12 noon Sunday. New Yorkers stayed off the roads while garbage trucks converted to snow plows cleared 6,000 miles of city streets. Every street was plowed repeatedly as the snow kept falling.
The Times obituary included all of his most famous buildings, but Frank Gehry, who loved sailing, designed something the architecture critics never saw—the world’s most beautiful sailboat. He let me take the helm one day in a Pacific wind so perfect it seemed like he designed the wind too.
It’s impossible to find adequate words of praise for what I watched my dear friend Audra do on that stage yesterday. She is a miracle. You have until Aug 17 to see the greatest performance in a musical I’ve ever seen.
Had the pleasure of telling George Clooney in April at the opening night party how great the play is and how moving his performance is.
If you just watched the live TV performance of Good Night and Good Luck as I did, you got the full theatrical experience with some extra intimate details that only the close up camera can deliver. Bravo!
The day after the tragedy at the Brooklyn Bridge, I found the wounded ship at a dock on the Lower East Side. Mourners gathered. Mexican TV crews interviewed them. A flower shrine grew quickly.
NYC gems are everywhere very much including LES, one of the historic immigrant neighborhoods that remains an immigrant neighborhood. New York Public Library has more beautiful buildings than any other NYC builder.
Honor Fraser welcomed Janet & Martin Sheen and me to see our friend @Nadya new art at &honorfrasergallery. Fun dinner afterward with Martin & I the only ones unable to resist dessert.
Legendary reporter Bob Woodward (played by Robert Redford in movie of his 1st book) signing his new book about Biden’s “steady and purposeful leadership” after last night’s show in DC studio
