Sublime

(Curiously, one reason why Wilder was himself disappointed with the way this film turned out was that he originally wanted Armbruster Sr.'s longterm affair to have been with a male hotel bellhop, until studio executives dissuaded him.)

At the behest of his wife, Ann, he hired a designer to create www.delharris.com, then charged visitors $20 for a one-year membership that included (as written on the home page) “these great benefits”: an autographed photograph, an “official” Del’s Club membership card, a quarterly newsletter, and a birthday card. Fewer than 100 people subscribed.

Cast members, unlike writers, were each provided with a car and driver to get to the after-parties—more specifically, with a gigantic black Cadillac Escalade SUV—and I’d arranged to ride along with Henrietta and her wife, Lisa.

has to improvise.

Their first family home was a small house on Avenue V in the Sheepshead Bay area of Brooklyn. Shortly after the end of the war (Sid was registered for service, but not called up), they moved to a larger house in leafy Midwood.

He became a piece of very high-end, pricey human software with the nose of a bloodhound. There’s a now-famous story of him checking into a Vancouver hotel room that happened to be equipped with binoculars and had a view of a CN rail yard. Harrison spied a locomotive—number 5867—sitting idle. A half hour later, it was still there. He made a call and

Like he had done at CN, Harrison also visited the mail room, a place he believed sent profound signals about a company.