Cross Town Thoughts
Riveting How To Fix a Drug Scandal. Documentary set in Northampton, Amherst, Springfield, and Boston Massachusetts. Also, Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood is entertaining with great acting and clothes. Both Netflix.
Downton Abbey movie on HBO starting tonight. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt movie with originals and Daniel Radcliffe on Netflix. Adapted from one of my favorite books, Defending Jacob by William Landay, now on Apple+ with Michelle Dockery.
May 15 Reunions album by Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit.
Have yet to meet a Biden supporter. Voters. Yes. Supporters. No.
And. Why is Biden hidin’ in the bunker? Trump’s trumpeting the re-opening of America. Guess who’ll win? Only the virus knows.
Lure Fishbar in Soho. What a difference almost a year makes. Can’t wait for a real hug again. Restaurants, too. Until then. Always happy to be mAd Ben’s mother.
A masked embrace. Tailgate cocktails on the caranda. Creative fun.
Et. Merci pour les jolies fleurs mon fils.
Rodrigo Márquez is the son of Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez, Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.
Rodrigo writes a letter to his late father in today’s NYTimes. He wonders what Gabriel would think about the current coronavirus given his plots around an insomnia pandemic and cholera. Perhaps that luck and fate determine whether one suffers and dies alone or surrounded by love.
Ironically, Rodrigo’s film Four Good Days about addiction was screened at Sundance this past January where it is said the coronavirus may have had the earliest detected spread in the U.S.
Ingenuity. Creativity. Margarita. Margararita.
Either Way. Feliz Cinco de Mayo. UWS Fuerte.
Not much. Fresh TV content is mostly done. Daytime. Primetime. Even Jeopardy! Until productions go back into operation, it’s all re-runs all the time. Okay. One good newish series. Unorthodox. A slice of life in a fringe Jewish cult with a great performance by an elfin powerhouse.
Biden. An old pol denying culturally-accepted behavior in the old timey days. Nothing new there. #MeToo oozing hypocrisy. New blood. Please.
Even ordered a long-lauded book. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. Never appealed. Yet. Was running out of options. So glad I did. One of the best reads in years.
No. Not botox.
But. Two nurses from Alabama came to the City to work on the front lines. The West Side Rag learned that they were paying their own rent to stay nearby on the UWS. So. They did a story and donated $200 to start a GoFundMe. Within 45 minutes their $9,800 goal had been reached. Community.
Also got to dress up for the first time in months. To make a video for a family event. Plus. Lots of restaurants are re-opening for take-out and delivery. So. Yay.
Tara Reade. Mary Bruce. Hillary. What do these women have in common? Joe’s exit ramp. To jettison the increasingly weak candidate.
Tara. Biden’s accuser. Mary. Respected congressional correspondent for ABC News who covered the Kavanaugh hearings. Bruce is now investigative reporting on Reade’s accusations. And didn’t get a lot of pushback from The View crew. Hillary is perched on her broomstick ready to swoop in when Joe is deemed too toxic to be the nominee.
Clinton-Cuomo? No. He’d never take VP.
Blue Angels.
Thunderbirds.
Salute to those on the front lines.
Blustery Sunday. So. What’s new? Looking forward to Tiger Woods. Phil Mickelson. Tom Brady. Peyton Manning. Charity Golf Match on TNT.
Rolling Stones new original song, Living in a Ghost Town. No Filter tour canceled. No Filter Instagram exposé by Sarah Frier on the way.
HBO’s Bad Education with Allison Janney & Hugh Jackman was good. On SNL. Brad Pitt as Dr. Fauci great. Miley Cyrus, too. Someone needs to do a wellness check on Bill Maher. Very depressed. Speaking of which. Last episode of Homeland series tonight.
Side Trek . NYC 