In the film The Girlfriend Experience (have not seen the adapted TV series), the call girl does this with clients.

The sketch artist is missing Jeanne Moreau, RIP.

Cynthia Nixon second on bottom right, next to Kristy McNichol.

He’s tall like James Comey!

Ben is grandson to Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz too! Fascinating family.

So glad to have a context in which to tell it. When I mentioned it to friends after the fact, the Tori Spelling/husband thing didn’t even ring a bell.

Saw them at the zoo once, with the gaggle of kids, among them an infant. Tori seemed to focus on the kids and having a nice time. The husband kept looking around to see if anyone noticed them, hoping for pararazzi, making a big show of lifting the baby high to see the seals, etc.

Early 90s Keanu magic: old friend was obsessed w/him, often searching the general Sunset Strip area for a sighting. This friend talked me into driving him to Chateau Marmont for a party in hopes that Keanu would be there. The party had already ended. On the way back down to parking garage, the elevator stopped at…

Now that is work.

Going to my dad’s funeral right now, so I don’t want to be hating anything. I was more celebrating Bootsy, & Prince. Take care.

As he said at a live show once, “You can’t fake the funk.”

Thank you for confirming this for me!

Let’s go

And Bootsy Collins for this track in particular

I love “This Christmas,” though it makes me cry. Something in Donny Hathaway’s voice, so hopeful and exquisite, I’m sad he died so young.

On William Wyler, director of The Collector:

In the House, Maxine Waters has this kind of shaky voice, that makes her seem unsure, but then she unleashes the power! Scares the boys.