LOTS OF STORIES HERE

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for old raspy voice]:

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CHECK IT OUT, 10PM EASTERN TONIGHT AUGUST 29TH

From Vicki Abelson: "Sure, he's an award-winning poet who's lived through the coolest of times, with the hippest of peoples, none groovier than Michael Lally, his fine self... he's played on screens big and small, written more books than I can count, collected praise and trophies out the wazoo... was very recently lauded by Hilaria and Alec Baldwin, besting any of that for me, this man changed more lives than he will ever know. Mine for one. We'll be talkin' and going there. Cannot wait to meet this man, I've known through words, pictures, and countless mutual friends.. tomorrow we take it in the reals and celebrate all that he is, including his, recently dropped latest, Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017, and an upcoming documentary on the man, in which we may possibly play a tiny part, if you fuckers tune-in, don't drop out, and ask some good damn questions tomorrow. I can't wait for this treasured Facebook friend to walk off the interweb and into my life.

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A FAVORITE POEM BY A FAVORITE POET: SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY

NEIL SIMON R.I.P.

I hung out with Neil Simon once in my Hollywood years. Carrie Fisher asked me to be her date for a New Year's party at Alana Stewart's, Rod's ex. I picked Carrie up in the little Colt station wagon I was driving that had no mats on the floor and you had to roll the windows up manually, wearing an '80s shoulder padded gray suit coat with an oil slick sheen to it over a black shirt. Carrie made a little sound like this wasn't what she expected but I was often cocky then, despite realities.

I needed that attitude when we got there and found most of the men wearing black tie tuxes or close to it. Alana's party room was like a night club with a bandstand and live band on it, and tables for four spread around. Carrie and I sat with Teri Garr, who we already knew, and Neil Simon joined us. I ate like a starving poet and probably talked too much, Carrie and Teri were very funny, as always, and Simon was sweet and seemed truly delighted with our company.

When no one would dance to the live music—because as Carrie pointed out when I asked, stars didn't want to not look less than perfect—and the food was gone, I suggested we move on to a party I knew of in an old house in "the flats" (Beverly Hills at the bottom of the hills) where a lot of "young Hollywood" would be, including friends of mine, even though I was in my forties by then.

At that party there was one room devoted entirely to dancing but so packed the dancing was minimalist. Simon did his best to be a part of it even though he seemed out of place and the oldest there, but still very attentive to the ladies in a gentlemanly way. During a break in the music, a young kid, in his late teens or early twenties, managed to get next to Simon to declare that he was a playwright too, and Simon did something I've only seen a few stars I've been around do, he talked to this young playwright like they were equals.

He asked him about his work and engaged him in a conversation about writing choices and humor and so on like they were old colleagues. There were other things that occurred that evening, but the Neil Simon part was in many ways the most memorable for me. I love it when someone whose work you admire turns out to be decent and kind-hearted.

AT A PROTEST MARCH TODAY

Took part in a march today protesting

the nomination of Kavanaugh for Supreme Court Justice

great to be a part of such a worthy cause

the tall one's me (next to me is friend Beth Boily)

without make up

QUOTE OF THE MOMENT

"John McCain and I were members of different generations, came from completely different backgrounds, and competed at the highest level of politics. But we shared, for all our differences, a fidelity to something higher – the ideals for which generations of Americans and immigrants alike have fought, marched, and sacrificed. We saw our political battles, even, as a privilege, something noble, an opportunity to serve as stewards of those high ideals at home, and to advance them around the world. We saw this country as a place where anything is possible – and citizenship as our patriotic obligation to ensure it forever remains that way.

Few of us have been tested the way John once was, or required to show the kind of courage that he did. But all of us can aspire to the courage to put the greater good above our own. At John’s best, he showed us what that means. And for that, we are all in his debt. Michelle and I send our most heartfelt condolences to Cindy and their family."

—Barack Obama

YEP YEP YEP