In his upper eastside Manhattan apartment, Michael is throwing a birthday party for Harold, a self-awoved "32 year-old, pock-marked, Jew fairy", complete with surprise gift: "Cowboy" a street ...

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Those twin desires would drive him to teenage stardom in the early 1990s as a member of the boy band Take That, followed by a hypersonic solo career seemingly sustained as much by alcohol and ...