Abel Ferrara, the ghoulishly looking American film director, whose film The Bad Lieutenant has been a perennial favorite ever since I first saw it in the early 90s, especially for Harvey Keitel’s riveting tour de force performance, is one of the most eccentric and cryptic figures I’ve met. From his fertile mind, has poured a ...
One evening in the late 1980s, during my time working at Cafe Nicholson’s in Manhattan, I had a memorable encounter with none other than F. Lee Bailey. This legendary legal giant had built a formidable career spanning over half a century, representing a host of notorious and infamous miscreants. Bailey first captured my attention during ...
Diana Ross
David Rockefeller
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy
Al Pacino
Max Roach
Natasha Richardson & Liam Neeson
Sam Cohn
Arthur Miller
Charles Bronson
Tanaquil Le Clercq
Sammy Davis Jr.
Éric de Rothschild
Tom Jones
Jackie Onassis
Keith Jarrett
Richard Widmark
George Balanchine and Tanaquil Le Clerq
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