(With his second wife, Christine Parrott, Wasserstein had three children: Pamela, Ben, who works with a producer at HBO, and Scoop, now a law-school student. The less people know about you and your feelings, the more powerful your negotiating position will bein everything. And the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award went to Lola Wasserstein. ''Peter at the end of 'The Heidi Chronicles' says, 'In our lives our friends are our families. Ive never met anybody like him. I recognized Shaynas mother, Miss Hutchinson, from our time at the back of the room, when our babies were still critical. It was almost time for Shayna to go home, too. I felt as if I were back in class at Mount Holyoke, in 1967, with one visiting male student from Amherst. I couldnt bring myself to smile one more minute or pretend this was all just routine for me. Still, there are a large number of men, gay and straight, whom Ms. Wasserstein regards as ''husbands,'' she said. 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. The nights were more challenging. Your mother happened to come in for a visit when the transfusion was happening and I think it threw her.. I sat down on the freaking steps, and he stood over me, Perella says. *. Rather than face that prospect, the board capitulated. A tall African-American woman, she guarded her daughter jealously. I want you to pass your energy on to her. WebLucy Jane Wasserstein, daughter of the late Wendy Wasserstein, should be about 12 years old as of this writing. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. nurse told me. Hold her? I asked. So I shouldnt front-run them., Indeed, the story that lots of people are telling is that Wasserstein was living an unhealthy lifestyle. Her two daughters, in little silk dresses, looked like children in a Sargent painting. I think there are very few people who from a business perspective had such an impact on our business over 30 years, spanning four decades, he says. She had seen a lot of things in the N.I.C.U., but she wasnt accustomed to bellowing Cuban men in feathers. I ran down the corridor in search of Dr. Green, a large Southerner who was covering for Ian Holzman. I want you to go right now.. Oh, God, he just wouldnt pose for a picture standing side by side. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight Ive never understood why. My family genes do not specialize in shoulder blades or collarbones. Not yet, I answered. So Brooklyn would be the logical place for the Wasserstein-family plot, which would contain not only his grave but also those of his sister Wendy, the Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright, who died in 2006 at age 55 from lymphoma; his half-sister, Sandra, a senior executive at Citibank, who died in 1997 at age 60 from breast cancer; and his parents, Morris and Lola Wasserstein, who died in 2003 and 2007, respectively. Get the food,' '' Ms. Wasserstein said. Try to lie on your left side, he calmly admonished me. '' Holly says at one point. Another? I hadnt heard of the first one, and I panicked, just as my mother would. The nurses there call every mother Mommy.. I reached toward her and she stepped back nervously. Call me. Her brain was doing fine, though. I feel so badly, she said. He had gone to Cravath after receiving a joint graduate degree in business and law from Harvard and after a year studying British merger law at Cambridge University on a Knox Traveling Fellowship. Years active. But youd take him to client meetings and most of the time youd be exchanging looks with the C.E.O. Rob Phillips. David-Weill left the firm in May 2005, after Wasserstein had crafted a clever strategy to get rid of him by taking public the longtime private partnership. Yet, they remain appalled by how little he actually didboth in bringing in new business and in managing the companywhile negotiating for himself one huge pay package after another. In all my years in pursuit of fertility, the possibility of having a premature child had never occurred to me. The Isolettes are lined up against the walls, with about four feetroom for a rocking chairbetween them. She came from a family of four children. Her dark eyes were shining as if she were still a girl playing by the Vistula River in Poland. WebLucy Jane Wasserstein. After assuring me that everything was O.K., she said, I think I may also have overstepped myself. Bruce always maintained it was a lifestyle choice and other things, a friend recalls. Sweet Briar College Board of Directors adds three new members Agent With bells going off constantly, the place sounded like S. Kleins during a lingerie sale. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. For the first time in the N.I.C.U., I felt self-conscious about being a single mother. Dont be nervous. But before moving ahead, she first had to decide whether to have the baby alone. ''As far as I know, all premature babies are brain surgeons. ''How's it going?'' Not bad for a guy who was willing to make it up as he went along, as his old friend Larry Grafstein put it. Maybe it was my affection for Fay, or the unaccustomed tingling in my hand. Wasserstein's first marriage, to wife Laura, ended in 1974. A nurse wrapped a Velcro-lined cuff around my upper arm. A week later, I was walking down the street in my neighborhood and strangers smiled at me. Wassersteins daughter, Lucy Jane, was born three-months premature, and the mothers health continued to deteriorate. Jan 2013 - Jan 20174 years 1 month. When I was in college, there was a popular aphorism: Smith to bed, Holyoke to wed. Lucy Jane Wassersteins see-through mobile home was rolled to the front left Well, pick something. Bhutani and Parr were appointed to the Lazard board in January. 19 (approx.) I remembered my last conversation with her. His condition was initially stabilized in the hospital. continued to ring. But when Georgette asks Pamela if it would be all right to be interviewed, she nixes it. How could you have done that? recalls a managing director. Dr. Green interrupted me as I was feeding Lucy one night. Marcy, from Alaska, flew in to be implanted with embryos created out of my eggs and donated sperm. James Lapine and Heidi Ettinger arrived at Mount Sinai in the morning to take Lucy Jane and me home. Ken Jacobs and [vice-chairman] Steve Golub, says one Lazard banker, and he left all the leadership stuff to the two of them. As far as I can make out, relaxing and lying on your left side is the treatment for preclampsia. At Wassersteins December 7 memorial service, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, in New Yorks Lincoln Center, the eulogizers waxed eloquent. In January 2008, Wasserstein wrung from his handpicked board of directors a new five-year employment contract that paid him $900,000 a year in salary, plus an annual unspecified bonus, plus 2.7 million shares of Lazard, worth just under $100 million the day the deal was struck. He was my first and most compassionate fertility doctor. in fine arts from the Yale School of Drama in 1976. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. Lazard and Krafts other advisers, meanwhile, split a fee estimated at as much as $58 million. For eight years, I had believed that the greatest regret of my life would be childlessness. By this time, Shayna and Lucy Jane were each strong enough to drink from a bottle. Thats all right, I said. She wheeled in a breast pump that looked as if it could bail out a battleship. And were home. . Then, in February 2006, he disappeared from Lazards offices for four months. It was caring, but weird. Larry Grafstein, the head of M&A at Rothschild in New York, who worked for Wasserstein for years at Wasserstein Perella and at Lazard, wrote in an essay in The New Republic how exasperating that aspect of Wassersteins personality was. is a large open space divided in the front by a long reception desk and ringed by a wallpaper border of rabbits and Teddy bears in hot-air balloons. On the holiest night of the year, after Yom Kippur services at Temple Emanu-El, I took a taxi back to the Klingenstein Pavilion. Father: not yet announced. If the baby didnt come to term after all these years of trying, I wanted it to be a personal loss, not a public one. The director Jerry Zaks told her his daughter had been in the same neonatal unit and was now bright and healthy. Wendy, its me, Michael Drews, he said. But even a man in a suit is no guarantee against lung damage and anemia. The guests and his colleagues tried unsuccessfully to interrupt several times. Later, my sister Georgette told me that when our mother first saw my baby and heard the details of my delivery she cried as inconsolably as she had when Sandra died. He had lost his relevance. ''We just want to raise a glass to our beloved Wendy,'' Ms. Rosenthal said. Im having a wonderful time., After twelve days in the hospital, the news about my condition was suddenly not so good. Ms. Wasserstein had a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, where she was writing ''Old Money,'' a play about money and class to be produced at Lincoln Center next fall. Hello, darling, he said. On hand, it seemed, was much of the theater establishment, including at least two of Lucy Jane's ''fathers,'' Mr. Graham and Mr. Bishop. I was examining a twinkling ruby light on my babys big toe. 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. 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. Hows the baby? they asked. Im just warning you. These parents were satisfied customers. This is a sign of how out of touch he was, says a longtime partner. Mars! Is that all right?, Yes. At nine in the morning, William arrived with an armful of cordinated blue floral curtains, pillows, and Monet posters. I rolled over. Congratulations! Laurie Goldstein reappeared the next morning with bad news: I showed all the classic signs of preclampsia. And the idea that either Bruces or Wendys admirers might want to pay their respects by visiting their gravesite is not received kindly.
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