Abel Ferrara, the ghoulishly looking American film director, whose film The Bad Lieutenant has been a perennial favorite ever since…
One evening in the late 1980s, during my time working at Cafe Nicholson's in Manhattan, I had a memorable encounter…
Around 1984, during my final year in high school, I was working at an Italian restaurant called Piero's on the…
In the early 2000s, one of Frank Sinatra's old stomping grounds was reborn when Jilly's reopened on 41 West 58th…
Fernando Arrabal, the Spanish playwright, poet, and film director, is one of the wackiest and zaniest people I've ever met.…
To Brazilians, the name Jorge Amado is to literature what Antonio Carlos Jobim is to Bossa Nova. In a career…
Some of my most memorable encounters at Trattoria Dell'Arte happened serendipitously. Like the time I met Abe Feder, one of…
Victor Posner, without a doubt, was the nastiest and the most corrupt financier I have ever met. He took corporate…
Ever since I read Gay Talese's collection of nonfiction writings in Fame and Obscurity, he has been one of my…
Hedy Lamarr was one of the most glamorous Hollywood film stars of the 30s and 40s. She was born in…
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