Ms. Rosenthal's personal assistant mingled with her baby sitter and housekeeper. My decision to keep my pregnancy a secret from most of my friends was a simple one. Almost a year after my sisters death, I was having lunch at Caf des Artistes when an attractive man whose face I couldnt quite place tapped me on the shoulder. Im coming!. The decade of loss had almost passed, and I was content to be uprooted, in space, alone. Is that all right?, Yes. *. After Fays funeral, I went to my regular appointment at the East Side Womens Ob/Gyn Associates. One of them, Robert Phillips, an M.D./Ph.D. Holzman said there was no reason to worry, I said. All rights reserved. He just could take the money. What made the news so shocking to Wall Street lawyer Toby Myerson was that he had seen his friend four months before, on July 20, at Myersons birthday party in the Hamptons. Trading on Lazard shares was halted at 3:43 p.m. Wasserstein's sister, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, died suddenly in 2006 of lymphoma at 55. I was examining a twinkling ruby light on my babys big toe. Let him go! I got on a flight to Europe the next night. Duly intimidated, I tried to sit up and attach two plastic bottles to my now Hindenberg-size breasts. I felt as if I were back in class at Mount Holyoke, in 1967, with one visiting male student from Amherst. The decorator Mario Buatta, ''the Prince of Chintz,'' was, too. Shes very little, my mother said. He was witty and enthusiastic. Says another person who saw Wasserstein last summer, He frankly looked pretty well. I held her closeall ten pounds of herand told her not to be frightened. I have a name for my daughter, I announced to Dr. Holzman five days after the delivery. They sat at the head table together. Linda Janklow, chairwoman of Lincoln Center Theater, and Lynn Nesbitt, the agent, attended. Im Lucy Jane Wassersteins mother, I said, panting. Michele K. Silverstein came to see me. He was put on life support immediately upon arrival at the hospital. Shes doing much better. He made a knock-on-wood gesture. ), But the man Jordan and Lipton described is the same one who in 1995 had his maid pack up the belongings of his girlfriend Lorinda Ash, who had lived with him for three years. '', Finally, just before Thanksgiving, Lucy was doing well enough to go home for the holidays. In his opinion, my preclampsia was potentially life-threatening and I should prepare myself to have the baby that afternoon, depending on the lab results. As far as I can make out, relaxing and lying on your left side is the treatment for preclampsia. He has spoken at every type of College gathering from orientation to commencement, read scripture at Christmas Vespers, chaired Winter Forums and was part Seeing himself as the Nietzschean bermensch, he believed he played by different rules than everyone else. Well monitor you and probably send you home tomorrow.. The arrhythmia caused him to lose consciousness. ''I just assumed I would have no trouble, being a big, hearty girl,'' she said. Lazard announced it was setting aside $90 million (pre-tax) to cover costs of an unspecified number of future firings. Bruce had the ability to take what he knew about the law and translate it into action that was going to accomplish the clients objective. Nowadays, Perella recalls what he really thought when he first saw Bruce in action: I dont know who this S.O.B. An affected fetus can suffer from stunted growth, or can die if the placenta separates from the uterus. A graduate of Mt. Cover art for "Wendy and the Lost Boys". I arrived at the church looking like an extra from Yentl.. I think she might be home before Thanksgiving, Dr. Holzman went on. After a while, you just began to cave. Most of us didnt really notice for a while that he was gone because most of us had very little interaction with the guy. Lucy Jane Wasserstein. Thank you, Catherine., I hate that Irish nurse, Lola said. Dont be nervous. I believe that his constant presence caused my daughter to become a very early overachiever. 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. He was my first and most compassionate fertility doctor. Mothers sat by their tiny infants, fighting for life in their Isolettes. Shortly after an ambulance took him to a local hospital (nobody will say which one), Lazardthe 162-year-old publicly traded investment-banking firm of which Wasserstein was chairman, C.E.O., and the largest individual shareholderissued the following statement: His condition is serious, but he is stable and recovering., According to several people familiar with what happened to Wasserstein that Sunday afternoon, Lazards public statement was inaccurate. If he generated $30 or $40 million worth of fees in the nine years he was at Lazard, he generated a lot. And you can see those people throughout Wall Street today. Rosen then recites a list of people who once worked with Wasserstein and Perella and now are leaders on Wall Street, among them Raymond McGuire, head of global banking at Citigroup; Hugh Skip McGee, global head of investment banking at Barclays Capital (and previously at Lehman Brothers); Gary Parr, a deputy chairman at Lazard; Jimmy Elliott, the global head of M&A at J. P. Morgan Chase; and Brian Finn, president of investment banking and head of alternative investments at Credit Suisse. And why, of course, Slovakia needed a banker like Bruce to steer it forward. Date of birth. redefined a multicultural neighborhood. We are not from Slovakia. (Rosenfeld declined to be interviewed about Wassersteins role.). Well, pick something. Its higher now! She seemed to be irritated with me. She was born when Wendy was 48, the paternity of the father remains a secret; Wendy would not reveal it even on her deathbed at 55 years old. The last time my mother, Lola Wasserstein, had been in a hospital, she had watched her oldest daughter die of cancer. 19 (approx.) Google+. Not yet, I answered. To ward off any chance of seizure, I was now attached to an intravenous magnesium drip, which made me nauseous. Add a bio, trivia, and more. Shes my grandchild! '', She was 48 and had given up trying when, mourning the death of her sister, she ran into her old fertility doctor, ''whom I loved,'' she said. Ive never understood why. And were home. . And, if you do, most likely we can treat it by keeping you in bed until your delivery., Im sorry, I said. After assuring me that everything was O.K., she said, I think I may also have overstepped myself. Her tiny legs dangled like a dolls. is, but he is one smart guy. Nine out of 10 things that came out of his mouth were crazy, or unfounded, or reflected a lack of attention to his audience and what their issues were. I knew that I was teetering on the high end of high risk. At nine in the morning, William arrived with an armful of cordinated blue floral curtains, pillows, and Monet posters. Some marriages end in divorce. When Ricky burst into song, my daughter started to cry. Arriving to see Lucy at five oclock one evening, I noticed that her tiny knit cap had been cut down the center. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. Any time her oxygen level or heart rate became abnormal, bells would go off. The phenobarbital, he told me, could make me groggy and forgetful. . In short order, my brother, an iconoclastic investment banker who had protected oil companies from T. Boone Pickens and advises movie studios about the dot-com world, managed to secure permanent visitation rights as a parent. Wendy, its me, Michael Drews, he said. Together, they made First Boston a leader in M&A, and then, in 1988, they left the firm after Wasserstein made a dramatic, failed gambit to become C.E.O. '', Last week Ms. Rosenthal held a baby shower at her home in the Dakota. One rumor that would become a particular favorite of mine was that I had been pregnant and hadnt known it. Comic High Jinks and Repressed Despair in Netflixs Beef. The firm made no announcement concerning the health of its C.E.O., despite the fact that its public shareholders were entitled to know that information. Gerry Gutierrez came to the N.I.C.U. Mr. Wasserstein was rushed in an ambulance to a hospital in Manhattan. 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. Right here at FameChain. On her chest were penny-size sticky pads holding down wires that were attached to a machine that measures heart rate, pulse, and oxygen level. A lot of doctors wear them. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. WebWasserstein's daughter Lucy Jane was born three months premature, weighing in at one pound twelve ounces. But a mother just holding her baby, skin to skin, makes an enormous difference.. Lucy Jane was almost weightless. But apparently this is privileged information. You need to punch it up., Yeah, sure. ( 1999-09-12) September 12, 1999 (age 23) New York City, New York, USA. There were forty babies in the N.I.C.U., and each was attached to monitors like these. ''I would stop for two years. Compassionately, wed ask a nurse if everything was all right when a cardiac monitor light suddenly blinked on. Half an hour later, my gray St. James suit was strewn over a stool in the Labor and Delivery ward at Mount Sinais Klingenstein Pavilion. '', The real-life baby, Lucy Jane, was born nearly three months premature and had to stay in the neonatal intensive care unit for two months, though her mother tried to think of her as being away at ''a good Jewish boarding school which specializes in the sciences,'' as usual leavening the painful with a wisecrack. A kiss on the kepele, Lucy Jane, I whispered. To the right are the short-term residents, who will stay anywhere from one night to a week. Ive never met anybody like him. Share. She wheeled in a breast pump that looked as if it could bail out a battleship. The next day, while I was calculating how I would inform the Princeton Theatre Department that I would not be teaching playwriting that fall, Dr. Richard Berkowitz, the hospitals head of obstetrics, came in. It was ten oclock and I learned that Lucy Jane had had another reversal. Bruce always maintained it was a lifestyle choice and other things, a friend recalls. Start a FameChain Add to my FameChain. Her brain was doing fine, though. My pediatrician later explained that the illness was hyaline membrane disease, a lung affliction common in premature babies. In the pictures for the BusinessWeek article, Wasserstein looked thinner, heavily made-up, and awkwardly posed in his Savile Row suit. (Wasserstein had originally asked for a 10-year contract for $365 million.) Wendy Wasserstein is survived by her Even at thirty, she takes Broadway dance classes every day. Most forty-eight-year-old women dont. She was born a month before Lucy and now weighed approximately three pounds. Donald Trumps arraignment was a circus for the media, but it was just another day at the office for New Yorks professional line sitters. '' So, she decided, ''Once more, with feeling.''. Last November 17, the board selected Kenneth Jacobs, 51, a longtime Lazard partner who had had a hand in bringing Wasserstein to the firm in 2001, to be Wassersteins successor and the firms first-ever chairman and C.E.O. Ms. Wasserstein would have juice and the two would ''sit around and vote for Best Supporting Actor in the Birth of Lucy Jane'' among the nurses and doctors. Bruce and Kathleen had a very, very animated discussion about politics and the present state of political affairs. You lost. Or I won. Pinterest. Yes. But if you dont want me to go I wont go., I want you to go, Mother, I said. We are from Slovenia. The way Bruce told it, the room went silent, with ashen faces around the table. Were sending her for another sonogram tomorrow.. The crooner has come across the ocean to give our subway singers free concert tickets and spend money at our Irish bars. At Wassersteins December 7 memorial service, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, in New Yorks Lincoln Center, the eulogizers waxed eloquent. The fact that he was sick wasnt noticed by a lot of us for a month or two., In July 2006, Wasserstein was seen around town again. In 2009, Forbes had estimated Wassersteins net worth at $2.2 billion, making him the 147th wealthiest person in America. Although I have given up trying to estimate how old she is, it is clear that my mother is a trouper. We were there, I hoped, for the long haul. She knew that no child of hers would lack for ''fathers. Joe Perella recalls how Bruces standard diet was hamburger for lunch, shrimp cocktail and steak for dinner. If you want to look at him in the worst light, you would say he didnt give a damn. 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. She came of age when a new definition of what it meant to be a woman was formulating. Before the preclampsia, I had decided to let the babys gender be a surprise. Thats right. So, thats the way he was. Suddenly, Michele K. Silverstein burst in. After his death, Lazard issued another cryptic statement: Mr. The ratio of infants to nurses here is four to one. Say hello to Lucy Jane But I did envy them. The mystery shrouding Bruce Wassersteins death, last October, at 61, fit the billionaire investment bankers M.O. Call me. Wasserstein and Becker were married in 1995 and moved into a duplex at 927 Fifth Avenue. By this time, Shayna and Lucy Jane were each strong enough to drink from a bottle. Rosen tells the story of receiving a phone call after Wasserstein died from Art Reichstetter, a banker who had also worked with Wasserstein at all three firms. After my mothers death, my father plunged the family into evangelicalism, leaving our Jewish faith behind. It would be as if one sought to measure the expanse of the heavens with the span of the human hand. Something vast and powerful and good has passed from us. Andrs brother George, an Oxford-educated minister, presided over the service wearing a white robe with gold vestments. ''I want to know when you're going to write the play about this,'' Pat Schoenfeld, the wife of Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman of the Shubert Organization, asked Ms. Wasserstein. and Lucy Wasserstein '22 about their experiences in their Core courses. She had seen a lot of things in the N.I.C.U., but she wasnt accustomed to bellowing Cuban men in feathers. He just never spent any time with anybody else, except to have us drag his sorry ass to meetings.. Lie on your left side and the doctor will be with you in a few minutes.. I had never known that the Fruit of the Month Club was the road to salvation. Gerry held my head. Sweet Briar College Board of Directors adds three new members Over the years, we had all become part of one anothers family. ', ''And that has been very true in my life. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. As he inserted it into my uterus, he said, So, Wendy, are you writing?, Yes. February 17, 2006. Just after a midnight feeding recently, Lucy Jane and I settled in to watch television. In this episode, Caperton interviews President Meredith Woo, professors Carrie Brown and Jeff Key, and students Cailey Cobb '20 (now an alumna!) It was one of those moments in life where I knew I had met a rare individual. A week before Thanksgiving, Lucy Jane moved to the final, pre-discharge level of the N.I.C.U. I looked over at Shayna. Another? I hadnt heard of the first one, and I panicked, just as my mother would. Its not like I got knocked up. George told us that he knew his mother had found redemption at the end of her life because, in April, she had sent pears to his fathers ailing second wife and, in May, Georgia peaches. But I had lost my momentum. When the condition occurs late in the third trimester, mothers are immediately scheduled for childbirth. Im working on it, I told him. Dr. I just want you to know that. He smiled kindly and left. The light was heating up her capillaries and tracking her blood pressure. The longer we can keep that baby inside of you, the better the babys chances for survival are. He smiled at me. He was telling everyone the way the deal should be done from the lawyers standpoint, and I said to myself, Holy mackerel, this guy is unreal, Perella recounted to Institutional Investor in 1987. Most likely, shell grow out of it. And so, if you believe that, youre not bound by common morality, and youre just incredibly ambitious and impatient and not held back by that.. Adds another former partner, He was a horrible manager, because he was completely self-involved by the time he had gotten control of the firm. You see that in the succession of marriages and children, and blowing Claude up, and marrying Chao, and having an affair with a business-school student and having a child out of wedlock. Lucy's birth is in effect the final act of ''The Heidi Chronicles'' (1989), in which the heroine (whose name was borrowed from Ms. Ettinger), after much spiritual anguish and backing and forthing, becomes a single mother and sits, rocking her baby and singing, ''Darling, you send me. in fine arts from the Yale School of Drama in 1976. Theres nothing like sitting in fertility doctors offices, looking at photos of the children theyve nudged into creation and knowing that youre the negative statistic. There wasnt enough room in the corner of the N.I.C.U. I put my hand through the Isolette porthole and stroked her tiny fingers. I wasnt crying for Sandra exactly, or for fear that this last effort would again prove to be futile. Mars! 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. After the sonogram, I ran into a young woman who had recently taken home one of her twins on a heart-and-lung monitor while the other remained in the N.I.C.U. It was a surreal cross between PBSs Nature and the Food Channel. Look, I hope its just for the night, she said. In a nearby corner was Mrs. King, another African-American woman, and her son, and to her right were the Kaur twins, Tony and Tina, whose father owns an Indian restaurant on Columbus Avenue. 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.
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