Love is A Many-Splendored Thing

5 years ago

Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson were two of the most loving couples I had ever seen together. They were madly…

The Art of Max

5 years ago

Max Roach was one of my favorite jazz musicians, and to me, one of its most consequential. Along with Charlie…

Rutger the Menace

5 years ago

Rutger Hauer was the most menacing actor I have ever met. In the mid to late 80s, I was living…

The Countess and the Baron

5 years ago

My last job in the restaurant business was at a beautiful Italian restaurant down in Tribeca called Scalini Fedeli, housed in…

Miller Time

5 years ago

In the mid-90s, Arthur Miller was overseeing the Broadway revival of his most famous play, A Death of a Salesman.…

Afternoons with a Faun

5 years ago

At the height of the yuppie craze in the 1980s, I was working at a small Sicilian restaurant called Baci…

A Family Affair

5 years ago

I started working at The Sea Grill at Rockefeller Center after a few restaurant stints elsewhere in the late 90s.…

Not Just a Tough Guy

5 years ago

One actor who made a great impression on me was Charles Bronson. He was the epitome of cool—terse, stoic, and…

Too Hot for Comfort

5 years ago

Another one of my favorite actors was the great Richard Widmark. Yes, he of the 1940s film noir and gangster…

Smooth Operators

5 years ago

For years, Sam Cohn was one of the most powerful Hollywood agents with an endless list of A-list celebrities that…

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