STARTING ELECTION DAY WITH A BANG
Cara and I spent the morning with our friends Paul and Nadia Lindstrom shooting clays at the splendid facility at Orvis Sandanona in Milbrook. We had a lot of fun, especially Cara, who got to drive a golf cart.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
In the days before the 1960 presidential election, John F. Kennedy appeared before an adoring, cheering throng at the old Boston Garden. “I do not run for the office of the Presidency after fourteen years in the Congress with any expectation that it is an empty or an easy job. I run for the Presidency …
MORE ON “WHEN DISNEY RULED AMERICA”
The writer Lynn Phillips, who a few days ago requested a copy of the article “When Disney Ruled America” that I wrote for Spy, has written with her comments: “The article does indeed live up. Particularly once Eisner gets into power.The writing has an antic energy – a feeling of rushing faster and faster down …
HEY JOE–WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE
Since the summer, I’ve pretty regularly been watching Joe Scarborough and his crew on Morning Joe on MSNBC. He’s pretty good–a middle-of-the-road, non-doctrinaire conservative–although he does have a tendency to overtalk his guests and especially his co-host, the long-suffering Mika Brzensinski. Joe has been pretty hard to take the last couple of weeks, as though …
PROFILED IN PIF
“No editor or publisher ever wakes up in the morning, looks out his window, and scans the landscape for a brilliant writer who’s just too shy to put himself or herself forward. It’s a put yourself forward business, at every level.” Hey–that’s me talking, in an interview with Derek Alger in pif magazine, a very …
WATCH ON THE RYAN
Lunch yesterday was provided by my pal Ryan D’Agostino, one of the stalwarts at Esquire. We ate in the Hearst employees’ cafeteria, which is located in the very cool atrium of the newish Hearst Building on Eighth Avenue. An excellent amenity. Ryan is excited about his new book, Rich Like Them, which will be published …
COMPLEX CRUDUP
At the very charming Cafe Cafe on Broome Street yesterday, I had the pleasure of interviewing the very smart and cooperative actor Billy Crudup for a cover story in an upcoming issue of Best Life. Crudup talked a lot of about acting and the actor’s life. “I like complexity,” he says. My kind of guy.
AMERICAN FERVOUR
At the Burns Center Monday night, Ginny and I were part of an audience that premiered American Fervour, one of a four-part BBC series by Professor Simon Schama called American History: The Future that will debut in January. Monday’s episode was about the intersection of religion and politics in America, and would probably be a …
A TALE OF TWO PRESIDENTS
Around noon on a brilliantly sunny Monday (the 27th) in Union Square Park, a robust and multidimentional, if all-black image of the first president overlooks a flat, multicolored image of the first black, 44th overall president.
BLUE RIBBON GIRL
In the early hours of Sunday morning (the 26th), in the murky riding shed at Chickory Meadow Farm, Cara won her first blue ribbon, finishing first in equitation among her classmates. She also competed in jumping events. Good job, Cara–congratulations!