"The coach was testing everybody on the team and was saying nobody can kick extra points," she recalled.
Among other memorable low points, she recalled one recent afternoon over lunch in the penthouse at the James Hotel here, was a rain-soaked weekend near Edmonton, Alberta, when she showed up to give a motivational speech at a Canadian resort.
To help underscore her points, she recalled and discussed a number of major privacy blunders from Facebook and Google.
At one point, she recalled, her son Shalee, 6, awoke with a start.
"I didn't even have the prospect of a book at that point," she recalled.
It was at that point, she recalled, that the appraisal came in at only $700,000.
At one point, she recalled, she was in an airport and "through clenched teeth said: 'I don't want anyone to come over and talk to me.
At one point, she recalled, Basquiat visited his house: "Eli owned a painting called 'Obnoxious Liberals,' and I'm sure that that was Jean-Michel's take on a lot of it.
At one point, she recalled, a Hale House staff member told them that volunteers from the church had been allowed to take the baby home for a weekend, and were refusing to bring Amanda back.
"He called me, at one point," she recalled, "and said, 'Linda, just let me build the golf course -- I'm rich, you'll like it.' " Mr. Trump said at the time that the land, zoned for residential use, was worth roughly $100 million and that he could have sold it to a developer.
To prove her point, she recalled a story an actress once told her, in which she asked on the set of a television show why there weren't more female directors involved.
