanna,just as Lau-
rie Ann Levi n walks in. A tall blond with a
whispery voice, she sits down and asks,
"What hasJoanna told you about me?"
Whoa, maybe she ispsychid Hey, wait a
minute. WhathasJ oanna told herabout me?
Levi n rattles ofT a laundry list, indudingdel-
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told her roerJlhing.
Levin goes over the other practitioners'
noteson meand asks, "How do you address
the world spiritually?"
world! " Kidding. was
raised Catholic, but I practice the religion
orkindness."
you had spiritual experiences?"
"Watching my mother die was a spirit ua 1
experience." Levin nods and says, "Did you
get the feeling she was seeing something in
the room that you couldn't see?" I shake my
head, and I tell her Mom just slared and
stared at me and my brothers and sisteras if
she was memorizing our faces. And then
she closed hereyes for the last time.
My stomach growls. Ina show of psychic
ability Levin asks, you have issues with
digestion?" No. reason I'm asking is
because emotions can go to different parts
of the body. So the hurt didn't go to your
digestion." My heart hogged it all. Levin
instructs me to ask my heart why it chose to
take on the hurt: wondering if your
heart is broken." I'm sorry, she's wondering?
You don' t have to bea psychic to know that
losing one's mother is a catastrophic, heart
breaking experience.
I have a question. Can you tell me about
my past lives? I upsetting your ances-
trallineifI bring this through?" shewants to
know. I think they can handle it. Levin lakes
a deep breath and closes hereyes. Thirtysec-
onds pass. "The word Sawn came up for
me," she sap'. don't know if this is a para-
ble, hut there is something about Salem and
the way your life was lived."
That night, I meet my gay friend Michael
for dinner. I tell him about my fonner incar-
nation. she said I was a witch."
come on!" Michael says. "I could
have told you that. I worked for aguy back in
the '70s who could read past lives-a bigJa-
maican who lived in caftans. One day we
were having lunch atlhe Russian Tea Room
and he reached across the table, put his hand
on my third eye, and declared, 'You were a
sex slave in ancient Egypt! '"
that explains everything."
you want some real answers?"
Michael says. Go seeJ usstine Kenzer. She's
got the gift."
This t ime, however, I'm going to make sure
no one can load the dice. r enlist Liesl 1.0 pre-
tend that she wants a psychic reading. That
way, when I show up, pretending to be her,
Kenzer won't have Googled Holly Millea
and read my Beauty Adventures for psychic
cheating. But KellZer's ti me is tight, so Liesl ,
now caught in our electronic web, has to
send a series of pleading e-mails trying to
persuade Kenzer to squeeze her/me in. Sud-
denly a cranky e-mail arrives: Be at her
house in two hours. Liesl calls and tells me I
better come clean with Kenzer aoout our
ploy. "It's not likewe'rerunninga Food Lion
sling operation," she says.
Shaking Kenzer's hand, I mutter, . .
not LiesL l'm Holly. I'm a writerand-"
talking! It doesn't matter what your
name is." A grouchy psychic? "Let's gel to it.
I have a phone client in 45 minutes."
\Ve sit on her love seat, and Kenzer, a
buxom, sexy brunette, lowers her head.
going to Lake a moment and tune in here,"
she says, closing hereyes. She inhales deeply,
shakes her head, agitated, and says,
on an antidepressant? I'm gettingTV static."
I just started taking Lexapro.
at least it's not Prozac. It Ia kes me
[5 minutes to get through
She closes her eyes again, opens them,
and says, we're depressed, we're sup-
pressing energy. So now you're taking an an-
tidepressant, which is covering it up, but
eventually you're going to wan! to get to
what this is to release it. Otherwise you're
just buryingit more. People don't want to fee!
what they're feeling." But yOIl should.
Howdoyou like that ? I sawa psychologist
who claims to be psychic and ended up with
a psychic with the gifts of a psychologist. I
like it. Atthe end of a fruitful, impressive ses-
sion, J pay KetlZer $200 and ask the burning
question: I a witch in Salem?"
"Who cares? It's not about diving into
past lives," she says. only thingwe have
control of is r ight here, right now."
Joanna opens the door to her apartmem
with a frown. She feels awful about handing
over my life story to Laurie Levin. in-
vited me to have lunch with hert Joexplains.
then she kept asking me questions
aOOut you and your li fe. I just wanted to help
her help you! " No worries. Going to Moon-
view actually did help heal me. In fact, I'd
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Valemine runs into the room and gives
me one of her hugs- another healingexperi-
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subjects: princesses and orphans. (She's ob-
sessed with Anastasia and knows all the
words to Annie.) Later, our stomachs aching
from cake and ice cream, I put Valentine to
bed and int roduce her to Pippi Longstock-
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her and called, "DolI't you worry about mt. I'll al-
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Bettina Paige wanted a second child enough
to pursue fertility treatments, but when she
conceived twins, she was deeply ambivalent
While she'd heard of "selective reductions," the
moral and practical implications of the procedure
suddenly were very personal
,
re they one of your suc-
cess stories?" I asked,
pointing behind Dr. H.
La a large silver-framed
photo of two fat-cheeked
babies, identical twins.
Dr. H. was my fertility
and this was our
first appointment.
my grand-
kids," he explained, then laughed. "But ev-
eryone always says the same Ihing"-hc
held up his hands, like someone appealing
La a higher power, and shook them dramali -
cally-"'\Vedon'l want twins!'"
Hilarious, I thought. Dr. H.'s reaction
suggested that anyone desperate enough to
visit him would take a kid any way she
could get one.
"But I really don't want twins," J said. "I
already have a three-year-old, and money is
tight. Olle morc is all we can
Dr. H. replied, "b,,;ven your
age, we need to be aggressive. So I'd recom-
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mend going right to IVF. But if you want,
we can transfer only one
For that plivilege, I had my insurer to
Lhan k, su rprisingly enough: Since my policy
covered threeroundsoflVF, Dr. H. said, we
could be conservative with the number of
embryos we implanted each time.
I replied, wilh a sigh of relief.
"Then lei's get started."
I left the consultation feeling excited and
optimistic. Here was a science so precise
thai Dr. H. could choose among outcomes-
you don't want twins? Fine. I' ll just implant
one embryo. I was in control, finally. I'd
spent months takingmy temperature, mOIl-
itoring my cervical mucus, and visiting an
acupuncturist, wondering all Ihe while if
Lhese efforts were any more effective than
chantingaspell: Bibbity, bobbity, boo!
One thing I'd somehow forgotten to ask
Dr. H. about was my chance of becoming
pregnant using a sinhrle embryo. According
to research I'd done before seeing him, I
knew that the live birth rate for in vitro
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than one in 20, and that was when Ihe aver-
age number of embryos implanted wasthree.
So h'OingwiLh only one had to worsen the al-
ready poor odds, didn't it? But I kept silent.
Not only did I manage nO! to know what I
knew, bUI I even imagined that I had an ad-
vantage over Lhe other women siLting in Dr.
H.'s waiting room reading outdated copies of
Fit Pregnancy and Parenting (selections that
Simck me as insensitive as offering Gourmtl
to bulimics). I'd already proven I could gel
pregnant; not only Lhal, my husband and I
conceived our three-year-old son immedi-
ately after I SlOpped using birth comra!. And
we seemed to have luck on our side: The
crappy health plan supplied by my hus-
band's nonprofit employer paid for thrtt
IVF cycles. As J said to him after meeting
with Dr. H., what did we have to lose?
Within three months, however, I'd aban-
doned the one-embryo idea almost as if I'd
never heard of it. A few friends my age had
implanted as many as five embryos alonce,
wilh no baby to show for it. I was crazy, nOI
to mention arrogant, they said, to think I
could geL pregnant with one. I also found
out that the fine print on our crappy insur-
ance policy said that to be eligible for IVF,
you first had 10 try the more basic intrauter-
ine insemination (in which my husband's
speml would be injected into my uLen!S
during a hormone-enhanced ovulation).
By the tillle I was able to have an embryo
implanted, who knew how much older, and
likely to conceive, I'd be ?
So following our insurer's rules, I did the
turkey-baster routine, and after 12 days
headed back to Dr. H.'s office for a pregnancy
test. I'd already gotten a negative result al
home, and I just wanted to move onto the
high-tech stuff. "It's bad news, isn't I
greeted Dr. H. when he called lalerlhat day.
"Actually, not he said. "You' re pregnant.
In fact, your levels are quite He
paused. "And I'm afraid it might be
He sounded apologetic; maybe he'd regis-
tered my objections after all.
I reminded him that when we did the in-
semination, he'd said that although I'd pro-
duced four follicles-as opposed to the one
generated naturally-it was "highly unlikely"
that more than one of the eggs would be
fertilized. (Later, I'd realize that lhe ovulation-
induction dnlg Dr. H. sUSbccsted I take,
Gonal-f, comes with a higher chance of mul-
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tiplcs than the more common Clomid. He'd
breathed not a word of this to me.)
won't know anything for sure until
we daa sonogram," Dr. H. tried to reassure
me. a third of the time, one of the
twins vanishes anyway. So ii 's too early to
Lell. But you're pregnan t-that's the impor-
tant thing . ... Congratulations." It came out
sounding like all admonition. Or perhaps
he was opposed to abortion and trying to
steer me away from the procedure known
as reduction," in which one or
more fetuses in a multiple pregnancy is ter-
minated. I had no way of knowing.
Hanging up the phone, I waited for a
wave of feeling to break over me. When I'd
learned that I was pregnant with my son, I
couldn't stop smiling for days. Walking
down the street, sitting across the table
from a friend, my face was involuntaril y lit.
But now I felt unprepared, and
doubtful about my ability to handle what
fale had thrown at me.
lt happened to be my husband's and my
anniversary. \Ve'd been together long
enough that we didn't feel obliged to mark
the occasion with flowers or candlelit din-
ners, but as he walked in the door that night,
the timing suddenly seemed serendipitous.
"Happy anniversary!" I said, pressing my
lips to his. sorry 1 didn't get you any-
thing. Oh, there is thi s one little thing ... . I
stared coyly up into his face.
He lifted his eyebrows. "You're pregnant?"
1 nodded, but already my choice of
words, "one little thing," rang ominously in
my ears. I trapped my bottom lip between
my teeth. "'Apparently my levels are high.
He thinks it might be twillS."
My husband pulled back from me with
the abruptness of someone who's just
learned he's been betrayed. "Bettina, we
can't handle twins," he said fimlly.
"\Vell, we could if we had to. People have
a toddler and twins all the time."
"I told you when you started all this thai I
didn't want twins."
I nodded. He had said that. Unlike me,
he'd been reluctant to have a second child.
Our son was everything we could've
wished for-funny, smart, a source of regu-
lar joy. As he got older, our lives got easier.
We took trips and fOllnd time for exercise
and going to movies; we even had space in
our two-bedroom apartment for guests. But
at that moment, I didn' t want to hear any of
that. I'd always wanted two children, and I
countered with my best aq,'1lment: Preserv-
ing our lifestyle seemed like a self-centered
reason to deprive our son of a sibling.
"But neither of us even likes our brothers
and sisters that much," my husband per-
sisted. In fact, ifil weren't for the affection
between our son and his cousins, he went
on, we'd rarely see our siblings. Eventually,
though, it was the sweetness oflhe cousins'
connection that persuaded my husband to
agree to a second. Then, when he had one
foot onboard, I dragged the rest of him into
the world of assisted reproduction-about
which he knew just enough to issue the dic-
tum against twins. Don't worry about it, I'd
blumy assured him. If we end up with more
than one, there's a way to take care of it. But 1
was certain that wasn't going to happen.
Durinq my weekly visits to Dr. H.'s office
over the next month, I watched the two lit-
tle sacs on the sonogram darken and grow,
develop heartbeats and vab'1lely human out-
lines. "Can you turn the screen away,
I asked, tears poolitlgin the corners
of my eyes. "I don't want to get
Dr. H. turned it toward me and said
sternly: "Start getting attached."
I'd already asked him about selective re-
duction. A colleague of his had told me that
many women do it, and that it was no more
dangerous than amniocentesis. But Dr. H.
contradicted her: Theodds of losing the en-
tire pregnancy were about lO percent, he
said, and he didn't do reductions himself.
1 kept tellingmyself l should be happy to
be prebrnant at all: After wanting another
child for the better partoftwoyears and try-
ingand failing for 12 months to have one on
my own, I'd conceived! BUI I grew increas-
ingly despondent as the deadline for termi-
nating one of the pregnancies loomed. My
husband was convinced that twins would
radically change our lives for the worse.
We'd have to leave our beloved neighbor-
hood for a place with cheaper rents and bet-
ter public schools-there was no way we
could afford private education for three
kids. We'd kiss goodbye any hope of career
advancement, at least for the foreseeable
future. To his list , I added the loss of my in-
come, necessary to Illeet our expenses. I
couldn't see how I'd be able to resume
working after the birth sillce wecould never
afford full-time help, and- no matter how
well they napped-two infants wouldn't
leave much time for anything else.
But, but, but. . . Wasn't sacrifice part of
what being a parent was all about? Was it
more accurate to say thai we didn't wanlto
handle twins, rather than we couldn' t?
Perhaps the answer lo that question
would've been yes, had my husband and I
been two totally different people. Because
beyond the practical concerns, I knew that
we didn't have the energy, the patience, or
the fortitude to juggle two infants in addi-
tion to our SOil. As it was, I sometimes felt
like a superhero, and my husband and 1
fought over sharing the responsibilities of
one child. Even in the best of times we
Kiss
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struggled not to bark out demands and to
keep from seei ng the other as the enemy.
But struggle we did, because the life we'd
made-our ma rriage, our community of
friends, and especially our son-seemed
worth the effort. I seriously doubted that
this fragile equilibrium could wi thstand
the stress of three young chil dren. And as
much as I wished the situation were differ-
ent, it wasn' t. I know it sounds selfish, but I
wanted to protect the well-being of the
people already in my life-my son, my
husband, and, yes, myself.
Every sign of the new lives growing in-
side of me-my tightening waistband, my
tender breasts, my queasiness-felt like
punishment for my baby lust and an indict-
mentofmyfailingsas a mother. Since r was
certain I coul dn't manage two babies, how
could I be sure I wouldn't be overwhelmed
by one? I entertai ned dark daydreams of
miscarrying both children as a way out of
this intractable situation. I was furious at my-
self for closing my eyes to the risks of multi-
ples-I felt as irresponsible as someone who
kept b'Ctting "accidentally" prCh'1lant be-
cause she forgot to insert her diaphragm,
Selective reduction had been my contin-
gency plan, yet I'd never thought-or felt-
through actually using it. I didn't even
know how the procedure was done. Now J
was horrified at the idea of tenninati ngone
of the fetuses growing inside me by inject-
ingpotassium chloride into his or her heart.
With my son, I'd wi tnessed the step-by-
step progress from blip to eight-pound,
two-ounce boy, marvel ing at the increas-
ingly recognizable sonogram images, por-
ing over the weekly e-mail announcements
from a pregnancy website: Your baby now
has fingernails, your baby is now the size of
a lemon, a banana, a melon . ... And while I
strongly believed in women's right to have
an abortion, the unlucky fetus destined for
elimination wasn't merely an abstract po-
tential life, or an accident. He or she was the
product of my love for my husband, a life
we'd made toget her on purpose. This fetus
had an identity, not least as someone's twi n.
"Selective reduction" was Orwell ian; J
knew I was ending what coul d be a life.
I also worried that the surviving chil d
would bescarred by the loss. Perhaps the fetus
would rChrister the cessation of the heartbeat
in the neighboring sac, the stilling of the flut-
tery movements. Could the proximity of de-
caying fetal tissue infuse my womb with the
of death? Hthe chosen one ended up
\\ilh mental ill ness or autism, would I always
blame myself for having a reduction? All this
may seem melodramatic, but I've heard
about identical twins holding hands in utero;
I've seen the secret language and plivate
reality shared between even fraternal twins.
This kept me awake at night, inflected
my dreams with shadowy predators. Mean-
while, J learned that the optimal time to re-
duce was between II and 13 weeks-and a
chorionic villus sampling (CVS) was rec-
ommended beforehand to ensure that the
fetus retained had the best chance of being
healthy. J had to make these appointments
whi le deciding what to do. On the Web, I
found a small , controversial message board
You were maklnCl
a "Sophie's ChOice"
between SlbllnCjs,
somethlnCj a Cj ood
mother would do
only With a Cjun to
her head
on which veterans of reductions offered
guidance. I searched among the threads for
a local doctor will ing to perform a two-to-
one reduction-many won't-feeling as if!
were searching for a back-alley abortion.
When a woman is carrying three or more
fetuses, the medical argument in favor of se-
lective reduction is clear. A 1999 study com-
pared the outcomes of 143 cases of triplets
reduced to twins to 12 sets of triplets and Rl2
sets of twi ns, A quarter of the women carry-
ing triplets lost the entire pregnancy, versus
6_2 percent of those who reduced triplets to
twins, which was in line with the miscar-
riage rates for the non reduced twins. Fur-
ther, a quarter of the tliplets were severely
premature (and al l had attendant complica-
lions), compared with 5 percent of the trip-
lets reduced to twins. Beyond the improved
medical outcomes, the daunting financial,
emotional, and practical challenges of rais-
ing triplets-and the potential psychic toll of
being one of three {from the developmental
delays connected to prematurity to a deficit
of parental attention ata youngab'C)-makes
reducing triplets pretty uncontroversiaL
Not so twins. Plenty of people have twillS
and manage tocare for them. And there has
been no real medical rationale for going
from two to one, although recently that has
changed somewhat. The risks of selective
reduction have declined since it was pio-
neered by New York obstetrician Mark
Evans 26 years ago, when the odds of losing
the entire pregnancy were roughly 10 per-
cent (as Dr. H. told me). But now the figure
for two-to-one reductions is roughly 3 per-
cent, according to Evans.
Studies have shown that after a reduction,
pregnancies tend to proceed as if a woman
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You know that look you catch your boyfriend giving
other women? That, writes Anonymous, is Just the
tip of a vast iceberg-the sexual fantasy life of men.
But here's the good news: Every woman is desirable
Oll are about to meet three
men your mom would he
proud to see you marry,
but you won't like them
from what you hear COIll-
ing QUI of their mouths. In
order to protect their iden-
tities, I'm going to say
that we mel working the
bOTlobo exhibition at the
San Diego Zoo. It's the kind of big, specific
lie thai would lhrowQurwivesofflhe scent.
I'll share more details about them later,
but for now, it's enough to know that all of
us-me, and let's call them Bart, Charlie,
and J ohannes-are very happily married
dads in our thirties; "model husbands and
is the way the papers would de-
scribe us if we all got naltcned by asteroids.
To the best of my knowledge, none ofthcm
has ever chealed on his wife. The reason I
have to protect our identities is that we
don't want our wives to know that we
spend our days doing little else besi des
fantasizing about cheating on them.
J ohannes speaks for all of us when he says,
wife's really smart. She's got to have
an idea how dominant sexual thoughts are
in men, generally. But if she were to really
think about how it's constantly on my
mind, she'd be very disappointed. She
likes to think I'm more evolved than most
men. But I'm not."
My wi fe of five years has no illusions
about me being "evolved" in any way, but
that doesn't mean I'd willingly grant her an
all-access pass to my thoughts. When I
walk the streets on a sunny summer day
and the women are out, wearing spaghetti-
strap tops and short skirts, their legs bare,
the internal monologue starts. The voice in
my head, by the way, sounds like Barry
White's. Oh, yeah. Oh, you like that, right?
You mean you wanl it in Ihtrt? Oh, yeah.
The running monologue, I find, is fa-
miliar to all three of my friends, but I was
surprised to learn that Bart's monologue
isn't merely internal. Unlike the rest of us,
who scope it pied, Bart, an attorney,
spends a lot of time in his car. "I frequenlly
think that if Felicia ever installed a camera
in the car, our marriage would be over
after one afternoon of her watching me
drive around," he tells me as he idles in
front of his house, feeling, he says, "like a
molester" when he talks about the women
he ogles from a minivan outfitted with two
car sealS. Bart is objectively the biggest
stud among us. He played varsity sports in
high schoo!, and accomplished women
still squeal like cheerleaders in his pres-
ellce. He says he checks out nearly every
woman on Lhe sLreet. "I don't stop the car,"
he says. I' ll rarely turn around after
they've passed, but I slow down a 101. And
then it's usually followed by my sayi ng out
loud some really nasty comment you'd ex-
pect from a sexual ly repressed SO-year-old
man." Like, for instance? uI find myself
saying stuff that doesn't make a lot of
sense, but I always say it like I'm speaking
to her, like, ' I'd rip that shit off.'''
Johannes might be best described as a
arrow_" Married for five years,
he's an extremely intelligent Ivy League-
educated guy who, because of his work in
higher education, is a recognized pillarofhis
community. But he's one of the few men I've
known who've actually been able to parlay a
sensitive-b'1lY image into sex with hot
women. \Veoften marvel at howwomen per-
ceiveJohannes as particularly enlightened,
because he's by far the doggiest of us all. For
years, he's boasted that his potency was such
that,briven the opportunity, he would be able
to reach orgasm with any woman on earth,
provided she'd had a good bath first. uA
stench," he notes, be a problem."
So it's no surprise that, like Bart, when
J ohannes walks down the street, check
out just about everyone of them I walk by,"
he says. "There's an evaluation of every
woman that crosses my path."
For me, the appearance of bare female
skin on spring's first warm day is a joyous
occasion, a sort of midyear men's-onl y
Christmas that wi1l1ast through early Sep-
tember. On the street recently, I realized
that it's not entirely about seeing exposed
nesh, however; it's about clothes-shorts,
miniskirts- that seem so easily pulled
aside for quick access. It's the feeling that
with a gentle sweeping off of the shoul der
strap, I-a perfect stranger-could have
this beautiful woman topless in a fraction of
a second, which gives rise to the idea that I
could drop to my knees right there on the
sidewalk and be kissing her bare breast, a
sensation that would feel so good she would
be powerless to resist.
So I decided to try to quantify my urges_
I stood in front of various businesses in the
town where I live, a tally clicker hidden in
each hand, and cl icked a yes or no for every
woman of appropriate age-roughly 18 to
60-who walked through the doors of
those establishments wit hin a four-minut e
period. I brought along my friend Diane,
who had agreed to join me so that I'd look
more like a researcher, less like a pervert.
At most locales, my counters came up
with the same statistic: roughly half of the
women r saw were fantasizable: 45 yes, 47
no at the fancy cosmetics retailer; 16 yes, 15
no atthe sceney brasserie where I ate lunch.
Fifty percent seeme<l low to me and almost
inconceivably high to Diane. Only two
spots produced atypical results. At the kid-
friendly novelty chocolatier, I cl icked 35
yesses and 4(i nos, but mostly because there
were many uncomfortably attractive girls
who had to be nos (as I couldn't be sure they
were above the age of consent). And in front
of the expensive clothing bout ique I clicked
yes to a full 75 percent. That was because
only four women walked in during myfour-
minute time frame, and one of them hap-
pened to be the famous modelJ essica Starn.
Di ane was and remains perplexed by the
whole thing. "How do you get any work
done?" she marvels. "Wi th all this imagi-
nary sex going on in your brain, how do you
even drive without smashing into trees?"
Men easily compartmentalize at work, I
expl ai n to her, and the sex brain and driv-
ing brain seem remote enough from each
ot her to be able to operate quite well simul-
taneously. Diane finds this an unsatisfyi ng
answer. "Okay, but I just want to know what
is it about sex with women who you don't
know?" I narrow my eyes, trying to appear
as though I am giving her question serious
chin-stroking cObritation, but all the while
I'm thinking about the howlsoflaughter the
question will elicit when J relate it to the
guys {and I admit I might have glanced at
her breasts}. just don't think I'm ever
going to answer this question to your sat is-
faction," r say finally. "Do you go to the zoo
and ask the tigers why they like meat?"
I imagine that a woman walks down the
street armed with a list of things that would
prevent her from fantasizing about men:
too fat, too old, too bald. Pleated Dockers
would likely kill her ardor. And given the
miniscule number of George Clooneys I
spot in a day versus the scads of J essica
Simpsons bounci ng along, 1 sympathize
with women_
Our internal checklist is far more forf,ri v-
ing and inclusive. Saggy breasts? Fun, like
nesh Slinkysl Neck tattoo? Dangerously
sexy. J ohannes believes that it's not even a
physical list that women carry in their
heads. "For the most part, I think they're
probably determini ng whether or not he
looks like a good provider," he says.
I actuall y disagree; I think women too
are swept away by fantasy but just indul ge
much, much less frequently. They're nib-
bling tea sandwiches once a fortnight while
we're competing in dail y all-you-can-eat-
chimichanga contests. Bart's particular
method of imagination-"what 1 call 'the
draft ,'" he says-has been honed by his
jockey background_ "If I'm in a cont ained
area, like on an airplane or in a conference,
I'll rank every woman in terms of whi ch I
would do first, next, and so on. And after
I've done the draft, I' ll start trading, like
saying, if I could [fillet] number
nine and 10 toget her, woul d I trade that ex-
perience to lfillet] number one alone?"
We're all
haunted by
the Ghosts of
Sex Not Had.
For J ohannes, fantasizi ng about nearly
every woman he encounters on the street
is impossible; he must make split-second
decisions about where to expend his
resources, where to direct hi s gaze for the
seconds a woman's in his orbit. "I find that
I'm always focused much more on the
lfragolt] than on the 1 meloni] or face," he
says. a woman hasa nice !Jragole]-and
I think there's a broad range of lfragolil
that can be considered nice-she's going
to have a nice body overal l. Maybe it's not
goi ng to tell you if she has a nice pai r of
[mtloni], but you know if she has a nice
lfragole], she's not going to have a flabby
mi dsection." And after he's made his as-
sessment-more often than not, from be-
hind and without having ever seen her
face-"the whole thing pretty quickly
shifts to wanting to undress her and sleep
with her." That's it? You don't take it fur -
ther? "Oh, no. I take it pretty far. I'm
usually thinking about sticking my face
into her lfragolt ]." I'm not sure I under-
stand. Are you talking about [deglazing]
her [zabaglione]? Or actually sticking your
tongue in her [jragolr]? "Both," he says.
"It 's about getting both lJragole] and
kabagliont ] action."
Charlie is more specific in his tastes
than either Bart or J ohannes. I'd always
known of his fi xation on women wi th large
breasts. Periodi cally over the years, he's
inquired about my wife's sizeable rack,
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asking me if she still leiS me [fillet] her
[meloni]. He actually admitted Lo having
[deboned] his [salsicciaJ while thinking
about her chest. The image creeped me
oul a little at the time, but I also remember
feeling flattered that given all his choices,
my wife was worthy of fantasy. My pride
would cease, of course, if I ever got the
slightest inkling that my wife would enjoy
having his dirty [salsiccia] flopping around
anywhere near her [meloni].
I've always known Charlie Lo be a
[mewni] man. But I'd never fully understood
the lengths-and depths-he'd go for them.
For starters, he'll sometimes use his three
toddlers as unwilting assistanLs.
have been times when I've been walk ing
down the street, and a woman will look at
the kids in the stroller, and the moment I no-
tice her eyes are averted, I' ll get myself a
good eyefuL" An eyeful is about all it takes.
"If I can see the cleavage, I wi ll instantly
think about [filleting] her [mtloni]." Does
the fantasy go beyond that? I'm not
thinking about taking her to Palm Beach
and [filleting] her [nuloni] by the ocean!"
To a certain extent, all of us feel like
we're imposters, dogs outfitted with pipes
and newspapers nervously sitting at the
kitchen table railing against Jesse J ames
and Tiger Woods, hoping that our wives
don't notice our wagging tails. But we are
petrified of our wives leaving us, so we go
along to get along_ And though I may troll
the websites of local escort services, or the
Facebook photos of all the missed opportu-
nities of my past, I'm never going to pick up
the phone and call a hooker, or suggestively
my fifth-period study-hall crush.
Neither are my friends. But it's not purely
out of reverence for the institution of mar-
riage_ I happen to think that cohabitation
and co-parenting are natural for human
couples; monogamy, though possibly a nat-
ura l state for women, is not natural for men.
It's not a moral issue for us, but we know it's
an intractable moral issue for our wives.
Similarly, I refrain from cheating be-
cause I know if I got caught, it would likely
spell the end of a very good thing. "I have
too much invested in what 1 have right
now," says Charlie, explaining the reason
he'd never seriously ponder cheating_ By far
the most old-fashioned and romantic of
us-he speaks of a I most instantly "fa IIi ng in
love" with women seated across the aisle
from him on an airplane and imagining not
just sex, but montages of a life tOb'"Cther-
Charlie is the only man I've ever encoun-
tered who consciously inserts his wife into
his sexual fantasies to keep his attraction
from diminishing. "It is very difficult to
imagine a situation where I would think it
was worth risking everything I have, the
love 1 have for my wife, the well-being of my
children, the home we've built, all that
stu IT," he adds. "I just can't imagine bring-
ing that chaos, that level of drama into my
life. Maybe I'm not an interesting enough
person to have an alTair." But what ifthe risk
of getting caught were eliminated?
"I've spent some time thinking about
that," Johannes says. "I'm convinced there
are moments 1 would be vulnerable to ac-
cepting that afTer. Maybe I'm far from
home, I've had a few drinks, and am really
making a connection to a woman, 1 could
see it happening. But if I were here at home,
even with the knowledge that I wouldn't be
found out, I hope I would have the presence
of mind to know how horrible I would feel
afterward and say no."
Maybe_ It 's hard to know what choices
we'd make if we lived in a risk-free world.
I might be too busy smoking cigarettes and
skydiving to even have time for extra-
marital sex.
It's not t hat we're looking for new busi-
ness or looking to cheaL It's that we're all
Hau nted by the Ghosts of Sex Not Had. I
can't count the number of times I've fanta-
sized about Sue Ellen Brown, the raven-
haired hotel clerk I worked with in college,
who always wore her white work shirts
open one button too many, suggesting a
milky heaven beneath, waiting to be un-
veiled. One night, she needed a lift home
after a late shifL. As we sat idling in front of
her apartment building, rain began to
sprinkle the windshield, and we heard dis-
tant thunder. "I get so scared sleeping alone
in stonns," she said.
And then I let hergo in, to sleep alone.
Was it that I was in a relationship at the
moment, was trying to be respectful? I
can't quite remember. Yet for decades, I've
yearned to get another crack at that night,
even though in all likelihood, it wouldn't
have been so great; one-night stands by
and large disappoint But there are no
whiskey dicks, bad breath, or grating post-
coital chats in Sex Not Had. Sex Not Had
always looks a lot like 9\2 Wteks.
Bart has a Ghost of Sex Not Had that
now haunts mt.
Bart: I was at lunch with a colleague-
you know that little guy you met that wears
a Bluetooth headset in each ear, who we
call Office Hamster? And this girl-I
would say she was 28, blond, really hot,
miniskirt, ruck-me pumps-was with an
older woman having lunch at another
table, and she and J started making eye
contact. But then when she left the restau-
rant, she waved her business card in the air
and placed it on the table behind Office
Hamster. As soon as she left the restaurant,
I had him turn around and grab it. He
thought it was like the coolest thing he'd
ever seen. So I called her when I got back to
my office, and she was staying in town for a
conference. I picked herup in the lobby bar
at her hotel; she was having dinner across
town with a bunch of people, and I had to
go back to the office. I drove herto herdin-
ner, and on the way, she gave me a blow job
in the car.
Me: Noway.
Barl: All the way across town, which
takes, like, a half hour. It was amazing. We
were going to hook up after dinner, but by
the time I got home from work, I was really
tired and I'd had, like, four beers. When
she called me, it was midnight. I had just
fallen asleep. And she was like, "Come
pick me up." I said, "Why don't you take a
cab here?" She got offended. She was like,
"You know, you're missing out on the most
mind-blowing sex you're ever going to
have." I was like, "Yeah. I just don't feel like
facing crosstown traffic."
Me: Did you kick yourself afterward?
Barl: I've been kicking myself ever
since. Oh, God.
There's barel y room for these misty water-
color memories in the comers of my mind,
what with all the Yo Cabha Cabba!lyrics rat-
tling around since the advent of my daugh-
ter. But I sti ll love having sex with my wi fe.
This is not to say that my wife would rank
No. I if I put her into a Bart-style fantasy
draft, pilled against the Ukrainian babysit-
ter with the "big naturals" or my favorite
bank teller, who wears a pantsuit like a sau-
sage casing. No one I've had sex with even
once, lei alone the woman I sleep next to
every night, would fare well in that contest.
But the only question that has any real-
world relevance, after the groaning and
spasms, is, who do I want to be with? And
my wife-not a woman who feel s the need
to swim naked in the grotto at the Playboy
Mansion-is it. When I tell her 1 love her, 1
mean it in the deepest way imaginable.
I'm certainl y attracted to my wife; all it
takes for me to feel the urge to mount is
seeing her naked. I'm easy (as are,
apparently, all men)_ But it's amazing how
infrequently it happens; she's always com-
ing to bed in some huge Corporate Mini-
Triathlon Challenge T-shirt. And it's not
like she's avoiding me; occasionally, she'll
ask me if I'm still attracted to her, because
she thinks we're not having nearly enough
sex. On the occasions when exhaustion
and corporate-challenge clothing don't
prevent us from having sex, it's always hot,
and I find myself thinking how lucky I am,
and, Wow, we really should give up Danc-
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SECRETS AND L ES
Is it always a betrayal to talk about your husband
with another man? What about girlfriends ...
or astrologists7 Is conjugal discretion a sign of
character or a crutch for people who can't bear
the truth about their marriage?
By Lesley Dormen
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was unfaithful to my husband
with an astrologer last winter. I
made the appointment with the
famous man to find out if I'd ever
crack my wliler's block. 1 believe
the secrets of the universe are
everywhere. Why wouldn't the
planets be holding a few?
"You don't seem lhe
astrologer said after I'd made a
few introductory comments: full disclosure
of my husband's Virgo-ish vicw of both as-
trology and credit card debt, along with the
irony Lhall wasspendingSI50 to f'ind out if
I had a hope in hell of paying my AmEx bill
before I was forced to fess up and create a
crisis in my marriage-at which point I def-
initely wouldn't be able [0 write, because I
CQuid be living on the street. I threw in
some stuff about the money issues in my
husband's first marriage as well as a few
gory details aboUl the affair he'd had that
brought his former life crashing down.
The astrologist's non sequitur of an ob
servation shut me up. And not in a good
way. Was not seeming married a compli
ment? An insult? Something else? I began
to feel unmoored.
seem up for he contin
ued. you're ready to give up your
phone number 10 whoever asks."
Okay. It was an insult. I knew because
my cheeks burned. And it 's true! I amup for
anything! On the other hand, no one has
proposed much of anything. What a per
fectly Libran predicament.
you're not writing by May, I'd bel,rin
to the astrologer concluded.
I tore off a check and walked out. Then I
got mad. What was it about me that said
married"? What does "married" look
like? Forthat maller, what does for any
thing" look like? That astrologer pulled me
back down to earth. (He also rorgot to give
me my chart.) I hated that I'd offered him
even innocuous details about my marriage.
How dare he? It got me thinking about mar
riage and privacy. When is it okay to talk
about your marriage, when isn't it, and who
decides? Is privacy a trust issue, a loyalty
issue, or more about context and intention-
invasion of marital privacy versus lunch
with your best friend?
I'm not the kind of woman who blabs
marital intimacies to a stranger on a plane
out of some deranged need for attention,
coupled with a moronic ignorance of where
I leave off and another person begins. I'm
hyperaware of boundaries, no doubt be-
cause J had a childhood in which some cru-
cial ones were crossed. I know my own fault
lines. They lead me to worry that at any
moment I could turn into the devil in
my marriage. Philosophy professor Robert
Solomon, in his book About LOllt, says one
characteristic of a good marriage is the be-
lief that your partner is a better person than
you are. By Solomon's standard, my mar-
riage qualifi es. Except my husband really is
forthcoming with anyone outside our team
of two. I find his reticence admirable, ali en,
and sexy. I don't know ifhis reserve is are-
nection of our contented domestic life, a
gender-specific tic, an aspect of his limited
numberof close friends (me), a mild fonn of
Asperger's syndrome, or an arrangement
with the CIA. I don't care. J like it. Yes,
there's a discomfiting gender split there, but
I don't feel any need to reconcile it.
'Vomen talk to one another about men
more or less freely from puberty on. The
I used my husband as
conversational bait while
pondering whether I'd sleep
With another man
a better person than I am. He's modest,
loyal, slow to judge, forgiving, and honest.
He doesn't have to think about boundaries,
he just gets them, in his bones. I think of my-
self as a good-enough perSOll. So let's just say
I'm better acquainted with the dark side of
my husband's exemplary qualities.
I' m promiscuous, for one thing. Not sex-
ually. At least not to date. When my hus-
band was out of work for a time, spending
his days much like I spend mine- i.e., at
home eng-dged in what looks an awful lot
like vague, unproductive acti vity-I had to
stine a growing impatience. Grt a job, al-
ready! I found myself thinking. What if I
want to halll an affair? That's what I mean.
I've been married for 16 years, but I'm am-
bivalent about the institution. I love and
need its security; I worry about its unfortu-
nate tendency to narrow life's possibilities.
What I am is verbally promiscuous. (See
astrologer, above.) I wasn't always. I used to
be so opaque as to earn the nickname
Sphinx in some quarters. Playing it close to
the vest was less my style than an element of
my personal defense system, cobbled to-
gether from fear that personal disclosure
would reveal only wounds that had yet to
scar over. 'Vhen I became a writer and
learned how to hide behind bolder
personae, when I began my relationship
with Zoloft, when after zillions of psycho-
therapy sessions I made a life I loved-
when I grew up- I turned out to have
plenty to say and was no longer shy about
saying it. These days, you can see right
through me, and I'm pretty sure many of
my writing students and some of my friends
occasionally wish I would shut up.
My husband is a man like many other
husbands, r think. He is extravagantly un-
freedom to exchange private information
about boys is one of the first ways we de-
clare our independence from parents. 'Ve
learn early on that boy talk is a sociall ubri-
cant. And when a romantic enterprise
crashes and burns, whom else do we con-
vene to jud!,'e the clues leadingto its demise
but a jury of our peers? That freewheeling
talk tends to stop when the honeymoon is
over. Short of real marital crisis-when we
may turn to a trusted friend or relative or
professional maniage whisperer-most of
us dine out on innocuous marriage stories,
not the real deal. A woman enters marriage
through a door and closes it firmly behind
her. No one else is allowed to see in.
Prior to the eighteenth century, there
wasn't any privacy. Astonishing, right ?
Laura Kipnis makes this point in her book,
Against Lovl, in a discussion of our ten-
dency to cast the past in our own modern
image. She quotes the historian Phillipe
Aries: the end of the seventeenth
century, nobody was ever left alone."
'Vhoa. Maybe your mind has already
jumped to the lack of privacy in our own
big bloggermouth of a world, what with The
Rcal Housewives and Facebook and your
monthly book club. Does marital discre-
tion (the phrase sure sounds elegant and
deSirable) have more to do with moral
character and personal dignity, or is it
mere convention? I n the old days, digni ty
must have been as hard to preserve as pri-
vacy, what with all those relatives and in-
laws, their physical proximity and poor
hygiene and annoying personalities-or
the tempting opposite of those things-
crowded into the same four walls. That lit-
erallack of privacy is mostly unimaginable
today. Yet everyone seems to agree that
when it comes to child rearing, "it takes a
villa!,'e." We sigh nostal!,rically over those
precious lost communities, where every-
body looked out for everyone else. Why is
marriage so determined to close the door
behind itself? Are we ashamed of our-
selves, of our messy married lives? 'Vhat is
it we're hiding? Or protecting?
A few years back, at a writer's colony in
another country, I met a man I loved talk-
ing to. A sympathy sprang up between us,
as it does whether certain individuals are
married or not. He too was married-we
were there without our spouses, consigned
to watching the romantic entanglements
that play out in such settings from the side-
lines-and one night we went to dinner.
Walking back to the village afterward,
side by side in the unfamiliar darkening
night, this lovely man confided some trou-
bles in his marriage. I listened with the
open, curious heart of a potential new
friend. Then I dropped my guard and re-
ciprocated. I told him things about my
OWll marriage, private things. I told him
that I'd married "against my naturet
meaning I'd chosen a man who didn't
excite the anxieties that had ruled and
ruined most of my previous relationships.
I'd never said such a thing out loud before
and wasn't entirely sure it was even true,
but J liked trying out my unfiltered self
alongside someone I sensed might value
the exchange. I spoke as a woman, not a
wife, and maybe because he was a man
and J am a wife , the sweetness of the sud-
den intimacy also contained a not unpleas-
ant current of danger. The danger wasn't
about an affair shimmering on the hori-
zon; it was about making myself vulnera-
ble to another human being, the
heart-palpitating intimacy of reciprocal
self-disclosure.
I didn't feel I'd invaded the privacy of
my marriage, but some would say that any
intimate conversation with a man (col-
league, friend, stranger) who's not your
husband is a violation of marital fidelity
unless you tell your spouse about it-and it
doesn't matter whether the tete-a-tete takes
place in bed or even trespasses into your
marriage. Think of all those films about
adultery. There's typically that scene in
which the woman (it's always the woman),
lying in her lover's arms, hesitates to dis-
cuss her husband or marriage, though her
lover prods. We see the discomfort cross
her face. We might be rooting for her affair,
but we see she's a good person, and so are
we, so we draw the line along with her. (Un-
less her husband beats her up. ) Maybe
that 's what was so bracing about Vera
Farmiga's role as George Clooney's lover
in Up in the Air. You'lJ have to see the
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Tormented? Driven witless? Whipsawed by confusion?
Dolis, this month's misadvent ures star the
glamour boirls who have the titillating sala-
ries, the glitleringjobs, and the rich falhers.
Their dilemmas aren't new-they're some
of the oldest ill the book-but the writers'
wit and honesty speak to the trut hs of the
very strange limes we live in.
Three Weeks in Paris, or ... the Death of
True love
Dear E.lt on: 1 wt this guy on a trip to Milan.
Wr hoth work in the media, and wt hit it off
when he craclud a joke about how he was afraid I
might 1M "one o/those bitchy [ashianista girls who
are out of his league."
I am. (Or was.)
/ saw him again in T()kyo. This lime, he was
cool and aloof, SQ J retaliated by treating him lilu
mud on my Choo. OJ courSl, he came crawling
back. We had dinncr in Paris (I gave up other
plans to see him) and went back to his hotd to
"watch a DVD," code for sex. I told him how
much I liked him, and he said I cauidn'l be mare
perfect. We had three incredible weeks together
in France.
On the flight back home to New York I
fell uncomfortahle "down there." Two days later,
I couldn't even sil down. I wenllo my doclor and
discovered I had herpes. I wassoangry, I immedi-
ately called him. He swore he hadn't had an out-
bred for five years. I forgave him, but I wauM
have liked him to show a little morc(()mpassion.
However, the next day, I CGmpletefy lost it and
called him every name in the book. He said he'd
never speak to me again.
Since then I've sent him an e-mail apolagi<.-
ing. He never replied. Don'll deservea resPQlISe?
This guy has wasted my lift and ruined my
health.' My future prospects wilh allY other man
all now destroyed. I have a dirty little secret and
feel thescarlrtletlerH burning into myflesh. Yes,
we used CGndoms, but apparently they're not 100
percent foolproof I'll no doubt run inlo him at
same media event in New York, and I need ta fig-
ure aut how /() handle him. I don't want ta walk
in looking like the loser he made me realia I am.
I'm not/abulous enough anymore 10 act like he
doesn't exist. So what shouM I say when we meet?
in One: Leper, Loser, and Lowlift
My dearest L: Oh, please. You can stride
into that room, lock eyes, and salute him
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with a simple been burning to see
you, you clod." Of course, your doctor will
be shocked to be addressed as a "clod,"
but no matter. Your physician laid some
cold-blooded bullshit on you and needs a
comeuppance.
Oh. You thought at first I was talking
about the dude in Paris? He's a cad (and
we'll get to him in a moment). What J want
to know is: What century is your doclOr liv-
ing in, for God's sake? What kind of cretin
from the dark ages permits you to leave the
examination believing your pros-
pects" are
I've read your letter 10 the celebrated
New York dennatologist Dr. Doris Day
(Myclearskin.com), and she wants you to
know: have every reason to be as
confi dent as ever. Taking medication-
either Valtrex or Famvir-will dear up
you r symptoms and in most c:u>es allow you
to be intimate without being contagious to
your future partners." Dr. Day added, "You
may turn out to be one of the fortunate peo-
ple who experiences only one outbreak in
her life. And this may be the case with the
man in Paris. He should have been taking
the medication but probably felt no symp-
toms and believed he wasn't putting you at
risk. Bottom line: With a prescription,
you'll be fine. Your prospects are as won-
derful as they ever
So there: You have your life
back. Take your medication, and Dr. Day
says you can reduce the risk of passing on
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tell you. So when you meet him, no need for
bonhomie. A simple me if I don't
speak; I've seen enough of you to last a life-
time" should be sufficient. And when you
meet someone wondelful, do him the favor
of explaining that you are proteaing both
of you by taking your medication.
The Hollywood Shuffle, or ... "Off With
Her Head!"
Dear E.}ean: I'm reelingfrom an aUack on my
reputation. A higher-up who's quiu powerful in
my company (a major film studio) e-mai/td a
scathing critique of my ptrformanct to top man-
agement. My boss forwarded it to me as an FYI.
You can't imagine the vitriol contained in the
indirrctswipes.
Nonnally, I let this kind of stuff roll off my
back, but / felt compelled to defend myse/ftQ my
boss. From the woksofthings, the way I dQ my job
(i.e., my long-standingcarur here) is not thtway
they want il dont.I'm both tmified of losing my
job and angry enough to say screw them for not
valuing my WQrkl
I've also been spending hard the past few
months on the assumption I have an income.
Now it looks like I'm out. My question is, how
dQ / spin this "bad perfQrmanct" tQ prQspectivt
emplQyers?
-Didn't KnQw I Suck
Didn't Know, my dn.rling: Get up! Come
on! Go save yourjob! You're angry? Good.
You want to tell them to go screw them-
selves? Ust that gall. It wi ll make you look,
paradoxically, a little more in control.
Here's the plan:
Bypass your boss. This is your battle. Go
straight to the person who wrote the
ingcritique."
Once you're in her office, be upbeat, not
a&,>Tessive. State your case without challeng-
ing her judgment. You know her passions,
her vanities. Launch your ideas accordingly.
Quickly note your major accomplishments
and then present ideas for new ways to
raise the fortunes of the studio, which will
help her. If she interrupts, if she froths at
the mouth like a rabid skunk, keep your
composure. You don't have to smile, but
look optimistic. She probably knows more
than you, so let her speak. Studio execs are
under a lot of pressure.
If you can remain standing the whole
time, your energy will be higher. You under-
stand she wants you to do things differently.
Tell her you ca n do it! Ask her to give you a
month to turn things around. Gird your
loins by reading a Lee Child thriller, a Tana
French crime mystery, or David Black's
saucy, high-octane brain-burner The Ex-
tinction Event. It will show you new ways to
Q: I'm engaged, and lately a coworker has been flirting
with me-and I've been flirting back like mad. The other
night we kissed. We both have brilliant careers. I can't
stop myself! What s my problem?
A: Problem? No problem You're simply engaged to the
wrong chap
be faster, stronger, and smarter. (Yes, I've
finally come to believe that a woman can be
more inspired by whining through a thrill-
ing pa1,'C-turner than by slo&,>ing through
17 self-help books.)
The Betrayal, or .. _Happy Is the Woman Who
Finds Refuge in Herself
Dear E.}ean: I conu from a wealthy family.
Wheni was avery )"Ounggirl, myfathtrmofested
me. I didn't tell anyone, not my mother, sisters,
brothers, nanny, or even my grandmothtr. As the
years went Qn, I developed more and mort angtr
and tried tQdealwith my grit/in various ways. I
knew it was wrong of him but felt somehow I
desen'td it (maybe if I was stronger, he wouldn't
have chQsen me).
NQW that he's in his sixties, sufftringfrom
bad health and the efftcts Qf alcohol abuse, my
family sus him as somtOl1t who provides large
amounts of money and nerds to be taktn care of
rather than SQm(()nt to be reckQned with. By the
way, he's still mobile, very active in the church
(as is my mothtr), and, again, he's Ihe bigfi-
nancial source.
Last ytar, in ont of myfitsofangtr direcled at
my mQther, I finally told her why I halt her SQ
much. I said out loud what my father did to me,
and, not 10 my surprist, tht W()rds "I already
kntw" fItw out of her mouth. She also said I
shQuld remember how much he has ''helped'' me
financially and that I should be "mortgra/tful."
Itold her I will never forgive her for choosing
nry father overprotecting htT own child. As for my
father? He's announced he ''will not lower him-
self to discuss the maller." My mother IQ[d my
brothers and sisters (whom I've never been cWse
10) that I made up the whole story as a way to
attack my mother and father. My siblings' money
comes from my fathtr, so they've sidtd with my
parents. / have friends and family memhers whQ
stand by me, but now thai it's out in the open,
why do I feel worst?
-A New Kind of Tough Love
My dear, dear Tough: Why? Because the
man is a scoundrel! As for your mother, I'll
quote the Anglo-Irish philosopher Edmund
Burke: that is necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good women to do I
changed a word there, but it makes the
point. You've had pain, terror, and shame
rained down on you by a pai r of skulking
cowards. Enough!
I and all readers support you with the
strongest alTection, but your parents will
never step up, norwill your siblings. The only
person who can bring you satisfaction and
contentment is yourself. A psychologist spe-
cializing in adult victims of child sex abuse
will guide you. Please start therapy immedi -
ately, and don't waste too many sessions
replaying the past and searching for insights.
Insights are fine when you're feeling secure
and have leisure to renect. But you want to
make the changes that will allow you to feel
happy and better alT .. . now.
The Ring, or ... the Surefire Way to Scare a
Guy Off
Dear E.}ean: What are tht signs that a man is
ready to marry? That ht 's about to produce the
[itlle blue bQx with Ihe engagement ring?
-Gelling Anxious
Miss Anxious, my doorknob: If there's one
question you should never ask Auntie Eeee,
it's this one. Oh, I can tell you the signs all
right (I've been married often enough to
recognize the signs 20 miles 01T), but what
will happen to you if I do? Why, you'll
bebrin 10 look for the sib>"JlS, righl? And when
you look for the signs and don't see the
signs, you'll worry and fret, correct? And
when you worry and fret, you'll start pester-
ing the poor chap with the "I'm afraid I'm
losing you"s and the "What's wTQng,
darling"s and the "\ Vhere do we
And when you start pestering the chap with
the "Where do we stand"s, you'll kill your
sexy, tantalizing mystery-the very attri-
bute that would have caused him to ask you
to plight your troth in the first place. Trust
Auntie Ecce. Stop thinking about the en-
gagement ring, and simply be Cllgaging.
To ask a qutstion, write /Q e.jean@askejean
.com. Or /Q see mQre columns, go to ELLE.com!
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Right now, fashion is about seduction. We're confident
thai this season's dark romance will give you that goua-have-il sensation-
as it has 10 those of us at ELL-at a glance. Firsl up, cover girl Drew Barry-
more exposes the smoldering sensuality that underlies her usual sunshiny
demeanor in sexy all-black looks from Miu Miu and Donna Karan_ Then it's
off to the mysterious streets of Paris-who can abstain from the CilyofLight 's
delights?-and to the dramatic sta1,re of Lincoln Center, which next month
becomes the pennancnl home of New York Fashion Week, for whirlwind
affairs with fall's refreshingly strong looks_ Tnt Twilight Saga: Edipst's bewitch-
ing Ashley Greene, who breis our vole for temptation du jour, goes glamorously
Goth. And Isabel Marant, the designer who all the cool girls want to be,
reveals the secret to her artfully layered, can'I-look-away allure a fa JrOllfaist.
I
n a recent morning in Los Angeles,
Drew Barrymore woke up in her
home in the Hollywood hills
around nine o'clock. She tumed
off the TV, which she leaves on
mute throughout the night tuned
to Turner Classic Movies, and
then shut off a groovy [950s fan,
which blasts white noise for undis-
turbed sleep. have the ears of a
young dog," she says. "I hear every
beep and crack. A ticking clock is
my worst nightmare." Last night ,
the coyotes were going wild in the
canyons around her home too. "At first, 1 thought they were attack-
ing a kitten," she says, "but then the female one was mooning so
much, I was like, Oh, they're boning."
Barrymore is usually a social butterfly, but she's been spendinga
lot of time at home recently. "I've been having friends over or going
to their houses for dinner, but that's it," she says. She used to go out
every night to concerts, gallery shows, and premieres. Plus, for the
past decade, Barrymore has been working at a breakneck pace,
filmingmore than a dOZC11 movies,such as 50FirstDaieswith Adam
Sandler and Music and L yricsopposi te Hugh Grant, so it makes sense
she's ready to take stock of where she is now. "For three years
straight, I've been burning the candle at both ends, and as oflast
December, I just didn't have anything left," she says. been so
aggressive about living life to the fullest and being into
everything, but now I've ripped the plugoutofthe wall and put iton
the floor fora She sighs. "I'm thinking about the same things
as when I was 15, about spirituality and who I am, who I want to be.
lt 's cocoon, pupa, larva, and, fuck, I'm rebom!"
These days Drew is holed up with a cluLch of sou I-seeking hooks:
The TeofPiglet, Eckhart Tolle's A NewEarlh, D. H. Lawrence's Sons
and Lovers. This morning, she put the Veils' "The Letter"on her
iPod and lay in bed as it played. "That song has so much yeaming
in it," she says. "I love when people can deliver their pain with such
a lack of a dour nature. It's so beautiful."
This isn't the Drew Ba rrymore who 1 thought 1 was going to
encounter: That Drew Barrymore is an tiber-optimistic hippie
with an open heart and a lopsided smile for everyone she meets.
She's the free spiri t who flashed David Letterman after jumping
on his desk in 1995, trotted across the globe with Cameron Diaz
in the eco-reality show Trippin' 10 years later, and spent her twen -
ties making "fairy-tale like Ever After and Everyone Says I
Love You "because I was so in search of happiness and love." Her
demons were supposed to have been slaughtered long ago, when
she was a 13-year-old drug addict. A New York magazine writer
once summed up her public persona this way: "Drew Barrymore
is sunshine. Drew Barrymore is cookies. Drew Barrymore is
fluffy puppies and mild hallucinogenic drugs, tucked neatly into
a gift basket made of daisies."
I read this description to Barrymore at our meeting later that
day. She's on her second iced tea when she pulls up to Flower Films,
her production company in an elegant converted townhouse in
West Hollywood (a district that is equal parts hipster, Russian
immigrant, and gay man). A curving staircase with ruby red car-
pets leadsup to her office, a cozy lime green room with sun filtering
through two large windows. As she shuffles around, Barrymore
seems not so much downcast as slightly perturbed, distracted by a
situation" that she explains is not going in her favor.
She flops into a chair in a casual outfit-no makeup, flats, dark
jeans, and a vintage military jacket, with a navy Star WanT-shirt
underneath for indie cred and a few thin gold chains spun around
her wrists and neck for a hint of sophistication. Upon hearing the
writer's words, she immediately recoils. not the same
person who has run a company forlhe last 15 years," she declares,
her back stiffening. "I make movies. 1 have a passion. Puppies and
daisies don't accomplish anything." She shakes her head. "That's
notmeatall."
It's true that no one without killer drive and ambition could
achieve Barrymore's exalted slatus in Hollywood. She's the once-
troubled chi ld star who made good, an actress who grew imo a for-
midable producer and director, and, most importantly, a beloved
icon, lhe /,'l"acefully maturing doyenne of Generation X. Last year
was a banner one for Barrymore, with her directorial debut, WhiP
II, and a Golden Globe-winning performance as the spinster Li ttle
Edie in HBO's Grey GardeRS. A Char/irs Angels TV show is in the
works. A feature-film sequel to The ofOzat Wamer Broth-
ers, in development at Flower Films since 1999, may also bein the
offing. She was originally supposed to star as Dorothy as well, but
now she'll probably restrict herself to directing the film. The fact is
that at 35, as one of the executives at her company explains, Barry-
more is probably too ripened to play Dorothy, a woman in her early
twenties and an innocent who hasn't yet learned the rules of life.
After all, Barrymore's not exactly the type of 35-year-old who
seems like she hasn't sowed her oats yet. She's lived a life in dog
years, when you think about it. As the story goes, she was a Holly-
wood bad girl as a young child: She started smoking cigarettes at
9 and weed at 10. By middle school, her complicated mom-the
'80s version of Dina Lohan-was taking her to Hollywood
parties a few times a week to twirl around on the dance floor with
Cher and Jack Nicholson. She had her first drink at Rob Lowe's
twentieth birLhday party at age 9, then began using cocaine shortly
thereafter. She's already been married twice, to a bar owner and
to flash-in-the-pan comedian Tom Green, and says that she
doesn't mind being single now. "If you're 35 and single and it's a
choice, it feels fine," she says. "So I didn't settle with the wrong
person yet. Big deal!"
Barrymore may be "single" in terms of which box she ticks on
her tax returns, but this month she's starring in Going the Distancr,
a light comedy with some dirty parts about a long-distance rela-
tionship, with Justin Long, her on-and-off boyfriend of the past
few years. She plays an aspiring newspaper reporter who finds
the perfect job in San Francisco after she falls in love with an
A&R rep for a music label in New York. It's a romantic comedy
with the raunchy dialogue of aJudd Apatow movie, a kind of
male-oriented chick flick. "We did a lot of improvisation, even
though the original script definitely intimated for the characters
to speak to each other without edit," says the director, Nanette
Burstein. "The intention was not to be vulgar or gratuitous, but
rather to il lustrate the reality of how everyone talks when they are
uninhibited." Barrymore laughs while recounting a drunken
scene in a bar in which she improvised the line "Suck my dick!"
"There were 300-pound grips whose jaws were on the floor when
Drew said that," Long adds. "She has absolutely no fear, and with
comedy especially, that lends itself to such great moments. Her
imaginary dick is quite big, I've got to say."
Long signed up first for Going the Dislanct, but the script
appealed to Barrymore as well. "I like that it's not a traditional
romantic comedy, with the story line of'Oh, I slept with this guy,
but when I woke up, I found out he's the CEO of my company, and
we're going lo live happily ever after once we go through all these
crazy perils," she says, talk shit with my girlfriends, and it can get
She laughs. "Tn a lot of ways, 1 feel like 1 have a little bit ofa
dude inside me-except mine happens to be a 13-year-old boy, not
a fullfledged man." She leans in. like a good strip dub as much
as the next guy. I wouldn'tgo there because I want to gel in with the
guys, but because J actually like it." She also fel t like the film's script
summed up a lot of the issues that are vital to her today. "The con-
versations that I have with my girlfriends are about, how are we
going to make this work when we only see each other every so
often? What should I do if I got fucked up last night and didn't talk
to my guy? What do 1 do when 1 want to go out and party with my
friends?" She shakes her head. "I don't want to give up my job to
have a relationship because I'll resent the relationship, but if 1 just
had my job, I would fee1lone1y and empty."
As far as her relationship with Long is concerned, she doesn't
want to get into it. "It's !lObody's business what he or I do," is the
way she puts it. Long is a little more diplomatic. "In the last few
years, Drew has had a real shift in being more conscielllious about
the dichotomy of her professional and private lives," he says. "It's
important to keep her private life sacred, even though it may seem
like we're going to lengthy ends to do it. That's been my position as
well for the last year and a half. It's easier not to reveal anything,
and it's also important for the psyche."
In fact, Barrymore says that she would rather not reveal any-
thing about her private life anymore. "I don't mean to disempower
what we're doing here," she tells me, "but I hate doing interviews."
She shakes her nearly empty glass of iced tea, trying to mix the ice
with the remaining liquid. "I love buying magazines, and I love
pretending that I run around in a pairofhigh heels and a fun fash-
ion getup for a photograph, but the interview part ? It's just a pain in
the ass." She sighs. "I'd rather be the journalist, getting to spend
time in someone else's world, being in someone else's shoes."
Whether it's s itt ing down for an interview or dealing with an
exasperating work glitch, it seems like Drew has reached a point
where she doesn't want to simply smile through experiences that
she doesn't want to have. That means not starring in charmingrom
corns allthe time, and taking on ambitious parts like both the
young and aging Edie in Grey Gardens, Few other actresses have
such a fascinating combination of being at once a girl -woman, with
her dirty-blond baby bangs, wide eyes, and slight lisp, but also in
tune with the deepening thought and actions that come with age.
Barrymore's secret, she says, is that she's not afraid of getting older:
"I don't want to be vain or fearful , and J don't think I'll do anything
[in terms of plastic surgeryl, but if I want to do something, 1 will,"
she says. "From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of
aging, because if you a!,'C, you're lucky! The alternative is death."
With all her life experience, Barrymore is more like a SO-year-
old than a 35-year-old. Byage 15 she had already been a working
actress for the better part of her life. Born into the Barrymore act
ing dynasty (her grandfather john was a famous actor in the '20s
and '30s, in movies such as Dinner at Eight), she went with her
mother,jaid, to her first audition at II months, for a Puppy Chow
commercial, and she worked consistently from age 2 until she
appeared in E.T at G. She loved acting. She has sai d that she felt
like she came alive when she was doing it, like "a light switch
turned on inside me." She also needed the camaraderie of actors,
crew, and director to offset her un happy home life, which includ-
ed a psychologically abusive and alcoholic fathe r who played
demented games with her, like burning her hand a bit with a candle
to demonstrate the power offearlessness.
Barrymore says she doesn't resent her fami ly anymore, and she
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has gathered agroup offriends such as Cameron Diaz and her Flower
Films partner, Nancy j uvonen, around her as a surrogate family. "I
was raised in unique and trying environments, but they were also
amazing platfonTIs for me to have an extraordinary life," she says.
"Going through hell as a kid made me to what others in this
world go through too." She's glad that she cleaned upasa 13-year-old
kid-by 19S5Jaid had forced herinto rehab-but it does stick in her
craw a bit that she was labeled a drug addict from such an early af,'C.
Word leaked oUI when a National Enquirer reporter jumped l aid in
the waitingroom of the center, and Barrymore was devastated.
National Enquirerruined my life," she says, hereyes blazing, made
people think I was an unstable person. It made people in this lOwn
not want to work with me for years. As far as I'm concemed, the
National she sputters, "suck my dick!" Barry-
more erupts in laughter, then pauses to breathe. J also have to
take some responsibility. They were telling the story because 1 was
doing those things, and it was taboo because I was so young."
After the news went around the world, Barrymore wrote the
best-seller Liuk Girl LOSI, which laid out her debauchery in detail.
The book, a kind of real-life Go ASA-Alice, is a cult classic, but Barry-
more feels ambivalent about its publication. "At 35, I would never
write a book like that, because I really bel ieve it 's no one's business,
but at 14 I felt compelled to set the record straight," she says. She
sighs. !,'1!ess, in a way, it was a good thing, because I would
have been so miserable trying to keep up a facade. That would be
death 10 me. 1 like being someone who is anything but perfect."
Her lips curl up into one of those famous lopsided smiles.
"So, ironically, I thank the National Enquirer," she says. set
me free."
Barrymore is going to spend the afternoon working on the new
Charlie's Angels TV show, and then she' ll head back to her house
to meet a repairman who is going to fix her water filte r and the
TV in her bathroom. don't like plasma screens, so I have an old
box screen, which breaks all the time," she says. "I really like a
TV in the bathroom." Barrymore does most of her work in the
kitchen of her home, which creates a convivial environment.
Framed pictures of her friends hang on every wall-Chris Miller,
an executive from Flower with her on a boat; Nancy with her in
an East Coast cemetery, posing in front of a tombstone that reads
BAR:.lABAS WlllNEs-and she's laughing in all of them. "I love being
around my she says. "I can look at all of them when I
have a stressful work situati on,"
But every morning, before work stress begins, she throws open her
curtains and jumps on her shag rug with Flossie, her 15-year-old yel-
low Lab/Chow mix. "I always have a big session with my dog," she
says. "\Ve gel in that shag, and we roll and we nuzzle, and it's awe-
some. It's the best waytostartthe day." She smiles a little. "You know,
it's true that I'm a dichotomy. I have a split personality. I'm a practical
person who makes movies, and I'm also someone who believes in the
inherent goodness in people. 1 always want to run through fields of
Oowersand be a hippie, and I'll probably always want to do thaI." She
leans forward. that doesn't mean you can't fight for what you
believe in, be strong, and have a backbone. You have to have your balls."
In her office, Barrymore picks up a script for Whip [land pages
through it lon!,ringl y-she wants so badly to direct again.
best thing about being 35 is that if J was lucky enough, with my
health and life span, J might be able to do it all over again," she
says, putting it back on a shelf. Thirty-five plus 35 equals 70, and
that would be a long life. next 35 years are asecond chance at
life," Barrymore says. "I wonder how it will go-what I will take,
and what J will leave. It's fascinating."
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US STYLE INVASION. BY ANNE SLOWEY
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don't like things thal are 100 perfeclt says designer Isa-
bel MaranL On this sunny weekday morning, the high
priestess of French indie fashion is inspecting the win-
dow displays orher first U.S. boutique, a 2,500-square-
foot showplace on the corner of Broome and Greene
streets in New York City's SoHo. Standing with her
arms crossed and hcr head cocked to one side, hcr hair
mussed up into this season's topknot, Marant is sporl-
ing a studded denim shirt under a nubby tweed jacket;
a nippant, pleated miniskirt made from what looks like
it could be a very expensive dish towel; and a pair of shit-kicker
work boots. A varialion on the laid-back glamour she perfected
years ago, it's a look that fashion insiders can't get enough offor fall.
Nor can older gentlemen, evident ly. When one passes by and
openly admires the coltish legs displayed beneath her barely there
hemline, Marant shrugs, unfazed. "I'm luckyt she says. "I have
great legs."
But her sulky French pout dissolves into a disarming grin when
conversation turns to her recent leap in popularity. been
dOingwhat I do for20 years," she says, with anotherofthose shrugs.
"When Tom Ford was doing very sexy, 1 was doing the opposite. I
never follow trends." Marant's genius lies in the artful mismatch of
her ethnic inspired wovens and oftborrowed utilitarian items-
mechanics' suits, sweatshirts-to achieve a look that 's more playful
than pulled together: pythonprint pants, say, with an oversize her-
ringbone jacket, aslightly garish print blouse, and a pair of studded
ankle boots. "I always liked classic," the 40yearold says. "But
when you are too dressld, it's too conservative." It 's a uniform that is
just polished enough for the office but never looks contrived. Per-
fect for the sort of girl who works a highpower job but spends her
weekends in a cabin in the woods without electricity or water, as
Marant does in Fountainebleau, France, with her husband, acces-
sories designer J erome Dreyfuss, and their seven-yearold son, Tal.
The daughter of a German model and a French bUSinessman,
Marantgrew up in Paris and by her teens was making clothes for
herself and her friends on a sewing machine that was a gift from her
father. After graduating from Paris' Studio Ben;:ot in 1987, she col-
laborated with Michel Klein, worked with Yohji Yamamoto and
Chloe, and launched a jewelry line in 1989; by20, she had also start-
ed a knitwear company with her mother. Three years later, in 1994,
that line evolved into the Isabel Marant label, an expression of both
her eclectic nature and eternal wanderlust. 16, my dream was to
travel the world," she says. "My first trip, J went to Ghana for three
months, but I told mydad I went to England."
She trics on everything herself before deciding whether or not to
send it down the runway. "My customer is looking for something that
is comfortable, easy to wear, but slightly different. It's myself, really,"
says the desib'1ler, who has the real world beauty of Jane Birkin
or Isabelle Huppert and the sprightliness of a prepubescent minx
(hence the miniskirt). Mar,mt shares her appeal with the ultracool
beauties who wear her clothes-women who prefer a notsoobvious
glamour, such as Miranda Kerr and early adopter Kirsten Dunst.
Marant's fans range in age from 16to 70 and include the former first
lady of France Bernadette Chirac, who adores her blouses. "Older
cuSlomers wear the same jacket, but with a more refined skirt," the de-
signer says. "I put it together, but 1 like that women take itapart."
For fall, Marant, too, is striving for something a little more
grown up. "At 20, style comes first," she says. "At 40, you are much
more interested in good fabric and precise tailoring." Thi s season,
her clothes are simpler and cleaner, a little less boho, but with that
slightly haughty nirtatiousness sti ll intact. They're inspired by "the
way intellectuals dressed in SI. Germain in Paris from the end of
the '50s until 1968," she says. Sagan. They all wore the
same thing every day. Supersimple but always precise-the right
trouser, the right shoe, the well cut coat." Fall's easy highwaisted
pleated pants and prep school blazers also prove to be perfect tran
sition foils for her spring/summer collection of Gustav Klimt-
inspired prints. goes with everything," says Marant,
who has always valued that carefree continuity; if you've collected
her clothes for years, you should find yourself with a wardrobe fu II
of season less interchangeable pieces.
Marant mostly uses fabrics woven exclusively for her label,
which lends her clothes their oneof a kind appeal and makes them
worth the sometimes hefty price tag ($200 10 $6,500). And her
toyearold lower priced line, Etoile ($150 to $(00), has allowed a
younger audience to buy into her gestalt. Until now, the missing
piece in the puzzle has been a dreamedofNew York City boutique.
Last year, with rents low and the euro strong, she decided 10 take
the plunge-not with a tiny boutique, but with a proper U.S. nag
ship. "I' m not a small designer anymoret she says.
That is clear from the moment you enter herstore, which opened
in April. (Dreyfuss, whose cultish handbags were bestsellers at
Barneys, opened his own store in the same building in March.) The
building's original features-Corinthian columns, decorative cor
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unadulterated, with clothes hanging from industrial racks and, in
the center, a Donald J udd- like wooden box with a hidden door
leading 10 jewelry and eveni ng bags. The luxury is in its spacious
ness; everything else here seems wittily humble, including one of
Marant's favorite items, a furlined vest covered in fabric woven in
Delhi. treat of fur is to have it on your skin," she says. "So I
turned it inside out."
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had begun with whatever number of fetuses she
ends up with. So given the roughly 1\ percent
chance of miso:arrying twins, compared with 4
percent for a single baby, a woman who has a re-
duction cuts in half her odds of losing her preg-
nancy. Moreover, national health data shows
that twins are more than five times as likely to be
born premature before weeks, seven times
more likely to be born prior to :J2 weeks, and
nine times more likely to have a low birth weight.
In a paper examining these ri sks in the journal
ObstetriC!; & Gynec(}/ogy, Evans and his coauthors
concluded: data suggest that the likelihood
of taking home a baby is higher after reduction
than remaining with
But the medical benefits didn't drive our deci-
sion- which Wal; true among posters on the selec-
tive reduction message board: Even if they said
they hoped to maximize their chances
home a baby," they didn't think friends and fam-
ily would buy it. "Don't tell anyone," they ad-
vised. already mentioned that you were
pregnant with twins, say that the other one van-
I'd told a few friends that my hormone
levels might indicate two fetuses, but now I lied,
saying my doctor had been mistaken.
"Thank God," my sister-in-law exclaimed.
She told me about a single friend who got preg-
nant with artificial insemination and was consid-
ering aborting one of the fetuses. "Can yoo
imagine? It 's like there will always be this secret
from the
"Well, can you blame her?" I snapped. "It'd
be hard enough to have one on your own, but
two?" What I wanted to add but didn't was that
despite working parttime and having a full-
time nanny and a relatively helpful husband,
my sister-i n-law complained incessantly about
how exhausted she was caring for two kids, two
kids who were three years apart. I was taken
aback by the ferocity of her judgment- particu-
larly since I'd heard her argue just as fervently
for a woman's right to choose. But I'd begun to
realize that people viewed selective reduction
in its own category: You weren't terminating an
unwanted accidental pregnancy; you were
making a "Sophie's Choice" between siblings,
something a good mother would do only with a
gun to her head.
My husband told me he'd support whatever
choice I made, but for him, there really was no
choice. Our twins weren't part of God's plan, he
reasoned (orrationalized?). They were the prod-
uct of artificial insemination. If we'd become
pregnant with twins naturall y, would we be
making the same decision? I didn' t know. All I
knewwal; that ultimately, I didn't think we could
have twins and remain an intact, happy-enough
family. Perversely, I held oot hope that the CVS
would show that one of the fetuses had an abnor-
mality. But when the genetic counselor called
with the results, she informed me, in the chipper
voice of a weatherwoman reporting sunny skies,
that both my babies were healthy.
My mother came into town to watch our son
while my husband and I traveled to a neighbor-
ing state for the reduction. She was one of the few
people I'd confided in. Initi ally, she'd offered to
help take care of the twins if we kept them.
"Maybe you could move doser, or I could move
there .... " And then the conversation trailed off,
al; we both realized the unlikelihood of eitherop-
tion.Just as my husband and I weren't the types
who coold easily roll with however many babies
came our way, my mother wasn't the type to up-
root her existence to care for her grown daugh-
ter's chi ldren. (I couldn't imagi ne accepting my
mother'soffer, anyway. For better or worse, peo-
ple in my family take care of themselves. ) Now,
as my husband and I headed out the door, my
mother briefly hugged me and assured me that
we were doing the right thing, which unleashed
the lears I'd been fight i ng back all morning.
I called over my shoulder to my
son in a wobbly voice.
Mommy," he replied, happily building
a block tower with Grandma.
My husband and I passed the hour-and-a-half
car ride mostly in silence. Every once in a while,
he'd reach over and squeeze my hand.
to be okay," he said a few times.
After another stretch of silence, I asked,
you say a prayer when they're doing it?"
He glanced at me, looking slightly surprised.
Of Neither of us is very religiOUS,
but I wanted God to know that he or she, or what-
ever form God took, hadn't heen forgotten.
There a long wait. I worked on a compli-
cated cable-knit sweater I was making for our
son, happy my hands and brain were eng-dged.
After the first hour, my husband said he wished
he had some knilling too. OccaSionally, rd scan
the faces of the other women in the crowded
waiting room. Though the coffee tables here
were also piled with copies of Fit Prtg7umcy and
Parenting, hardly anyone was looking at them.
Instead, they watched a TV tuned 10 a talk show
or challed quietly with a companion.
Paige?" called a nurse.
Clutching the knitting needles, my hands
froze. I could just not answer, I thought. We
could get back in the car and drive home. We
coold keep both babies .md make it work, just
like we'd absorb and face all the other challenges
that were bound to ari se: the death of our par-
ents, financial struggles, our own mortality. In-
stead, I took a deep breath and reached for my
husband's hand. J said.
Our doctor lold us that she'd take into ac-
coont any gender preference if the CVS deter-
mined that both babies were equally healthy.
Now as she examined the ultrasound, she al;ked
whether gender mattered to us. "\\'10'11, we have a
boy at home, so I guess we'd prefer a I said,
realizing with a start that since she gave us a
choice, I must be carryi ng a boy and a girl, and
I'd just chosen to terminale a boy. I had a vision
of what our son's brother might have looked
like-the same dimples, slender back, and full
lips. J felt a rush of nausea, as in was eliminating
a bit of him, too-or at leallt his DNA.
What I cou ldn't foresee, lying there on the
table, Wal; how guilty I'd feel watching my son
slruggle with having to share his mother with
only one sibling: the girl I'd give birth to seven
months later. Nor could I anticipate the numher
of times that I'd think to myself- al; I stumbled
out of bed to breast-feed in the middle of the
night, or yelled to my son as he threw a
ball too close to the baby, or harangued my hus-
band with the tally ofhfM many diapers each of
us had changed- thank God we didn't have
twins. We'd made the right decision, for us.
The doctor spoke quietly to the ultrasound
technician, instructing her to shift the wand this
way and that. "I'm inserting the needle now," she
said. "You'll feel a My husband moved to
the head of the hed, just al; he had during our
son'sbirth. I stared upathim ashec10sed his eyes
and his lips started to move in silent prayer.
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movie to know what I mean. It's what's interest-
ing to me as well about Edie Falco's character in
the series NUr$tjackit. Nice husband, squirrelly
lover, but NurseJackie draws an emphatic line.
Then she snorts it.
I crossed the line at least once, while meeting
a former lover for a drink. We'd had a brief
affair years before, when he was married and I
wasn't, and ran into each other by chance. The
att ract ion Wal; still there, but now the playi ng
fi eld was interest ingly leveled. We were both
flirtat ious and provocative. I didn't plan to
sleep with him, but I enjoyed toying with the
possibility, enjoyed watching him toy with it,
and it was a rush 10 feel his desi re for me. He'd
never met my husband, and though the few
things I said about him during that flirtatious
drink were pretty innocent, this encounter
seems dodgierto me. I used my husband as con
versational bait while pondering whether I'd
sleep with another man.
I fee! as squeamish as a nyone about viol ati ng
(or seeming to have violated) that sacrosanct
thing: the special intimacy of one's marriage.
But I have problems wilh the formulat ion that
says verbal intimacy is as heinous as sexual infi
delity. What's left to get us through the day,
fol ks? Are married women so untr ustworthy
that they must take special care not to respond
to the sympathetic ga1.e of a seemingly kindred
spirit? Can we not be trusted to draw our own
lines? Let'sall wear burkas, in that case. Because
we're all as capable of breaking trust as we are
capable of being fooled into seeing trust where
none, in fact,exists.
Marriage isn't just an institution. It's flesh
and-blood couples, each unit al; vast and com-
plex as the universe, each tiny world ullerly
unique, and even our best friends, the ones able
to listen carefully and answer their e-mail at the
same time, can never know the real story about
our marriage, hard as we try to tell it. It's the
unintent ional revelations that, for one fleeting
moment, part the curtains of marriage- the
way he criticizes her in public, the look they
exchanged that time they left the restaurant in
such a hurry. We share knowing looks with our
own mate, temporarily buoyed by the fleeting
(and probably fraudulent) feeling that com
pared with {Mm, we're just fine.
Something different happens when you
knowingly take that small step away from your
marriage, shape it into a narrative, follow the
conversat ional crumbs, verge onto the side
roads only to abandon them moments later, in
conversat ion utterly spontaneous yet arranged
just so for that sympathetic listener: the friend
who sits face-to-face with you and tries to resist
looking at her watch- even though her
now and then clearly strays to the cute waiter
across the room-the one who will remember
every single word you've said three months
from now even as you say it all again, talking to
your friend as if 10 yourself, urgently or not,
opening your heart. And maybe the story you
tell, which happens to be the story you're in,
will have something dazzling or surprising or
even lifesaving to tell you, if you're engaged in
the words and telling it true. The telling lifts the
veil from no one's eyes but your own. And just
possibly, if you break and enter the marital
cocoon skillfully enough, when you return
home to your husband, you might even see him
again al; iffor the fi rst time.
In his book Pursuits of Happinm: The HoIf)' -
wood Comedy (ljRrmarriagr, Stanley Cavell, Har-
vard's Waller M. CabOl professor emeritus of
aesthetics and the general theory of value, exam-
ines seven classic romantic comedies that were
made between and 1949, including 1/ Hap-
jxnrd Ont Night, Adam's Rib, The Philadflphia
Story, and ThtAwfol Truth. Cavell finds modeisof
ideal marriage by listening to the river of words
between these celluloid couples: Claudette Col -
bert and Clark Cable, Spencer Tracy and Kath-
arine Hepburn, among others. The famous
costars bicker and spar. They're chattering love-
birds iU< well as bantering playmates and power-
ful adversaries. As an audience, we fall in love
wilh them over and over agai n, as they do with
each other. The reason, Cavell concludes, is that
each couple is constantly recoupling. A mar
riage between freel> chosen equals (as these
pairs decidedly are) demands that couples con
stantly remarry. They duke it oUI verbally, each
individual standing his or her ground, whether
that ground is on the opposite sides of a blanket
strung between two beds, in a courtroom, or in
the pool house of a Main Line mansion. Their
marital conversation makes the movement of
love audible. If the words stop, Cavell says, so
does the marriage.
Of course, the conversation does stop. It
falls into a quiet murmur or gutters out in the
glow of cozy complacency or can't be heard over
the mutual barking of accusations or festers
silently in a stalemate of hostility and hurt.
When the conversation of marriage ceases in
these old films, the characters always seem to go
to Connecticut. Connecticut is the real -life
equivalent of having lunch with your best friend
and complaining about )"our marriage. When a
woman invites others into the private sphere of
her marriage, she acts as a free agent, as a single
person. The instability thai results, Cavell says,
is what lead3 the man and woman back to mar-
riage. If a couple is smart and lucky, and if the
invasion of privacy is a single step back and not a
prelude to nuclear winter (full bore adultery,
say), thejoo familiar mate can again look like the
stranger he was in courlship. And the conversa
tion of marriage can begin anew.
What evil might be unleashed in me if my hus
band were as verbally unfaithful about the two of
us as J sometimes am? How might his freeagent
behavior affect our marriage? I admit it makes
mea tad uncomfortable imaginingi\. But maybe
a little more destabilization could be a good
lhing. Maybe counti ngon his distaste for gossip
makes me too comfortable. By not staking his in
dependence from me that way, maybe he and
our marriage arc losing out.
"What are you working my 'm,b,"'.
asks me.
"An essay about privacy in
say, waiting for the irony of this to registeron
face. My husband is not a stranger to irony. Also,
he is aware that for me, as for many wr iters, pri
vate life is my material. What are the (hances
that J writing about my marriage?
I hope you're not writing anything
about he says.
"Don't be I say, as he heads off to Ihe
kit(llen to make a sandwich. I sound like one of
those movie heroines cheerfully denying the
newness ofthe expensive hat 011 her head to Cary
Grant (th is old thing?) and go back to the work of
trying to find the courage and the craft to
figure out t he awful truth of this subjed.
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VI Reo
(Aug 23-Sept 22)
With all the crosscurrents in the
heavens Ihis month, take things
slow until the planets move OUi
of difficult positions. For the
first three weeks, reassess and
regroup. Your ruler, Mercury,
will be retrograde from the
20lh until September 12th,
blitlbo1ng confusion and delay.
Look for respite when the Sun
enters Virgo on the 23rd-lhe
onset of your birthday year.
You seem preoccupied with
financial details thal need
settling, but , again, take your
El lE 24-1 w w"" .1 1 . <o m
You face many challenges this month as the planets
move into disagreeable positions. But find sweet
spots where you can-they're there. By Susan Miller
(July 23-Aug 22)
The new moon in Leo on the 10th, gift wrapped from
act ion planet Mars. has you f ill ed with energy, so
star t laying the groundwork for an exci ting proJect.
You'l l want to travel this month. but wi th intense work
obligati ons, trips may need to be put on hold. The
weekends of the 7t h and 14th are particularly trying
times for travel, and, unfortunately, romance, owing to
a ti ff between Venus and Uranus. Plan a holiday over
the 28th and 29th, when the moon wil l conjunct good-
fortune Jupiter in fellow fi re si gn Aries. PromiSing
financial news will come wi thin four days of the
24th, when Pluto aligns with the Sun. your guardian
planet. You'll be heavi ly protected, and someone
extremely powerful could come to your aid, so use
these dates for key meetings, especiall y in regard to
career- and famil y-related goals. But make no final
commit ments until mid-September, when Mercury, out
of phase since August 20th, resumes regular or bit.
time. Money will come to
you, which, thankfully, might
make up for any laq,'e sums
you owe. At the full moon on
the 24th, you'll see the value
of trusting in someone close.
You could make things official
in a romantic relationship or
form a strong business alliance.
In either case, with Neptune
w close to this full moon, you
may be swept orr your feet in a
way you've rarely been before.
LI BRA
(Sept 23-0ct 22)
With Saturn back in Libra,
you' re facing a busy schedule,
but that's only Satum helping
you value your time and
increase productivity. After
the new moon on the 10th,
look to loyal friends for advice,
help, and fateful introductions.
Mars and Venus in Libra will
make you very attractive.
For those already attached,
generous Jupiter and surprise-
all-the-time Uranus, both in
your partnerships sector, will
bring plenty of good fortune.
Mars in Venus will also help
you begin a life-changing two-
year cycle, during which the
actions you take will have the
power to transform you. Any
ideas you have brewing, both
professional and personal,
are now ripe for presentation.
There is one catch-Mercury
will be retrobrrade starting
on the 20th until September
12th, so during this time, you
should keep planning but
hold off on initialing action.
SCORrJO
(Oct 23-Nov 21)
On or around the new moon
in Leo on the 10th, watch
for conversation concerning
your career-you may get
an offer worth investigating.
Neptune's prominence will
make a strong impression but
also possibly cause confUSion,
w make no assumpt ions
during discussions. Alw, with
many planets in disagreeable
positions, coworkers will be
hard to deal with, so protect
yourself. In romance, the
full moon on the 24th will
highlight the love lives of all
Scorpios-whether Single,
dating, or firmly attached-
and Neptune will cozy up,
making any tender episodes
particularly quixotic. The
sun will be in Virgo starti ng
on the 23rd, boosting your
social life in the coming four
weeks, and, with retrograde
Mercury in your friendship
sector from the 20th unlit
September 12th, you'll be
able to reconnect with many
old pals. Doing so will be
easy, fun, and rejuvenating.
SA (;] '1''/11 Jl I LS
(Nov Z2-Dec 21)
This month will have all
the things you adore: travel ,
romance, time at home and
with frie nds. Mercury will
retrograde from the 20th
to September 12th in your
career sector, so you won't
miss much if you duck out
of town. You'll feel the
slowdown of everyday events
a ~ early a ~ the 6th, as people
become indecisive or out of
reach. Take the time now to proper decision. Do yourself change in many areas of your mood. Still, taskmaster Saturn
decompress before things pick a favor and slow down- life, including your career. will be in close proximi ty,
up this autumn. Neptune will there's no need to rush. If It 's the perfect time to find a possibly spoiling the momem.
make any trips reneclive and your partnership is business- new challenge. After a solar Unpredictable Uranus will
reenergizing, but, as a planet based, you can make plans eclipse in July, relationships of also be around, leading to
also of forgetfulness, it could to work well to!,'Cther, but every description-at home, confrontation. Be cheerful
cause some confusion. Check with Mercury starting to in love, and at work-wi ll be though, as the second half of
and recheck your todo lists. retrograde from the 20th to rocky. People will be on edge the momh will be far easier.
Your home situation will need September 12th, you'll find and cooperation scarce, but 1 !fyou need to get away, the
attention at the full moon on many areas that need to be Jupiter in Aries until the 9th is new moon on the 10th will
the 24th, with the matter at discussed. Still, delays will protecting all of your interests. allow you to find a perfect
hand possibly being simple benefit you, so don't buck this Though a romantic new moon location. With the early effect
(getting new furniture?) or trend-embrace it. While on the 10th could bring happy of Mercury going retrograde
monumental (buying or romance may see a rocky start moments, Venus in Libra and on the 20th until September
selling a house?). Keep in on the 7th as Uranus, your opposed to unpredictable 12th, nothing pressing will
mind it's not a good idea to ru ler, opposes Venus, things Uranus could make partners be going on at home, so
make any big moves while will begin to sweeten on the combative. Mercury will be you can safely retreat. But
Mercury is in retrograde. 20th, when Venus and Mars retrograde from the 20th to be back by the 24th, as the
CA PRICOR V
set off a display of romantic September 12th, so watch for full moon will enliven your
fireworks. Be ready for more miscommunications. The full career. Neptune will also be
(Dec 22-Jan 19) when the moon enters try moon on the 24th will bring a close to this full moon, so
Financial negotiations and anythi ng" Aries on the 28th. welcome calm and, thanks to if you're in a creative fiel d,
appropriations are first on
PISCES
the Sun and Pluto in sparkling you' ll show the full range
your list this month, with a conversation on the 26th, of your talents. Also close
new moon on the 10th that (Feb 19-Mar 20) the ideal moment for those by: Pluto. Expect some very
won't help as much as you With expenses high this unattached to meet someone. pl easing financial rewards.
might expect. Neptune wil l mont h, pay more attention
be in opposition, so facts will to cash now. J upiter is st ill TAURUS CANCER
be obscured. Postpone all in your house of money, so (Apr 10-May 10) (June 22-July 22)
decisions unti l next month, plenty may come in, but August starts fast, with your Lucky J upiter and surprise-
when you' ll have more clarity. plenty might go out. !fyou workaday sector brimming a-minute Uranus are in your
Saturn is back in your career find a pot of gold, hoard it with energy. Thi ngs won't tenth house offame and
reputation sector, urging you for as long as you can. J ust always go as planned due to honors, inspi ring career offers
to reinvent yourself. Don't after the new moon on the the planets' disruptive mood, you've only dreamed about.
turn your life inside out (i.e., 10th, interesting and lucrative but you'll power through for Use this for momentum as you
change careers), but expand assignments will come your success. The new moon on start your mission for more
your efforts for a more senior way. Neptune will help the 10th will help you build money, an endeavor that will
position, simply because it's inspire your most creative a blueprint for changes at benefit from the new moon on
time. Let Mars in your work and effective ideas. Mercury, home. If searching for real the 10th. Still, with Neptune
sector-and Venus close ruling your relationships, will estate, you may find exactly in opposition, remember
by-lend a hand. Mercury retrograde from the 20th until what you've been looking to stay reali stic with your
will retrograde from the 20th September 12th, so you may for. On a much smaller scale, demands and expectations.
until September 12th, so go back to an old problem reducing cluller or updating While your career buoys, your
don't enter into anything new that was never settled but a space will bring comfort. home situation is weighing on
during this phase. With this now has a workable solution. Mars is firing your physical- you. You may be temporarily
planet in Taurus, you may You may also change your activity sector, so any and all struggling with home-related
also have a change of mind mind about a present love or effort you put in at the gym costs or family obligations.
concerning a relationship. reconci le with someone from will bring rapid results. Also, Prepare for your toughest
In such a heclic month, use your past. Mercury wants with Mars in Libra, the sign days near the weekends of
the full moon on the 24th as you to be more renective, of partnership, ask a friend or the 6th and the 13th. More
an excuse for a getaway that so use this time to repair, partner to join you for helpful complications arise by the
could be rather enchanting. restart, or rejuvenate a support. An outstanding and dictates of a partner or go
partnership. The full moon romantic social event will be between who won't agree
AQUARi US in Pisces on the 24th will yours to cherish on or around with you on anything.
(Jan 10-Feb 18) bring romantic and affirming the full moon on the 24th. Everything may seem li ke
It 's time to decide what to moments just in time. Neptune close by will make a battle, but after the Sun
do about a close relationship
ARIES
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at the new moon on the 20th, you'll find navigating
10th. Neptune's presence (Mar 11-Apr 19) GElIiNi this relationship-and life
and penchant for churning August gets off to a stormy (May 21-June 21) in general-a lot easier.
out a profusion of fog- start, first at work near the With Venus and Mars now in
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