Someday, I feared, I'd simply run into her, the woman who'd ripped out and Irish-riverdanced upon my young heart. Lisa (let's call her) was the initiator of the breakup that irreversibly changed the course of my romantic life, the cataclysmic heartbreak that doused frigid water on my twentysomething aspirations of true love.
Of course, Read MoreHowie Appelbaum is a superhero of sorts. Most weekdays, he puts on his uniform-a pair of faded jeans, ratty white sneakers and his favorite brown leather jacket. He glides his shiny silver Infinity S.U.V. from Summit, N.J., across the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan. Here, he is like 10 milligrams of Valium for anxious first-time Read More
Not long ago, Stephan Paternot, former C.E.O. of the tremendous dot-com failure known as theglobe.com, decided he'd make a pretty great movie star and relocated to Los Angeles for a couple of months. Early one afternoon, on his way from his Beverly Hills sublet to the Warner Brothers studios, he took a deep breath and Read More
