Angela Lansbury handed away on the age of 96 this week.
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire by way of ZUMA Press
I knew Angela Lansbury endlessly. She and I lived on the identical New York block. She was in my house and I — spending a lot time in Ballymacoda, Eire — nicely knew hers. A easy home. There everybody left her alone the place she liked to backyard and speak about her daughter Deirdre who was a bartender.
Even our mayors obtained loopy round her. Fiorello La Guardia and spouse Marie have been to discuss Angela at a big-time elegant ballroom. They arrived in time. The one drawback? They confirmed on the incorrect lodge. Then John Lindsay and spouse Mary have been honored company at a big-time awards evening for Angela. They wound up on the incorrect social gathering and, as Mary informed me later, “It was an amazing group. We stayed two hours.”
Because the world fussed over her longtime TV collection “Homicide She Wrote,” she informed me: “Would you imagine this was written initially for Jean Stapleton?”
The novelty of a deranged prez
James Patterson’s a prolific writer. As we mentioned his newest e-book, “Blowback,” he was already writing his subsequent one.
“It’s a loopy time in our historical past. The concept of an unbalanced chief — and we’ve obtained sufficient of them on this planet at present: Venezuela, Brazil, Korea, Russia, Iran — I believed it’s a scary however plausible thought for an American president to be a bit of off his rocker.”
Yeah. Like that’s not perhaps unfolding now?
“I've FBI, CIA, Clinton, Hillary, Bush folks I can speak to. I do know lots of them. Clinton’s on my free checklist. So’s Bush. Additionally my three sisters.
“To me authenticity’s necessary so I take advantage of co-authors. I see their pages each two weeks as a result of it’s simpler to assessment 30 pages than to rewrite 400. A co-writer’s for 2 causes. I need their ideas. See in the event that they add good scenes. I write a 60-to-80-page define, then I've them contribute.
“Pay attention, I write on daily basis, seven days every week. As soon as I did 4 books in a single month.”
Speaking turkey
Holidays are upon us. Time for associates who don’t pay again, kin no person likes, free eaters who by no means seize checks — they’re all coming.
That can assist you serve turkeys to those turkeys, right here’s a menu from the early days of superexpensive superfamous Stork Membership — as soon as the go-to for Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Princess Grace, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor and a bushel and a peck of very VIP Ps.
Their 1947 dinner. Little necks: $1.40. Cream of tomato soup: 90 cents. Fruit salad: $3.50. Beef stew: $3.75. Escargot: $4.25. String beans: 90 cents. French fries: 75 cents. Need mashed? It’s costly — 90 cents. Chinese language? A moo goo gai pan was $4.50. Rice pudding went for 90 cents. Tortoni got here cheaper — 85 cents.
Slip ’n’ slide
Onto different issues like inflation. At-home model ballet slippers we simply ordered from Amazon. Worth: $6. Two days later a second pair was ordered. Identical model, coloration, dimension. Worth: $24. Amazon now payments Amazon costs.
Republicans communicate evil about poor outdated Biden. Not good. Simply because the opposite day he bent to tie his shoelace after which, whereas he was down there, tried to think about a couple of different issues to do.
Oy, Biden, solely in New York, Delaware, DC and the remainder of the states.
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