How could you have done that? recalls a managing director. When I reached Catherine McCarron, she told me that the hospital had moved quickly because Lucy had become anemic. WebAmerican playwright. Agent For the people who knew him well he engendered enormous loyalty., Jeffrey Rosen, another longtime friend of Wassersteins and his colleague at First Boston, Wasserstein Perella & Co., and Lazard, agrees. Its wonderful having my daughter home, but the other one being here is very hard. (In December, I learned that the twin in the N.I.C.U.had not survived.). Unfortunately, instead of making my hair straight, the hairdresser decided to express herself through my natural curls. Congratulations! How One Mothers Love for Her Gay Son Started a Revolution. The first thing I noticed about my daughter was that she has shoulders like Audrey Hepburns when she wears that white strapless Cecil Beaton number in My Fair Lady. She was also wearing a Whats My Line eye mask. ), And this is the same Bruce Wasserstein who deprived the state and city of New York of some $75 million in capital-gains taxes (12 percent of his capital gain of around $625 million) when he claimed to have moved his residence to London in 2001, after he had sold Wasserstein Perella to Dresdner Bank, and then Allianz, the giant German insurer, bought Dresdner. This was to shield her eyes from the bright lights that were installed to correct her high bilirubin levels, which had caused jaundice. As far as I can make out, relaxing and lying on your left side is the treatment for preclampsia. When he came to see me, he said, You should know that babies born after only twenty-five weeks gestation are at a higher risk for having lung or brain damage than those born even at thirty weeks. She had seen a lot of things in the N.I.C.U., but she wasnt accustomed to bellowing Cuban men in feathers. Shayna had achieved that goal; Lucy was still working on it. I went home, got into bed, and cried. As I rocked her, I whispered to her, We are so lucky!. Im O.K., and Ive given up on that other thing., Thats why I came over, he said, his voice cheerful and, as always, a little too quick. I looked up at the screen and saw a tiny hand waving at me, as if to say, Hold on, Mom. chosen by an independent board of directors. Im coming!. Two other Wasserstein menAshish Bhutani, the head of Lazards asset management, and Gary Parr, who came to Lazard via Morgan Stanleyare sticking around. Almost every Christmas Day for twenty years, I had eaten Christmas lunch with Fay and her son Andr Bishop, who is the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theatre and one of my oldest friends, at the Colony Club. that night, though, I wished that all the ridiculous myths were true: if a man in a suit could make this easier, I thought, I would happily return to Temple Emanu-El for emergency Yom Kippur nuptials. Many published reports suggested that Wasserstein was the architect of Krafts strategy and that he personally advised Kraft and its C.E.O., Irene Rosenfeld, during the months before he died. Wasserstein, an 'uncommon woman Well monitor you and probably send you home tomorrow.. THE BOOK SHELF: A Biography of Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, She was born a month before Lucy and now weighed approximately three pounds. Hes fine, Golub replied. Seeing himself as the Nietzschean bermensch, he believed he played by different rules than everyone else. It was a surreal cross between PBSs Nature and the Food Channel. Although Im a big, hearty girl, even in routine circumstances I could be voted Miss White Coat Syndrome. Before I returned to the N.I.C.U. Look, I hope its just for the night, she said. Dont be nervous. A concierge at the Parker Meridien hotel stopped me to say, I think your having that baby is just great! Suddenly, I felt as if I were in a millennial version of Its a Wonderful Life. Hester Prynne had become the most popular girl in town. I reached for a magazine and came upon a detailed account of Cindy Crawfords pregnancy: Cindy is over the moon about her baby. Although I remain a religious skeptic (St. James and Temple Emanu-El notwithstanding), throughout my days of awe at the Klingenstein Pavilion I had a kind of blind faith. On February 19 it sold another 1.8 million or so shares for $66.3 million, and on March 16 Lazard filed a registration statement for the estate to sell another 7.6 million or so shares, worth around $282 million. Rob Phillips. Why is your proposal for Mars different from anybody elses? Its higher now! She seemed to be irritated with me. And why, of course, Slovakia needed a banker like Bruce to steer it forward. I got up at 5 a.m. on August 27th to write Fay Franciss eulogy. No one sleeps in hospitals. It was their most public meeting since Perella had left, in 1993. My friend Gerald Gutierrez, the Broadway director, pulled back the curtain. As I was absorbing my new schedule, a nurse came in and told me to clean up my room because I was expected to be out by 11 a.m. For the first time, I didnt care about being voted Miss Mount Sinai Congeniality. '', Ms. Wasserstein has always been big on ''to do'' lists. She had another sonogram, and the ventricles are still enlarged.. Lying on her side, she had a C-pap (continuous positive airway pressure) tube in one nostril, to keep her lungs inflated. It is a fact that he moved to London. The baby was whisked away to the hospitals N. I. C. U. (I learned a few weeks later that his group had been accepted to advise on missions to outer space. The Best Supporting Actor award, we decided, went to Dr. The day after I delivered, the news that I had had a baby flashed through the theatre community. Finally, a bout with a rare form of lymphoma As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. She gave me soothing sponge baths, too.