PlayPals

PlayPals

This is a big week for Apple Girl. I will reveal more by week’s end. In the meantime, I’m delighted to share this photograph of me with two of my pals from PlayGroup. They have been as elusive in my attempts to capture them as the Tasmanian Tiger. The...

Overheard at the Public Theatre

Last Friday night Simi and I attended a fabulous production which I will write about shortly, but not now: I’m wrapping up for the day at Simi’s office and am heading uptown for a game of tennis at the 96th Street courts in Riverside Park. Sigh. Reading...

The Exterminator

On the door to my apartment is a little lever that any visitor who has made it through the security door at the front of my building can depress to let me know they’ve made it up the stairs after I’ve buzzed them in. It’s excruciatingly loud....

Contraband in Central Park

Last night I played host and tourist all at once, by having dinner at Tavern on the Green, a dining institution for more than 70 years, with friends of my parents who are visiting New York this week. Located just inside Central Park at 67th Street, the entrance to the...
Girls on film

Girls on film

Thursday was an unusual but very interesting professional experience for me, when I was a film production assistant for the day. The film in question is a documentary by my client Simi Linton about war and disability, which is in the very early stages of its...

The Book of Paris

It’s been difficult to avoid Paris Hilton. Cable news channels had constant coverage of yesterday’s bizarre events – in which Paris was released into home arrest wearing an electronic monitor, then taken before another court which ruled that she must...