The Actor’s Studio

IT’S ONLY RITA BEING RITA

Posted on July 2, 2018July 2, 2018 by anywhereiwander

(a memoir of an enduring but unlikely friendship) “Who was that?” I asked when, after chatting for over an hour, Joe finally replaced the receiver. I was 19, newly arrived in New York, and had just moved into a studio above Carnegie Hall with a man 25 years my senior, Joseph X Dever, the very … Continue reading IT’S ONLY RITA BEING RITA

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CARNEGIE HALL DAYS

Posted on January 10, 2018January 10, 2018 by anywhereiwander

My new home in New York was a studio above Carnegie Hall I shared with my boyfriend, society columnist Joseph X Dever. Our neighbours in some of the other studios included the jazz pianist and cabaret singer Bobby Short, the Italian impresario Gian Carlo Menotti, the famous milliner and NY street photographer Bill Cunningham, the … Continue reading CARNEGIE HALL DAYS

Posted in 1960s, Bill Cunningham, Carnegie Hall, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Vanderbilt, Jeannie Campbell, John F Kennedy, Norman Mailer, Richard Avedon, The Actor's StudioTagged #MeToo, 1960s, Bill Cunningham, Bobby Short, Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Hall Studios, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Vanderbilt, Jeannie Campbell, Marlon Brando, Norman Mailer, Richard Avedon2 Comments

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