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Recalling days of yore & mine
To honor our new year, I checked old stuff that should’ve been discarded back when Julius Caesar was around.
Broadway? “Can-Can” with Gwen Verdon. Comedy? “The Seven Year Itch” with Eddie Albert. Drama — Deborah Kerr in “Tea and Sympathy” at the Barrymore. Atlantic City round trip: $3.80. The Pennsylvania — then the Statler — Tommy Dorsey. B’way and 48th had very in McGinnis restaurant — dancing and a $3.95 shore dinner.
Norman Vincent Peale’s Marble Collegiate Church did a special Watch Night Service. Toscanini’s “Carmen.” Capitol Theater? “Miss Sadie Thompson” with Rita Hayworth. TV went big — Steve Allen and Guy Lombardo at upscale Plaza — (now with a block full of Citi Bikes fronting it) — $24.
Looking back, think. Now, what could be better for New York City other than a return of de Blasio.
Alien book is orbiting
Seems we’re having visitors. Not from across our borders. From across our universe.
UFOs are now called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. Say that three times. New Amazon doc “The Age of Disclosure” is unearthing unearthly things. Filmmakers are now talking to Sean Hannity, Bret Baier, Joe Rogan. Producer Jay Stratton has a new HarperCollins book coming. For him the thing is personal.
Stratton: “We’re leading this research. We now know more than China and Russia.”
What’s in a name
Some 2026 kvetches, because who cares about these names:
Jake Gyllenhaal: “My last name gets butchered. In Swedish it means ‘golden hall.’ Once David Letterman called me ‘Jill’ and ‘Ham’ the whole time. Hollywood mispronounces me like ‘guile’ or ‘jilted.’ Neither’s the right way to try and land a part.”
Juliette Binoche: “People mangle my last name. Some pronounce it like ‘Binocue’ — same as a cue stick. It’s pronounced ‘Bee-nosh.’ I just smile and try to do my best interview.”
Rachel Weisz: “Irritating when people pronounce my name with a ‘W.’ It’s like ‘vice.’ Please!”
Renée Zellweger: “It’s pronounced phonetically but people mangle it. In America something about a ‘z’ is intimidating.”
John Leguizamo: “I’ve been called ‘legs’ and ‘Amo.’ Also ‘legs’ and ‘Gumbo.’ Doesn’t change. So now I go through a whole movie and never hear anyone actually mention my real name.”
Jacqueline Bisset: “I’ve given up trying to tell people it’s not French. Some p.r. person said it rhymes with ‘kiss it.’ That’s horribly embarrassing. I haven’t been able to shake that embarrassment for years. Tell people the ‘t’ is pronounced.”
German director Wim Wenders: “At a Yankee game I heard the name broadcast so I rushed over. It was guys selling hot dogs.”
Aida Turturro: “Anyone calls me Ada again I’ll scream. It’s pronounced like the opera. Someone mispronounces it once more I’ll strangle them.”
Neve Campbell: “The first name’s pronounced ‘Nehv’ not Nee-vee. I told that to an audience and they roared with approval.”
Today you have to watch out for pickpockets. You know what a pickpocket is? It’s a politician who takes your money without having to get elected.
Lots in NYC, kids, lots in NYC.