{"id":10815,"date":"2011-05-06T15:59:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T19:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=10815"},"modified":"2011-05-06T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T20:04:06","slug":"my-almost-husband-paul-mccartney-to-wed-nancy-shevell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/my-almost-husband-paul-mccartney-to-wed-nancy-shevell\/","title":{"rendered":"My Almost-Husband Paul McCartney to Wed Nancy Shevell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, at the benefit luncheon for the Trust for the National Mall<\/a> (to which I wore my Alexander McQueen suit<\/a>), I had a enjoyable and completely biased chat with a woman at my table about how the third time’s the charm when it comes to wives<\/a>. In our experience, men who have been married twice before have learned how to treat a lady. So I am happy to welcome Nancy Shevell to our club. She’s been dating my almost-husband<\/a> Paul McCartney for four years, and now they are engaged, according to People.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Paul and Nancy. Photo from Billboard.com. Click for source.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m not jealous that Nancy snagged my almost-husband. I long ago realized that things would never have worked out between me and Paul M. due to his affinities for vegetarianism<\/a>, pot<\/a> and annoying thumb gestures<\/a>, none of which I share. And I have good feelings about Nancy, who, unlike McCartney’s second wife, Heather Mills<\/a>, hasn’t told any insane lies about how she used to be a top runway model-turned-Nobel prize nominee.<\/a><\/p>\n

But, after all these years, I’m still bitter whenever People breaks something big on the web. When I was the managing editor of People.com in 1999, the magazine peeps thought the website was a horrible parasite rather than a useful and necessary tool. It was like extracting impacted wisdom teeth to get any cooperation from the print side. Now print is half-dead and nearly every publication has a big web presence. I’m always ahead of my fucking time! That can be a serious problem in business, actually. Outliers<\/a> never get the credit they’re due. As someone once put it to me, it doesn’t matter if you’re two hours early or five minutes late to the train station — either way, you’re not on the train. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, at the benefit luncheon for the Trust for the National Mall (to which I wore my Alexander McQueen suit), I had a enjoyable and completely biased chat with a woman at my table about how the third time’s the charm when it comes to wives. In our experience, men who have been married twice…<\/p>\n

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