Category Archives: fame

Mistaken Hemingways

June 16, 2024 – 5:21 pm

Back in 1979 I ran into Margaux Hemingway at a disco. I introduced myself and complimented her on her role in MANHATTAN. “That was my sister.” We had a good laugh and a few drinks. Life is a laugh.

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May 5, 1978 – East Village – Journal

May 5, 2024 – 9:54 am

Kim, her sister Kyle, and I walked from their apartment on Bleecker Street in a heavy evening rain. The gutters swiftly swelled with the run-off. At Broadway Kim announced that she is having her first period after her abortion. The cramps are killing her, but she said, “I’ll feel better after a drink.” We carried […]

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Moby Dick Amnesia

August 28, 2023 – 11:13 am

Everyone of my generation was forced to read Heman Merville’s MOBY DICK. THe first line of this epic novel “Call me Ishmael” was burned into our memories and teachers spent days trying to decipher the meaning of author, but none of us were aware of MOBY DICK’s voyage in American Literature having only sold 3000 […]

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Sept 6, 1994 – Maine – Journal Entry

August 21, 2023 – 6:06 pm

I’ve spent the week with Willem, his wife Liz, his son Jack, and several of the Wooster Group up on Thompson Lake, Maine. Willem was extremely gracious and hospitable as was Liz, who previously had regarded me as an intrusion into their life. Both of us traveled through the yera. He to films and me […]

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15 SECONDS WITH ANDY WARHOL by Peter Nolan Smith

June 26, 2023 – 7:17 am

Andy Warhol quote: “What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink […]

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