Category Archives: 80s

THE END OF YOUTH by Peter Nolan Smith

August 13, 2019 – 10:59 pm

Subletting your apartment is tricky in New York. The supers are snitches for the landlords, so subleasees have to live with utter discretion in your flat. Swedes are the best, since they are respectful of property unlike Americans. In the early 80s I moved to Paris. Actuel Magazine offered me a job at their nightclub. […]

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In Heaven Above

August 11, 2019 – 9:49 am

Back in Paris during the 80s some of my friends were involved in fashion. World-class Claude Montana and Azzedine Alaia invited me to the their pret-de-porter shows and I was lucky enough to have known the most beautiful women in the world. Few were more exotic than Marpessa. Half-Dutch and half-Surinam, her beauty was frightening, […]

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FAMOUS FOR NEVER by Peter Nolan Smith

July 9, 2019 – 1:40 pm

New York City teetered toward the edge of bankruptcy during America’s economic stagnation of the mid-70s. The Daily News splashed the headline FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD, after the president refused to bailout New York. The mayor was forced to slash every department’s budget to the bone and the city collapsed into a ruin rivaling […]

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Where Is Tank Man?

June 4, 2019 – 9:19 am

Thirty years ago a lone Chinese protester blocked a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Cangan Blvd. June 5, 1989 in front of the Beijing Hotel one days after the Tiananmen massacre. Cameras and videos captured the young man’s defiance of governmental power. Steel versus flesh. After a conversation with the driver of the […]

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ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION By Peter Nolan Smith

April 16, 2019 – 7:13 am

John Guare in his play SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION contended that everyone in the world was connected to everyone in the world by six people. Sometimes even less. My sister-in-law had worked at the CIA for George Bush, whose father met Hitler, so I’m connected to Der Fuhrer by four degrees of separation. The distance […]

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