For A Serious Journalist, A Sense Of Humor Is Key: It comes as no surprise that Jon Keller, political analyst and satirist for “The News at Ten” on WLVI-TV 56, was class clown while growing up in Cambridge. He was also a voracious newspaper reader who discussed politics around the dinner table with his parents. […]
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At Home with Jack Hynes:
After television newsman Jack Hynes’s wife of 41 years died in 1998, his colleagues at WLVI-TV (Channel 56), where he had anchored the weekday and later the weekend news for 15 years, expected him to relocate from the Chatham townhouse he had shared with Marie to a place in Boston, with its busier lifestyle than […]
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Helen Greiner can build you a robot, but don’t ask her to cook you dinner. The cofounder and chairwoman of iRobot Corp. of Burlington, which makes the Roomba vacuum cleaner and other robotic devices, makes only tea and coffee in her kitchen, beautifully appointed with Corian and chrome design and modern appliances. The two meals […]
Continue ReadingAt Home with Arthur Golden:
Standing inside Arthur Golden’s Victorian house, it’s easy to assume he purchased this striking, teal-colored Brookline home, with its stained-glass windows and stately oak stairway, wainscoting, and trim, after the enormous success of his 1997 novel “Memoirs of a Geisha.” To the contrary, however: The 44-year-old Golden and his wife, Trudy, bought it 17 years […]
Continue ReadingAt Home with Ken Gloss:
Eclectic furnishings, from antique to tacky, turn drab to fab The Newton Centre home of Ken Gloss and Joyce Kosofsky offers a delight in every corner, not unlike a visit to the Brattle Book Shop in Boston, which Gloss and his family have owned since 1949. But while the store’s delights are solely in the […]
Continue ReadingAt Home with Mike and Kitty Dukakis:
Inside the modest, nine-room, brick-and-slate, Philadelphia- style duplex residence of Mike and Kitty Dukakis, it takes some time before clues surface that this is the home of the daughter of late Boston Pops icon Harry Ellis Dickson and a former Massachusetts governor who was the 1988 Democratic nominee for president. Far more noticeable are the […]
Continue ReadingAt Home with Alan Dershowitz:
“Don’t I know you from somewhere?” This hardly sounds like a pickup line to which Alan Dershowitz, renowned defense attorney, Harvard Law professor, and author of 20 books, would resort. Yet 20 years ago, while addressing single adults at a Combined Jewish Philanthropy brunch, he spotted a woman he swore he knew. Lucky for him, […]
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Living Large Off The Court – A Celtics star is devoted to keeping his family comfortable If anyone doubts that Ricky Davis, the 26-year-old starting forward for the Boston Celtics, wants to be a part of the team for a long time to come, they might consider the 14-room, 6 1/2-bath, white-brick contemporary Colonial where […]
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