4 Comments
Oct 17, 2022·edited Oct 17, 2022

Celebrities instinctively don’t like me yet love my wife. Talking to y’all

Ving Rhames and Hugh Laurie 😡

Expand full comment

A friend of mine has a story about John and Yoko. He was collecting signatures to petition for refusniks to leave the Soviet Union, at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal. John & Yoko were having their bed-in to protest the war, and receiving visitors, of course. My friend got their signatures, duly turned in his packet, and later thought, "I could have kept those autographs!"

Expand full comment

Never underestimate synchronicity

That said … In NYC the magic is everywhere. Working in the “theatre”, I rubbed elbows with everyone from Harry Belefonte to Orson Welles. I built sets for John Houseman and Martha Graham. I stage managed for Mike Nichols.

BUT the chance encounters

Doing laundry with Guilda Radner

Getting a haircut with Grace Slick

Once I found myself face to face with the Man From Uncle in his own apt ( long story)

These were by far the most memorable

Expand full comment