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sexual revolution
Shapiro, Walter
Shepard, Sam
Shiksa Goddess (Wasserstein)
Shubert Organization
Silverstein, Michele K.
Simon, John
Simon, Neil
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (Durang)
Sisters Rosensweig, The (Wasserstein)
Lincoln Center production of
Seattle Rep workshop of
unproduced TV pilot of
sixties
Slate
Sloth (Wasserstein)
Smith College
Smolianinoff, André Bishop
“Solid Gold Blender, A” (Wasserstein; unpublished)
Sondheim, Stephen
Soros, Daisy
Soros, George
Soros, Peter
“Sorrows of Gin, The” (Cheever)
WW’s TV script of
Spyri, Johanna
Stasio, Marilyn
Steele, Nancy
Stein, Howard
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Stewart, Abigail J.
as feminist
WW’s relationship with
Sticks and Bones (Rabe)
Stone, Oliver
Streep, Meryl
Strong, Jeremy
Suicide and Other Diversions (Durang)
Sullivan, Daniel
Sunday in the Park with George (Sondheim and Lapine)
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Sussman, Bruce
Swee, Daniel
Table Settings (Lapine)
Tally, Ted
tashlich
Taxi Driver (film)
T-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Teachout, Terry
Tender Offer (Wasserstein)
Testa, Mary
Texaco Inc.
Theater in America (PBS series)
Theater J
Theatre Development Fund, Open Doors program of
Third (Wasserstein)
Thirteen/WNET
Three Sisters (Chekhov)
Thurman, Judith
Time
Timmermann, Bonnie
Titanic (Durang)
Tolan, Cindy
Tony awards
Total Woman, The (Morgan)
Trento, Angela
Tribeca Film Festival
Trillin, Calvin
Truman, David B.
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The (Finn and Sheinkin)
Uncommon Women and Others (Wasserstein)
O’Neill workshop of
PBS broadcast of
Phoenix Theatre production of
Playwrights Horizons workshop of
published edition of
Yale workshop of
Variety
Vienna Waltzes (ballet)
Vietnamization of New Jersey, The (Durang)
Vietnam War
Village Voice
Vogue
von Mayrhauser, Jennifer
Wall Street (film)
Wall Street Journal
Walsh, James
Warshaw, Carole
Washington Post
Washington Times
Wasserstein, Abner:
as adult
childhood of
Georgette’s reunion with
mental illness of
parents’ visits to
secrecy surrounding
WW and
Wasserstein, Alan
Wasserstein, Ben Churchill
Wasserstein, Bruce
ambition and competitiveness of
childhood and adolescence of
college and graduate studies of
Cranberry Dune estate of
at Cravath, Swaine
death of
investment banking career of
loyalty of
Lucy Jane and
Mark Green’s collaboration with
marriage of Christine to
marriage of Claude Becker to
marriage of Lynne to
as one of Nader’s Raiders
poor eyesight of
rebelliousness of
secrecy of
weight problems of
WW’s relationship with
Wasserstein, Charlotte
Wasserstein, Christine Parrott
Wasserstein, Claude Becker
Wasserstein, Dash Philippe
Wasserstein, Florence
Wasserstein, George:
childhood of
death of
marriage of Lola to
Wasserstein, Georgette, see Levis, Georgette Wasserstein
Wasserstein, Israel “Herman,”
Wasserstein, Jack Dumas
Wasserstein, Jacob
Wasserstein, Joseph
Wasserstein, Lola Schleifer
childhood of
code of silence of
courtship and marriage of George and
dance obsession of
death of
empathy lacking in
family history inflated by
as grandmother
and Lucy Jane’s birth
marriage of Morris and
as nonconformist
nutritional ideas of
pushiness of
as quintessential Jewish mother
and Sandra’s death
WW criticized by
and WW’s illness and death
Wasserstein, Lucy Jane
birth of
with Bruce and Claude
and WW’s death
Wasserstein, Lynne Killin
marriage of Bruce and
WW’s relationship with
Wasserstein, Morris
as avid news reader
childhood of
deafness of
decline and death of
family loved unconditionally by
Jaguar owned by
marriage of Lola and
memorial service for
Wasserstein, Pamela
Wasserstein, Perella & Co.
Wasserstein, Sandra, see Meyer, Sandra Wasserstein
Wasserstein, Scoop
Wasserstein, Teddy
Wasserstein, Wendy
Abner and
ambition and competitiveness of
in Amherst exchange program
apartment search of
as Baby Boomer
Bell’s palsy of
birth of
Bishop’s relationship with
Bruce’s relationship with
at Calhoun
cancer of
cat adopted by
celebrity status of
Central Park West apartment of
childhood and adolescence of
as choreographer
at City College
dance classes of
Dartmouth fellowship of
death of
deliberate unattractiveness of
diaries of
Durang’s relationship with
empathy and warmth of
as essayist
at Ethical Culture
film and TV scripts of
Garn’s birthday party for
Guggenheim grant won by
Gutierrez’s relationship with
humor and nonchalance as mask for
“husbands” of
income of
Kaplan’s relationship with
Karl’s correspondence with
law school applications of
Lola’s criticisms of
in London
Long’s relationship with
loyalty as important to
and Lucy Jane’s birth
McCarthy campaign and
at MacDowell Colony
McNally’s relationship with
marriages contemplated by
memorial service for
at Mount Holyoke
as networker
neurological symptoms of
One Fifth Avenue apartment of
at O’Neill Theatre Center
Open Doors program and
“Orphans’ Christmases” of
personal life as source for writings of
Playwrights Horizons and
Polish trip of
pregnancy fears of
pregnancy of
Pulitzer Prize of
in quest to have a child
as quintessential New Yorker
rebelliousness of
in relationships with inaccessible men
Rich’s relationship with
in Rome
and Sandra’s death
Sandra’s relationship with
in Seattle
self-centeredness of
self-doubt of
sex life of
in Smith playwriting class
socializing by
speaking engagements of
superior/inferior paradox of
Tony award of
weight problems of
work habits of
World Youth Forum trip of
at Yale Drama School
at Yeshiva of Flatbush
Wasserstein Brothers
Wasserstein family:
in Brooklyn
emigration to America by
as high achievers
Miami Beach vacations of
secrets kept in
Upper East Side apartment of
at WW’s productions
Wasserstein Ivey Long Productions
Watergate scandal
Watts, Heather
Weaver, Sigourney
Weinstein, Harvey
Weitzman, Ira
Welcome to My Rash (Wasserstein)
Wesleyan University
West Wing, The (TV show)
When Dinah Shore Ruled the Earth (Durang and Wasserstein)
White, George C.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Albee)
Wicked Cooks, The (Grass)
Wiest, Dianne
William Morris agency
Wilson, Victoria
Winer, Linda
Wintour, Anna
Witchel, Alex
With Justice for Some (Green and B. Wasserstein, eds.)
Wloclawek, Poland
WNET
Wolfe, Tom
women, changing role of
see also feminist movement
“Women Beware Women” (Wasserstein)
Women’s Wear Daily
World Almanac and Book of Facts, The
World War II,
World We Want, The (TV program)
World Youth Forum
Wouk, Herman
Wright, Susan
Yale Club Library
Yale Drama School
Yale Repertory Theatre
Yale University
Yeshivah of Flatbush
Yglesias, Rafael
Yom Kippur
Young Frankenstein (film)
Zaks, Jerry
Zionism
Zippel, David
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julie Salamon is the author of Hospital, about the inner workings of a big city hospital, as well as the New York Times bestseller The Christmas Tree; the true-crime narrative Facing the Wind; the novel White Lies; the film classic The Devil’s Candy; a family memoir, The Net of Dreams; and Rambam’s Ladder. Previously a reporter and critic with the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, she has also written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and the New Republic.
ALSO BY JULIE SALAMON
Hospital
Rambam’s Ladder
The Christmas Tree
Facing the Wind
The Net of Dreams
The Devil’s Candy
White Lies
1
This version came from Anne Betteridge, a Mount Holyoke friend who became the model for Leilah, the shy anthropologist in Uncommon Women.
2
She told this story to Christopher Durang, the playwright, when they met at Yale Drama School.
3
This is almost verbatim the story told by Michael Feingold, chief theater critic for the Village Voice, after Wendy died.
4
Or Disney fication, depending on your perspective; Disney, Viacom, and other large companies eventually became the backbone of the commercial development that gave new life to the area’s theaters while altering its character, with the growth of generic “theme” stores that are not connected to New York culture.
5
Nine years later she became famous as Ann Kelsey, a lawyer on NBC’s L.A. Law, a series that dealt with the social issues of the day, including abortion, late-in-life pregnancy, gay rights, and the like.
6
Called “Husbands,” the story (which appeared in the October 22, 1979, edition) is about a group of twenty-two husbands who live together after separating from their wives. The wives begin dating and taking classes while the husbands despair and sit around moping and reading Madame Bovary, trying to understand their wives’ psychology.
7
The British-American actor was known as collaborator with the great Orson Welles but in 1973 became more famous as the demanding law professor in The Paper Chase, a popular movie about the tribulations of first-year students at Harvard Law.
8
After she and Ed Kleban finally broke up, they remained friends. After he died in 1987 at age forty-eight, of cancer of the mouth, Wendy spoke at his memorial service and then served on the board of the Kleban Foundation, which the lyricist established to give an annual hundred-thousand-dollar award to promising songwriters.
9
He was a first-year associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, one of New York’s leading corporate law firms when he met Joseph Perella, the sole operator in the new mergers and acquisitions department at First Boston Corporation, a prominent investment bank. Perella was so impressed by the smart, blunt young man that a year later, 1977, he hired Bruce, doubling his salary to the then-enormous sum of a hundred thousand dollars a year and changing the course of his career.
10
Walter and Lucie Rosen began entertaining their friends with musical evenings when the house was completed in 1939. After their only son died flying over Germany in World War II, they decided in 1946 to establish Caramoor as a performing-arts center; which it remains today.
11
The two had met in the late 1970s, when Gutierrez had directed Evans in A Life in the Theatre by David Mamet, and then they’d worked together during the Playwrights Horizons production of Geniuses in 1982.
12
The article was based on a study by a Yale sociologist. On November 11, 1989, the New York Times reported, “Marriage Study That Caused Furor Is Revised.” As usual, the correction came late and received far less notice.
13
Wendy mentioned the shoes in Isn’t It Romantic; Morton Hack, certified pedorthist, son of the ripple-sole inventor, Nathan Hack, wrote her a thank-you note.
14
He won for Best Music and Lyrics and shared the Tony for Best Book with James Lapine.
15
In 1998 Kakutani won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
16
In “How I Spent My Forties,” an essay that appears in Shiksa Goddess.
17
This not-for-profit organization is aimed at making theater accessible to people who can’t afford it, TDF is in charge of the city’s half-price TKTS booths as well as programs to develop new audiences.
18
Lucy Jane was a name Wendy liked. In The Object of My Affection, when Nina asks George, the gay best friend she loves, who was his first sexual partner, he surprises her by saying Lucy Jane, his high-school girlfriend. Wendy told both Jane Rosenthal and Mary Jane Patrone that the Jane part was for them.
19
Joseph Heller, her mentor, was struck by this disease in 1981 and subsequently wrote about it in a m
emoir called No Laughing Matter.
20
Wendy’s work laid the groundwork for the popular television series about four single career women living in New York, which ran between 1998 and 2004. Coincidentally, Sarah Jessica Parker, who played the main character in Sex and the City, had small parts in The Heidi Chronicles.