January 2011
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Farewell, Fran
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My former Improv coworker Fran Cowan died today at 96. During my six months working for Budd Friedman, she was as strong a force as they make ‘em. Nobody ever wore leather pants and leopard print jackets better than her, nor was there ever a more fiercely loyal employee. She invented the term gate keeper. She was a thirty year assistant, mother, wife, grandmother, and legend in the...
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One of the best writers I know, recently married... →
“When I was 14 I found a worksheet in my mother’s jewelry drawer that said, ‘The three most important qualities I look for in a partner are:’ with a list of choices underneath. She had circled ‘fidelity’ and ‘trust.’ At the time this seemed to me a great failure of imagination, as if each of us were a desert island to which our stranded partners could...
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