Here’s a little item that appeared earlier today on The Huffington Post: “In April 2005, police swarmed the U.S. Capitol to confront an erratic Australian man, carrying two suitcases, who they feared was a suicide bomber. After blowing up one of the bags, officers realized he was harmless. The police never noticed the two nervous …
Sometimes good things happen to good people. For a couple of years in the early nineties it was my good luck to work at Spy magazine and to sit in a cubicle located between cubicles occupied by two wonderful people, Joanne Gruber to the east, and Jim Collins to the west. Jim–funny, smart, unflinchingly decent, …
Had a lovely time today talking to Matthew Weiner, the Executive Producer of Mad Men, the most excellent AMC series. I was talking to Weiner for USA Weekend about The Apartment, the Billy Wilder classic now in a Collectors’ Edition DVD. Weiner was so smart and articulate about the film, and very generous with his …
I was thrilled to receive a note from my old friend from college Ron Hull, who had seen The Coup mentioned in LaSalle’s alumni notes. Ron, as it turns out, is Senior Counsel at Underberg & Kessler, a law firm in Rochester NY, where he specializes environmental law. In 2007, Ron was named by Law …