| I will consider taking you up on the tape.....I thought the Out of Towners piled it on a little too much, but it was pretty amusing. Great story! I saw Lemmon when driving through Beverly Hills. He was standing on a street corner, looking indecisive, like he wasn't sure where he wanted to go. I got a big kick just out of the little "slice of life"....Do you know the Syrian parlor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (18th century)? Once, my wife and I were standing there, and looked up to see Michael York (formerly of Cabaret, now best known from the Austin Powers movies) gesticulating excitedly while talking to a guard about it....In the Houlihan's across from Lincoln Center, we were having dinner with my son, and next to us Dabney Coleman sat with a date. He was in formal wear, so I guess he was going to an opera or concert opening. The funny thing was, I couldn't figure out what to do. I didn't want to bother him, but I didn't want to make him to think no one recognized him. I never quite figured how to handle it.....These are just a few "sightings", nothing as good as yours. I did meet Carol Channing once, though, at the National Theater. She was doing Lorelei, a new stage presentation of Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend, and I had just finished playing the male lead in a high school production of Hello Dolly. She heard about the production (probably a parent), and invited some of us to meet her at the door to the back stage area. She had an enormous head, with stunning. wide eyes. She was terribly tall, and her dramatic aureole of hair made her seem even taller and larger. She was very nice to us....... |
