But she's taken care to bring along a small Peter Beard photograph with a wooden frame that sits on a shelf and a Francis Bacon self-portrait drawing that's hanging in the living room.

WSJ: Golden Girl

After his two losers, Jack (Peter Beard) and Leo (Martin Greenbaum), spend seven years courting the same woman, Vera (each has his own version of her, played by different actresses), she runs off with a third man, and her jilted suitors head for the wilderness in raucous despair to live out a survivalist fantasy that joins Mark Twain and Ernest Hemingway to Charlie Chaplin, W. C.

NEWYORKER: Hallelujah the Hills

The James Beard Foundation, which sponsors the awards, was created in 1986 by Julia Child and the late Peter Kump to preserve the culinary philosophy, ideals and practices of cookbook author and well-known chef James Beard, who died in 1985.

CNN: trotter