Sublime

Elaine Stritch,

tolerating in her life for years: “This whole thing is dead to me anyway. It died with Richard.”

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.

The Marvin Hamlisch. Who’d been accepted into the Juilliard School Pre-College Division shortly before he turned seven years old. Who’d started his incredible music career as the rehearsal pianist for Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl and written a song for Liza Minnelli’s debut album when he was a teenager. Who’d written the score for A Chorus Line a

A Little Princess (greatest vindication story ever), The Golden Compass (greatest animal character ever), and Little Women

Lori Elle and Robia LaMorte,

couldn’t waste another minute on “artifice and bullshit.”