Elaine’s was certainly in its heyday in the early eighties when I worked for John Scanlon, but, odd to say, he was never part of that scene. I wonder why–everyone who hung there was someone with whom he would have aspired to associate. Over the years, I made a couple of appearances there–one or two …
I had a fun time the other night at First Anniversary Dinner of the Writers’ Center at Hunter College, which was held at Doubles at the Sherry Netherland Hotel. The best part was catching up with Bruce Jay Friedman, the maestro, and with Patty Marx, the dryly hilarious shopping correspondent of The New York. For …
I had a lot of fun yesterday at the annual Marymount Manhattan Writers’ Conference. First, I participated in a panel on Humor Writing hosted by my friend and benefactor Lewis Burke Frumkes, on which I was honored (a much-abused word, but in this case, totally appropriate) to join my friend Ben Cheever; Tony Hendra, whom …