I long ago memorized "Can This Be Love?" To Lola, self-pity or perhaps introspection was not to be tolerated. Wendy was grappling with these issues, in her work and in her private life. Wendy was trying to have it both ways. He hadnt anticipated his death but hed seen the band in the film To Live and Let Die. At one point, Weber reports, her father left their Forest Hills (NY) house and disappeared for 18 months. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. The then seven-year-old author watched as he "reached into the basket of dinner rolls on the table and licked each one before putting it back, while everyone laughed uproariously." Both wrote for the Harvard Crimson and Ben worked as an associate editor at New York in 2005. And she managed all this with business-like acuity that's a little startling. Kaufman was a spectacularly poor provider, insolvent, unreliable and worse. | Here is Wendy in a jacuzzi at an exclusive spa at 24, sharing the waters naked with Clark Gable's widow (who has nothing to do with anything), learning that her idolized big sister was fathered by an uncle. JS: She provided a really interesting perspective on a period of time. Wasserstein is best known for her plays The Heidi Chronicles and The Sisters Rosensweig, which tackled complex subjects such as love, motherhood, marriage and sibling relations often against a backdrop of feminism. As Lucy Jane entered kindergarten at the Brearley School a school to which young Wendy, decades earlier, had been too ungainly or too uncouth or too Jewish to gain admittance Wasserstein went into a final decline. It made me reflect. On the other hand, there were the competing messages for women, which were to be successful, or more successful than men, to dedicate yourself to your career. Among the judges are Olivier winner Amber Riley and Frozen star Samantha Barks. JS: I think the plays are a mixed bag. (from The Little Show) and the even better "Can This Be Love?" Earlier in her career, Lucy served as a trial attorney for the District of Columbia and as an adviser in the Executive Office of the Mayor. NEW YORK CITY A comely Columbia Business School grad who had a lovechild with the late billionaire investor Bruce Wasserstein wants her little girl to have use of his custom-designed East Hampton pad to help the toddler connect to her dead dad. Among the judges are Olivier winner Amber Riley and Frozen star Samantha Barks. The sad thing, among many sad things, is that we don't know what would have come next. Our books column explores the unusual entanglements of two Broadway names: Wendy Wasserstein in "Wendy and the Lost Boys," and George Gershwin in "The Memory of All That" by Kay Swift's granddaughter. She resists the urge to over-analyze her subject and lets the story speak for itself. The name of her father was something I didn't find out. THE BOOK SHELF: A Biography of Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, Plus Kay Swift and "The Memory of All That". Wasserstein began her career as a journalist, eventually becoming a producer for CBS News, where she worked in the networks Dubai, Belfast, London and Paris bureaus and won an Emmy for an investigative series. The series, from Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, has been given a two-season order. Wassersteins most recent work, Third, ended a New York run on Dec. 18, 2005. Wendy, the baby, became the first woman to win a (solo) Tony award for best play. Andrew Gans Later when Bishop made a commitment to a man and adopted a daughter, Wasserstein was deeply stung. She chose not to do that. Eminently approachable, often unkempt, Wasserstein did not look like the sort of woman to keep complicated personal ledgers. I think she was on to an understanding of her generation and the changing mores and the changing demands on people that I think will hold up over time. As friends gather to mourn financier Bruce Wasserstein, Ralph Gardner Jr. reports on the future of Lazard Frres, New York magazine, and his sister Wendys famous daughter. but as some sort of mother figure. Swift was also our prime expert on the score for Porgy and Bess, having been deeply involved in its creation. She was 55. (Wasserstein certainly wasnt the first or the last to work very hard to put to rest the clich that women cant be funny.) | Opening at the Pioneer Theater in 1977 with a young Meryl Streep, Jill Eikenberry, and Swoosie Kurtz in its mostly novice cast, the plays frankness struck a powerful chord. By Wendy Wasserstein February 13, 2000 I got up at 5 a.m. on August 27th to write Fay Franciss eulogy. The 93-year-old Swift turned up at a show I produced in 1990, offhandedly introducing me to her 84-year-old friend Frankie. in the key of F, and still enjoy sitting at the piano with it. May 1, 2023, By Due to the expansive nature of Off-Broadway, this list is not comprehensive. This sort of thing rarely bothers me, as the published sheet music versions back in the old days were typically altered from the composer's manuscript anyhow. Biographer Julie Salamon sheds light on Wendy Wasserstein, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of The Heidi Chronicles and The Sisters Rosensweig . Perhaps if Wassertein had outlived her mother and been able to raise her own daughter into adulthood, she might have examined that wound with more maturity. They were three years apart. The mother of his two youngest sons is Claude Wasserstein, the investor's third wife. The psychiatrist's report said that the little girl has no meaningful memories of her dad and that her Hamptons visits would create arguments and hurt her development. The couple had two children before George died of appendicitis, in 1941. In fact, she came from a family that knew how to keep its secrets, of secret-keepers and kept many things to herself, including her final illness. The '60s was supposed to be about "power to the people," and then it became "power to me." Natan Zamansky It was an authorized biography in that Andr endorsed the project and was very helpful with it but he did not read it until it was in galleys. Hanging over their heads was the image of Herman Wouks Marjorie Morningstar, a girl full of promise for life and art who winds up married and unremarkable forevermore. It's both a gratifying and a sobering experience. She left behind a valuable piece of history about what women of her class and education were thinking at a particular moment in time. Salamon, in "Wendy and the Lost Boys," illustrates the career and life of Wendy Wasserstein in smashingly good, can't-put-the-book-down read-through-the night form. Wasserstein, the chairman of Lazard Frres and owner of New York magazine, died two months ago, shortly after being diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat. It looks like we don't have any Biography for Lucy Jane Wasserstein yet. P | 434-381-6596 Davis' Death of a Salesman co-star Wendell Pierce hosted a screening and talkback for the new film. Her eldest, Sandra Meyer, was a top executive for American Express and Citicorp at a time when few women entered those boardrooms. But Anup Bagaria, who ran Wassersteins media holdings, quickly quashed the rumors by issuing a statement that the magazine wasnt for sale. McAuliffes representative to the FCCs Intergovernmental Advisory Committee and co-chaired Virginias Cyber Security Commission. Ann Godoff at Penguin Press has been my editor this is the fifth book we've done together and she had been approached by Andr Bishop, [the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater], who was a good friend of Wendy's and her literary executor. Sign up for reopening news, announcements, and exclusive discounts on tickets to your favorite shows! An Uncommon Woman: Wendy Wasserstein Gets Spotlight in a New Biography, Biographer Julie Salamon sheds light on Wendy Wasserstein, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of. WebBorn on October 18, 1950, in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish Jewish immigrant parents, Wendy was the youngest of Lola and Morris Wasserstein's five children. But who wants to spend the first half of the book literally, the full first half reading not about Kay and George but about one Sidney Kaufman, who've we've never heard of and never had reason to. Salamon whose other books include "Hospital," "The Christmas Tree" and "The Devil's Candy," which is about making the movie version of Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities" spoke to Playbill.com about Wasserstein's unique place in American theatre. As her old friend Frank Rich, eulogizing her in The New York Times, wrote, She was everybodys Wendy.. The family in general, and Lola especially, provided Wendy with a surfeit of material for her plays, as did her friends, many of whom appeared as only thinly disguised characters in her work. The last time I saw her was especially memorable. She said her outburst came about because she was suffering from postpartum depression. Two of Kay's children seem to have rejected their mother for destroying their family; the middle daughter, Andrea, appears to have just as irretrievably fallen under George's spell. But at the rental house, McCarthy nearly ran over the employee, the affidavit says. And when I say "weighted down," I don't chose those words lightly. According to the New York Post, he fathered her with an unidentified recent Columbia Business School graduate that he met between the time he separated from his third wife, Claude, and met Angela. They were very competitive. Add photos, demo reels Add to list More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Credits IMDbPro Thanks Previous 1 Effective thanks Short 2010 Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content Learn more about contributing Edit page Heidi interestingly may wind up seeming the most dated, because it is so much of its moment. Kenneth Ferrone directs the country-themed musical following a Nashville-bound mother and daughter. As long, that is, as they barricaded unflattering truths behind doors locked so tight that said truths vanished. In 1999, at age 48, Wasserstein had a daughter, Lucy Jane, born three month prematurely. She was so good at making the other person feel so at home, so listened to, that they didn't notice that sometimes they weren't listening to her. In D, my fingers just don't seem to want to find the notes. Who turned out to be Frances Gershwin Godowsky, kid sister to George. The grief at Wendys memorial was understandable. Georgette, who wanted a quiet life, runs a large country inn with her husband. Among her many honors are an IP3 award from Public Knowledge for her work in information policy. Later Work and Legacy Wasserstein made a special place for herself in the American theater by being one of the first women to stage womens issues with the astute and comic eye of a social critic. I think she nailed the structural issues. Their youngest sister, Georgette, is an innkeeper in Vermont. It can be as simple as going to the ballet or being with your child.. From two current residents of Camelot to two Evan Hansens, Playbill raises the curtain for Broadway's brightest born in May. Wasserstein is survived by her daughter Lucy Jane; her mother, Lola; a sister, Georgette Levis; and her brother, Bruce Wasserstein, chairman and chief executive of Lazard LLC. filmography, trivia, personal details, etc. An estate manager eventually got McCarthy to leave and drove her home. Bruce Wasserstein pioneered the 1980s-style corporate takeover and became one of the richest men in the country (Forbes put him at #190). Please consider supporting us bywhitelisting playbill.com with your ad blocker.Thank you! The playwright was single at the time and did not disclose the name My 50s are about being a mother and the joy of my daughter Lucy Jane and about loss. One of his most striking compositions, a self-portrait from 1934, is centered on 12-year-old Andrea; George sits behind her or maybe she is on his lap taking the photo in a mirror, the Leica obscuring his face.). | The sadness at his memorial service was almost as much for the Wasserstein clan as for Bruce in particulara family that seemed to possess a secret formula for talent and success, but also faulty genes. The result is a detailed picture of a complicated person. She died of lymphoma in 2006 at age 55. Is it to be the richest person? Laurie Winer, a former drama critic at the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, is an editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. The Jerusalem Post Customer Service Center can be contacted with any questions or requests: Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein, Sign up for The Jerusalem Post Premium Plus for just $5, Upgrade your reading experience with an ad-free environment and exclusive content, Copyright 2023 Jpost Inc. All rights reserved. Lolas habit of diminishing Wendys successes did not decrease with age. See also How To Adjust Ring Floodlight Camera It is no fault of the authors that one finishes the book feeling a bit like one of Wassersteins friends that this was a woman who left mysteries about why she left mysteries. But the plays a play is a work of art were a huge struggle for her. E | kplacidi@sbc.edu. The sadness among his fellow billionaires at Bruce Wassersteins December 7 memorial service could only partly be explained by the recognition that inclusion on the Forbes 400 is no guarantee of longevity. Salamon, an author and culture critic, twines Wassersteins story with the womens movement in which she came of age. When Wasserstein, the head of investment firm Lazard and the owner of New York magazine, died suddenly at 61 in 2009, he left behind an estimated $2.2 billion fortune, a widow, three ex-wives and six children. Organise, control, distribute, and measure all of your digital content. Weber spends less time discussing her mother and more on her grandmother, who started the next stage of life after Gershwin by marrying a rodeo cowboy, writing a book about it, making a film about it (starring Irene Dunne as Kay), and divorcing said cowboy. He In a court filing responding to the allegations, McCarthy said she didn't break into the home, noting she had a key to the front gate and knew the doors would be open. Her plays are not directly autobiographical, but they tell a lot of truths. (According to his daughter, he more or less developed the use of completion bonds for independent films, which is sort of an insurance policy for motion pictures.). | In the case of these two songs, though, I find the newly published versions which seem to be straight transpositions more difficult to play. It may have seemed to Wasserstein herself that a talented woman could do interesting work and hang out with fascinating, sexy people, or she could get married. She told very few people that she was taking fertility drugs and even fewer people when she finally got pregnant at age 48 a miracle that she said was the result of a last ditch, in-vitro fertilization. In both roles she worked on several long-standing institutional reform cases pertaining to the citys child welfare, juvenile justice, and mental health services. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. Ms. Wasserstein, 49, has long been called ''the voice of her generation.'' In an astute new biography, Wendy and the Lost Boys, veteran reporter Julie Salamon fills in the history that produced a personality as extravagantly affable and intensely compartmentalized as Wendy Wasserstein. Which of her plays do you think will last? A very big loss. McCarthy again stressed out the family during a blowup in August 2008, when Wasserstein was vacationing at the East Hampton property with his two youngest sons. Alford currently serves on the board of directors of the Bank of the James and the Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation. She signed up for a playwriting class at nearby Smith College, for which she wrote her first play, Velveteen Goes to Taco Bell, in which the heroine is pelted with burritos and has to eat her way out of the deluge. While they were together, McCarthy said he wanted her to get pregnant and helped her conceive through in-vitro fertilization. Sweet Briar College Board of Directors adds three new members By And she left behind a small child, Lucy Jane, who Wendy had decided to have on her own when she was 48 and whose birth The New York Times covered in affectionate detail. Bruce also had three older childrenScoop, a law student; Ben, a writer at HBO, and Pam, who works at Tribeca Films. They really loved each other at the same time they competed with each other. Cover art for "Fine and Dandy: The Kay Swift Songbook", Broadway Eatery Glass House Tavern Targeted With Negative Reviews Following Dispute With Pedicab Drivers, Gold House's A100 List Announces Honorees Stephanie Hsu, Lea Salonga, More, Jessica Phillips, Analise Scarpaci, Jennifer Fouch, More Cast in Reading of New Musical, Gideon Glick and David Alvarez to Star in Prime Video's, Playbill Celebrates Broadway's May Birthdays, What Anna Uzele and Colton Ryan Learned From Working with John Kander. He was married four times, most recently last February to Angela Chao, 35, an executive in her familys shipping company (and sister of former Labor Secretary Elizabeth Chao) whose nuptials to Bruce triggered several think pieces on the allure of beautiful young Asian women for jowly middle-aged masters of the universe. Copyright 1991-2023 Playbill Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Photo by Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic). Robert Brustein [dean of the Yale School of Drama when Wasserstein was a student there] said it as a criticism, but I'm saying it in praise, that she was a dramatic sociologist and historian. Release Wasserstein, the first woman to win a Tony for drama-writing for her 1988 play The Heidi Chronicles, which also won her a Pulitzer Prize was beloved among both her colleagues and her fans, many of whom felt as if they knew her intimately because of the personal and confessional nature of much of her writing. Some of her best writing was in her essays. I don't know how well it's going to hold up. Bruce and Wendy had the closest and the most contentious relationship. WebLucy Jane Wasserstein. Lucy Jane Wasserstein father unknown, possibly one of the boys (but Wendy refused to tell even them) survived and has apparently thrived. Lola died in 2007 and Bruce in 2009. My father died two years ago, and then my friend (director) Gerald Gutierrez died. I did a little bit of research into Wendy's family, and I was fascinated about what was known and what wasn't known. They both were ambitious. Wasserstein's plays include The Heidi Chronicles, The Sisters Rosensweig, Uncommon Women and Others, Isn't It Romantic, An American Daughter and Third, as well as Pamela's First Musical, with songs by Cy Coleman and David Zippel, based on her illustrated children's book. He is a 1983 graduate of the University of Virginia and received a J.D. The 2000 play Old Money was a thinly veiled depiction of Wassersteins older brother Bruce, a hedge-funder entrepreneur who became chairman of the investment bank Lazard. Her gift was in dialogue and character. Bruces sister Wendy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of The Heidi Chronicles, died of lymphoma in 2006. Known as Bid Em Up Bruce, he was one of the more feared takeover artists of the last several decades, devising some of the most brilliant and brutal takeover tactics in deals such as DuPonts takeover of Conoco, Philip Morris bid for Kraft, and Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts' takeover of Nabisco. The first official biography of the Broadway titan, **Julie Salamon**s Wendy and the Lost Boys (Penguin Press), draws upon the recollections of friends, classmates, and Wassersteins incomplete memoir, to fill in much of her private story. And then she dedicated herself to picking impossible men. Im beautiful from the knees down, she joked to friends. The affair crushed Wasserstein's other children, who at the time were mourning the death of their beloved aunt, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, and a grandmother. Access the best of Getty Images with our simple subscription plan. 14 Highlights From the Current Broadway SeasonAnd Beyond, Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan Bring a Rarely Seen Lorraine Hansberry Gem Back to New York, On Broadway, Playwright James Ijames and Director Saheem Ali Are Making a Meal of. Real loss. Whatever flaws Lola Wasserstein had as a mother, she produced more than her share of extraordinary offspring. | Get email notification for articles from David B. Why dont you just call my brother and hell explain it to you, she said, before hanging up the phone. And that's really a complicated act. A graduate of University of Michigan, he earned a law degree and MBA at Harvard. However, a proceeding on how to split Wasserstein's assets is ongoing. Like The Heidi Chronicles (1988)her most successful play, for which she won the Tony and the Pulitzerand The Sisters Rosensweig (1992), it captured the frustrations of women who are trying to make their mark just as the rule books are being rewritten; Wasserstein mined her own experiencesfrom sex to feminist consciousnessraising seminarsfor the kind of laughs that hurt. The report also said that photographs were the best way for children to have a relationship with a dead parent, but noted the paucity of pictures at McCarthy's home. Nothing was ever simple with her. I met Wendy only once, a long time ago, and I can't say I even knew her casually, yet there were many overlaps in our worlds. Not so the mother, who in her article only hinted at the true complications of her pregnancy. He is the immediate past president and former board member of Boonsboro Country Club, former trustee for James River Day School, and former chairman and board member of the Alliance for Families & Children. She also heard Chao's voice in the bedroom and didn't know Wasserstein had begun a new relationship, she said. Like the night Zero Mostel came to dinner, circa 1962. Davis' Death of a Salesman co-star Wendell Pierce hosted a screening and talkback for the new film. Lolas family was both dazzling and haunted by dark secrets and early deaths. Copyright 2009-2018, New York Public Radio. And then the biggest question with Wendy is, what was success? After a difficult pregnancy and Lucy Janes premature birth, Wassersteins health declined as her daughter grew stronger. Copyright 2009-2018, DNAinfo. In the U.S., he became a high-school principal who, in his free time, liked to frequent the race track. WebLucy Jane Wasserstein IMDbPro Starmeter See rank Help contribute to IMDb. While Wasserstein enjoyed many of the accoutrements of great wealtha sprawling mansion in the Hamptons and a duplex on Fifth Avenuehe was famously unkempt, only in later years dressing the part of the Lazard chairman. Be the first to contribute! Biography. (Weber accumulated bits of the story over the years, with many perplexing shadows filled in courtesy of her father's FBI file, some 800 pages-worth.) The Voices of 'Shrek': Where Are They Now? We knew many people in common, so there was an eerie sense of familiarity in our lives. Whereas Sisters Rosensweig, which is so much a family story, may last longer. When trustees rebuffed her requests, she went to court, claiming they play favorites by allowing Wasserstein's five other children to use the property, but barring her daughter because she was born out of wedlock. Holyoke. By Wendy Joy Wasserstein was born on October 18, 1950, and was the daughter of Morris Wasserstein and the former Lola Schleifer. He pens the monthly A Life in the Theatre feature. Her siblings knew more: Abner Wasserstein, born in 1940, developed severe mental disabilities at around the age of 5 and was installed in an institution. To learn more about board activities, visit the boards website. Wasserstein went on to the Yale School of Drama at an auspicious time; her classmates included Sigourney Weaver and Meryl Streep. [In addition to many autobiographical essays, her works included the screenplay for "The Object of My Affection" (1998) and a novel, "Elements of Style" (2006).] But Wasserstein's East Hampton home, known as Cranberry Dune, appears to be the most coveted possession among all the siblings. After Yale, Wasserstein used her gift for intimacy to fashion safe harbors in which she could grow as a playwright. So I decided to write a play about all that. The DNAinfo archives brought to you by WNYC.Read the press release here. Lucy Jane (born September 1999) Comments Biography: Wendy Wasserstein was born on October 18, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York to Morris Wasserstein and Lola Schleifer. It's an interesting play, but I think the character of Heidi is so passive, is such a cipher, that she became a good gathering place for the thoughts people were having at the time. His net worth was $2.2 billion, not including a $188 million payout triggered by his death. As I interviewed people for this book, whether they knew Wendy or didn't know Wendy, three plays, The Heidi Chronicles, Uncommon Women and Others [1977], and to a lesser extent The Sisters Rosensweig [1992, a semi-Chekhovian serious comedy modeled on her own family about, well, three sisters], spoke to the things that people within this relatively small but powerful universe were thinking about. Wendy had a very public persona that she created through her writing not just the plays but her essays in The Times and elsewhere. When she was 40, she began fertility and pregnancy treatments, and after many failures, finally bore a child, in 1998, at age 48. What was Wendy's relationship like with her older brother Bruce, who died in 2009 at age 61? And I think the issues she was talking about, for the generation as a whole but for women in particular, were very profound. He went to Ann and asked if there was anyone interested in doing it, and she called me. Wasserstein lost her beloved big sister Sandra to cancer in 1997 at age 60. She also currently receives nearly $200,000 each summer to rent a Hamptons estate, lives in a multimillion Manhattan apartment paid for by Wasserstein and gets tens of thousands of dollars in support a month, court papers say. Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. Claude Wasserstein said the meltdown left her two boys traumatized. | I think it transcends its time better. Finally, a bout with a rare form of I guess they thought Id be writing plays in the library of the medical school, Wasserstein quipped. Collect, curate and comment on your files. Though he no longer dated McCarthy, he paid for her and their infant daughter to stay in a nearby home so they could visit. May 1, 2023, By Kenneth Ferrone directs the country-themed musical following a Nashville-bound mother and daughter. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, who died at the age in 2006 at the age of 55, was highly accomplished and by all reports quite a character. I find it very moving. Julie Salamon's "Wendy and the Lost Boys," an authorized biography of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, has just been published by Penguin Press. Both things were important to Ann. The pregnancy was difficult; she developed Bells Palsy and high blood pressure. The first woman to win a Tony for Best Play, Wasserstein, who died of lymphoma five years ago, at age 55, filled her plays with so many details from her own lifeher childhood in Brooklyn, her struggles with her body, with her family, with romance, and with women friendsshe seemed a kind of New York everywoman, a congenial precursor to Carrie Bradshaw. WebLucy Jane Wasserstein photos, including production stills, premiere photos and other event photos, publicity photos, behind-the-scenes, and more. There would be no question of which path she would take. Lucy Jane Lola was from Wloclawek, north of Warsaw, and had arrived in America in 1928, the year after her father, a yeshiva teacher, had fled Poland while being pursued by authorities who suspected him of Bolshevik ties. Andrew Gans Did your son get sick? This was how Lola told her daughter that she had been married before to the brother of Wendys father. That's what made her plays so interesting. The annual A100 list recognizes 100 Asian Pacific leaders making an impact across several industries. Swift spent a good part of her 95 years as the unofficial artistic guardian of George's music; having sat beside him on the piano bench for half his adult life and being an accomplished musician herself Kay was the person to go to for songs, for information, and for demonstrations of how George intended his music to sound. . The one who was lost, if you will and who some analyst somewhere might even theorize was a "lost boy" was Wendy Wasserstein herself. She attended at Mount Holyoke College, City College, and Yale University School of Drama. The whole notion of what success is has become very murky. May 1, 2023, By Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein by Julie Salamon (The Penguin Press). But the proposal failed. Those five siblings offer a different reason they don't want to be around McCarthy, 41, who they say destroyed their dad's longtime marriage and once broke into the East Hampton property, "terrorizing" little children. Holyoke College, graduating in 1971. During its meeting on campus last month, the Sweet Briar College Board of Directors confirmed three new members: Claude Becker Wasserstein 82, Karen Jackson and John Alford.