mean now? Wait a minute, maybe we should—”

Martha Graham

Bob Denver, who played Gilligan, was an early idol, my fandom only tarnished when I saw him have a meltdown over a last-minute rewrite and upend a watercooler onto the floor of the soundstage.

stuffy with the stink of stale smoke and my

friend’s uncle had just been elected

Dad compared himself and Lenny with Gerald and Sara Murphy, socialites who entertained the great artists of the Lost Generation on the French Riviera, and on whom Fitzgerald based Nicole and Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night.

mean now? Wait a minute, maybe we should—”

a shot on you, kid.” Of all my “this

stuffy with the stink of stale smoke and my