The Gritty King of New York

4 years ago

Abel Ferrara, the ghoulishly looking American film director, whose film The Bad Lieutenant has been a perennial favorite ever since…

Tipping the Scales of Justice for the Rich and Infamous

4 years ago

One evening in the late 1980s, during my time working at Cafe Nicholson's in Manhattan, I had a memorable encounter…

A Silent Slugger

5 years ago

Around 1984, during my final year in high school, I was working at an Italian restaurant called Piero's on the…

The Second Coming of Jilly’s

5 years ago

In the early 2000s, one of Frank Sinatra's old stomping grounds was reborn when Jilly's reopened on 41 West 58th…

The Wonderfully Wacky World of Fernando Arrabal

5 years ago

Fernando Arrabal, the Spanish playwright, poet, and film director, is one of the wackiest and zaniest people I've ever met.…

Jorge Amado and His $250,000 Advance

5 years ago

To Brazilians, the name Jorge Amado is to literature what Antonio Carlos Jobim is to Bossa Nova. In a career…

Murder, He Wrote

5 years ago

Some of my most memorable encounters at Trattoria Dell'Arte happened serendipitously. Like the time I met Abe Feder, one of…

The Financier and His Attorney

5 years ago

Victor Posner, without a doubt, was the nastiest and the most corrupt financier I have ever met. He took corporate…

Looking for Gay

5 years ago

Ever since I read Gay Talese's collection of nonfiction writings in Fame and Obscurity, he has been one of my…

A Beautiful and Brainy Woman

5 years ago

Hedy Lamarr was one of the most glamorous Hollywood film stars of the 30s and 40s. She was born in…

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