Larry and I used to play a game called "Celebrity Near Sightings" when we lived in L.A. It was pretty unusual to be out and about and not sight a celebrity. But Larry had a propensity for thinking someone was someone when they weren't. Hence the "Near Sightings". We've continued to play this in New York, where real sightings just aren't so frequent, I think more because New Yorkers have less need to be seen. LA is all about being seen.
Walking through Soho last night, Larry actually had a real celebrity sighting, and since he's been taking his new digicam everywhere, he actually caught a snap of Karl Lagerfeld on the move.
We'd been to an opening at Woodward Gallery, for Jo Ellen Van Ouwerker: Somewhere in Time. Jo Ellen used to train with us at Seido Karate. The crowd was peppered with artists, white collar and professional boxers from her husband's famed Gleason's Gym and the ever present little old NYC lady who needs a glass of wine and a toilet.
I'm fortunate to be able to visit the gallery on lunch hours from my Soho freelance gig. The work is air brushed, with various refrences to vintage photography and techniques, and she has begun to frame some of the prints and originals with hand made tin frames done in Mexico by some of the last surviving craftsman of this time- honored metal smithing method.
Being Cinco de Mayo, we tried to have a bite at Harry's in the Village, but not up for the 45 minute wait, we did take out and curled up in front of CSI for dinner.
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