Autocross Blogs - Estelle Jacken

Steve and Marjorie Harvey are slumped down in oversize cushiony leather chairs in the foyer of the entertainment wing of their massive Atlanta-area mansion, comparing schedules. The Harveys, you see, are trying to figure out where on the planet they'll be in the next two weeks, and, more important, when they'll be able to link up to celebrate Marjorie's forty-fifth birthday. She'll be spending more than a week in Paris with her Libra friends, who decided to celebrate their birthdays together on a girlfriend's getaway to Fashion Week in the City of Light. He'll be zooming back and forth between his radio show in Atlanta, speaking engagements and comedy show stops up and sale tiffany necklaces down the Eastern Seaboard. Miraculously, they'll both darken the doorstep of their home just in time for the matriarch of the six-member Harvey household to blow out the candles and be serenaded with "Happy Birthday."

"Cool. So when I get back, I'm gonna ball you out for your birthday," Steve says, tapping the screen on his iPhone. "Your present is the trip to Paris."Crickets.Marjorie gives her husband of two years a hazel-colored sideeye. He stares back, clearly confused. Finally, Marjorie breaks her silence. "Wait, how is my trip to Paris with my girls, that I planned, my birthday present? Oh no, mister."Steve, whose New York Times best-selling Oprah-approved book catapulted the self-proclaimed King of Comedy into his new role as King of Teaching Women shop for tiffany accessories How to Get a Good Man, may know a thing or two about hipping women to the ways of men. But on this day? Right now? There's a little doubt about whether he knows what a woman- specifically his wife-wants.

They both break into a fit of laughter when they consider this. "Come on now," Harvey says, his cheek-long dimples and mile-wide smile matched only by the huge grin on his wife's face. "You know I got you.""I Got You" is the Steve Harvey mantra for women. His Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, which he describes as a "playbook" for understanding the secrets of the relationship games men play, launched a literary juggernaut when it debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times Best Sellers Hardcover Advice list and garnered two nods on The Oprah Winfrey Show. To date, the straight-talking title has spent shop for tiffany bracelets 37 weeks rotating in the Top 5 on the Times list, selling more than 1.5 million copies, earning Harvey a spot as a relationship and parenting analyst on Good Morning America, and attracting the attention of Screen Gems, which last summer announced its intention to turn the book into a film. The entertainer has inspired countless women to rethink how they meet, date, interact and settle down with the opposite sex. Harvey's no-holds-barred advice encourages women to stop hating the players and take the time to understand the game if they really want lasting love.