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Obituary: Jean Pilk


Obituary: Jean Pilk
PALMYRA, Va. - Jean Pilk, who gave life to the concept of the Cool Mom, died peacefully at her home, surrounded .
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Jean Pilk
PALMYRA, Va. – Jean Pilk, who gave life to the concept of the Cool Mom, died peacefully at her home, surrounded by her adoring family, in Palmyra, Va.
At 4-feet-10-inches tall and a whopping 79 pounds fully dressed, she was much like Dr. Who’s Tardis – inside the tiny container was a world of wonder and contradiction.
Born in Kansas City in 1924 (thank god she’s dead, she’d kill us for announcing her age), her mid-western roots stuck with her for her lifetime. She was impossibly sophisticated, her clothes were of the latest fashion and tailored perfectly to her tiny frame. Her shoes – size 4, so of course challenging to source – were Ferragamo and Chanel for dress and leopard print Chuck Taylor’s for her walkabouts. She read The Wall Street Journal and Vogue with equal enthusiasm, tore throug ....

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Robert Turoff's letters share a history of Golden Apple theater


One letter led to another and it wasn’t long before he realized he had found the hook for a memoir that people had been encouraging him to write about his 42-year career as owner and director of the Golden Apple Dinner Theatre in Sarasota and his even-longer marriage to MacDonald. A Broadway veteran as a teenager, MacDonald became Sarasota’s leading lady starring in dozens of shows during the theater’s long history.
“Now it may seem that writing a letter to someone who is no longer alive would raise many an eyebrow, but to me it was the most natural thing to do,” he writes in the introduction to “Dear Roberta, Letters to My Wife: A Golden Apple Memoir,” published by Smith & Kraus. ....

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