In Virgin, Hanne Blank reminds us that the idea of virginity exists for no other animal species. And what would our world be like if for us, too, the idea simply did not exist? No Donna Martin, struggling to keep her legs firmly shut through seven seasons of 90210. Steve Carell might still be on Read More
It was a hot July day, and I was lazily sipping iced coffee when I picked up the phone to hear my mother fighting back tears. Her moment had come. She’d gotten jury duty. When my mom—a law-abiding, Annie Hall–turns-savvy-business-woman type—was chosen to be on the jury for the recent John Gotti Jr. case, my Read More
It was a hot July day, and I was lazily sipping iced coffee when I picked up the phone to hear my mother fighting back tears. Her moment had come. She’d gotten jury duty.
When my mom—a law-abiding, Annie Hall–turns-savvy-business-woman type—was chosen to be on the jury for the recent John Gotti Jr. case, my Read MoreMichelle Cutler and Peter Loureiro
Met: September 1998 Engaged: Jan. 3, 2004 Projected Wedding Date: June 21, 2006 Peter Loureiro, an actor who has built a career on his eerie resemblance to Christopher Walken (he has a one-man play called Citizen Walken and re-creates Annie Hall's creepy brother Duane in the long-running Off Broadway show Who Read MoreStephanie Foster and Paul Virtue
Met: 1985 Engaged: Dec. 13, 2003 Projected Wedding Date: May 9, 2004 Let's get physical … in perpetuity! Paul Virtue, 40, a personal trainer, plans to marry Stephanie Foster, 42, a yoga and acting teacher, in an intimate ceremony on the island of Maui. The aptly named Mr. Virtue has soulful Read MoreJennifer Cohen and Michael Oko
Met: Summer 1984 Engaged: July 20, 2003 Projected Wedding Date: June 5, 2004 Jennifer Cohen and Michael Oko grew up living parallel lives on the Upper West Side as the comely brown-haired, prominent-nosed, thin-lipped children of Jewish intellectuals. His family lived on 101st Street; hers on 100th. Both had an older Read MoreMichael Klarman and Katy O'Connor
Met: June 2000 Engaged: Oct. 11, 2003 Projected Wedding Date: Oct. 24, 2004 At Bentley College in Massachusetts (the alma mater of New York Times food fairy Amanda Hesser), Katy O'Connor thought that swarthy Michael Klarman was a mysterious Latino. "He hung out with a bunch of international people and everyone Read MoreMatt Dojny and Sybil Young
Met: 1974 Engaged: Nov. 8, 2003 Projected Wedding Date: June 12, 2004 We've heard of "till death do us part," but this is ridiculous! Sybil Young, 30, and Matt Dojny, 32, are holding their wedding ceremony at Green-Wood Cemetery, near the tombstones of Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed and Jean Michel Basquiat, Read MoreLara Kristin (Kris) Herndon and Ralph Lentini
Met: Fall 2003 Engaged: Feb. 7, 2004 Projected Wedding Date: Spring 2004 "I never, ever thought I'd get married. Ever," said Kris Herndon, an ivory-skinned, raven-haired Atlanta-born belle, over a stiff Maker's Mark and water at Donohue's pub. "The idea of it freaked me out." For a while, Read MoreDavid E. Cohen and Keiko Niccolini
Met: July 2000 Engaged: Dec. 25, 2001 Projected Wedding Date: March 12, 2004 Keiko Niccolini, 27, daughter of dashing Four Seasons co-owner and Page Six habitué Julian Niccolini, is marrying David Cohen, 29, a chef and food consultant who graduated from Cornell and Le Cordon Bleu. They live in Los Read MoreMatt Heindl and Breck Hostetter
Met: October 2000 Engaged: July 1, 2003 Projected Wedding Date: July 10, 2004 "It's the land of the hot art chicks!" proclaimed Matt Heindl as he surveyed Thread Waxing Space, an art-exhibition studio and performance venue in Soho. He decided to book it for the launch party of AllTrue.com, the Jackass Read MoreJoshua Mason and Anique Olivier
Met: August 1998 Engaged: Spring 2003 Projected Wedding Date: Sept. 5, 2004 Liberal arts and private parts …. Josh Mason and Anique Olivier, both 23, met the very first day of their freshman year at Oberlin College. "I'd just ushered my parents off and was immediately struck by how beautiful Anique Read MoreSteven Harkins and Wendy Kaufman
Met: September 1976 Engaged: Aug. 29, 2003 Projected Wedding Date: May 22, 2004 The Snapple Lady's getting hitched- hic! Wendy Kaufman, the bubbly, lovably zaftig star of those famous mid-1990's television commercials for Snapple drinks, is marrying Steven Harkins, director of marketing at Tube Technologies, a broom-handle and shelving company helmed Read MoreFara Kaplan and Michael Saracino
Met: October 1995 Engaged: Jan. 23, 2003 Projected Wedding Date: Feb. 21, 2004 Bronzed beloveds! Fara Kaplan, 28, and Michael Saracino, 34, met at a tanning salon on Long Island and have maintained a healthy glow ever since. Now they're planning to grow wrinkled together. Ms. Kaplan was working at Ultra Read MoreDebra Richman and Jeffrey Selden
Met: September 2002 Engaged: Aug. 28, 2003 Projected Wedding Date: Feb. 14, 2004 Jeffrey Selden, 34, director of catering at the New York Palace, plans to marry Debra Richman, 38, the deputy P.R. director of Time magazine, at the hotel. They were fixed up after a fateful Rosh Hashana shared by Read More
