Abel Ferrara, the ghoulishly looking American film director, whose film The Bad Lieutenant has been a perennial favorite ever since…
Some of my most memorable encounters at Trattoria Dell'Arte happened serendipitously. Like the time I met Abe Feder, one of…
I always thought Sam Shepard would have made a terrific Marlboro man—sans mustache—had his life not taken the career path…
Raquel Welch was—and still is—one of the most beautiful women I have ever met. I had a crush on her…
Jeanne Moreau was one of my favorite actresses. When she was in town, she often came to dine at Trattoria…
Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson were two of the most loving couples I had ever seen together. They were madly…
Rutger Hauer was the most menacing actor I have ever met. In the mid to late 80s, I was living…
I started working at The Sea Grill at Rockefeller Center after a few restaurant stints elsewhere in the late 90s.…
One actor who made a great impression on me was Charles Bronson. He was the epitome of cool—terse, stoic, and…
When Tishman Speyer bought Rockefeller Center—previously owned by the Japanese Mitsubishi Estate—Jerry Speyer decided to overhaul the entire complex and…
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