Brady's Bunch.

Advertising Age, April, 2001 by Brady, James

With all due respect to ``60 Minutes'' and the Sunday Magazine of The New York Times, I'm not buying Darryl Strawberry as ``an American tragedy.'' Long before cancer, Straw was beating up women, evading taxes, doing coke, fighting teammates and indulging his appetites, while pounding bibles and ``finding Jesus'' whenever he got caught. A bum and a phony.

Nifty line from New York Post sportswriter Joel Sherman: ``A Calista Flockhart pitch, nowhere near the plate.''

Lunched with Lynn Heiler, publisher of Bon Appetit, at this hot Mario Batali place Esca, West 43rd and 9th Ave. in Manhattan. Great fish. But God forbid you ask for a glass of wine. Mini-carafes only, sniffs the headwaiter. Lynn was off to Cannes, where her magazine is a sponsor of the...

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