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Archive for November, 2012
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Dick
Posted on November 19, 2012 | No CommentsOh, for the love of Richard Burton! I don’t mean the jewels, the private planes and yachts that he showered onto his most public love, Elizabeth Taylor, but the sheer luminous lust of him, and the language! In his rollicking, brilliant “Diaries,”... -
The Au Pair as Movie Star and The Movie Star as Art Student. NYC. 11.8.12 and 11.13.12
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Debutantes: On Frank Moore
Posted on November 8, 2012 | 2 CommentsThese remarks were delivered at New York University on November 7, 2012, about the artist Frank Moore, who painted the author and himself as imagined children in his 1992 painting, “Debutantes.” I am very grateful to Lynn Gumpert at the... -
I Can’t Help It
Posted on November 6, 2012 | 1 CommentBut every time I vote, I start to cry, and it suddenly occurred to me that the voting booths reminded me of glory holes, and I missed our old friends again. Of course the tears commemorate things that go way...
