Friday, September 15, 2006
Iconoclast reform
A new season opens at the Metropolitan Opera in a couple of weeks. Max, myself and his mother have tickets for opening night. And in the New York Times today reports what a star-studded event this will be:
“A bevy of stars — some invited by Mr. Gelb himself, to lend luster to the evening — have said they will come.
They include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sean Connery, Goldie Hawn, Anjelica Huston, Iman, David Bowie, Meg Ryan, Al Roker, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and an offstage Soprano, James Gandolfini. Major figures in the performing arts world, too, have said they are coming.”
So expect me to rub elbows with these folks next Monday – I’ll let you know how it is (as if I wouldn’t). But for those that are not inside, you will have something to watch that night – it will be broadcast live in Time Square and in the Lincoln Center plaza. This is all part of the push from the new general manager to expose a temple of high art to the mainstream.
Who know if it’ll work but it will certainly make people watching all the better at the galas.
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On another note, just got back from Chicago. God I love that city. Seeing old friends, hanging out in the old bars (which I’m beginning to feel a little old in now), and seeing the family are great. Friday night I got in late so I just had a late dinner with Melody, Kira, Neena and Deeter in the burbs by the airport.
Saturday was really something. Went out with Gregg, Neena and Anthony in the city. Drank a lot, ate a lot, laughed a lot.. The real kicker was Sunday night, which I thought would be relatively lame. But a simple dinner turned into doing shots at 1 am and crawling myself into a flight the following morning. So I took the next day off and thought I would recuperate when Melody came to New York on business. Met up with her at Rose’s Turn and drank like the world was ending, the went into work the following day with a near-death hangover. `GOD!!
News to all: Finally got home internet access (instead of stealing my neighbors wireless) and – get this – cable. OMG the world is ending!!! Let the world note that I am connected to the outside world.
“A bevy of stars — some invited by Mr. Gelb himself, to lend luster to the evening — have said they will come.
They include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Sean Connery, Goldie Hawn, Anjelica Huston, Iman, David Bowie, Meg Ryan, Al Roker, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and an offstage Soprano, James Gandolfini. Major figures in the performing arts world, too, have said they are coming.”
So expect me to rub elbows with these folks next Monday – I’ll let you know how it is (as if I wouldn’t). But for those that are not inside, you will have something to watch that night – it will be broadcast live in Time Square and in the Lincoln Center plaza. This is all part of the push from the new general manager to expose a temple of high art to the mainstream.
Who know if it’ll work but it will certainly make people watching all the better at the galas.
- - - -
On another note, just got back from Chicago. God I love that city. Seeing old friends, hanging out in the old bars (which I’m beginning to feel a little old in now), and seeing the family are great. Friday night I got in late so I just had a late dinner with Melody, Kira, Neena and Deeter in the burbs by the airport.
Saturday was really something. Went out with Gregg, Neena and Anthony in the city. Drank a lot, ate a lot, laughed a lot.. The real kicker was Sunday night, which I thought would be relatively lame. But a simple dinner turned into doing shots at 1 am and crawling myself into a flight the following morning. So I took the next day off and thought I would recuperate when Melody came to New York on business. Met up with her at Rose’s Turn and drank like the world was ending, the went into work the following day with a near-death hangover. `GOD!!
News to all: Finally got home internet access (instead of stealing my neighbors wireless) and – get this – cable. OMG the world is ending!!! Let the world note that I am connected to the outside world.
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