Monday, May 23, 2011

Brief Encounters

Back in my long hair hippie art school days while living in NYC. I was walking alone with my art portfolio. Andy Warhol and some of his entourage were coming out of a building.  Andy spotted me , (an obvious art student with the portfolio and all)  and starred at me for a time. I was taken back, but to shy to approach the icon and his troupe.   Lucky for me!
After Art school I lived in the Gramercy section of NYC with my cousin John Caglione (Oscar winner for his special effects make-up on Dick Tracy). At the time , John was working as make-up artist for the original Saturday Night Live (remember the cone heads ) . I went backstage with my brother John and my cousin John and bumped into John Belushi in the back stairwell at NBC on the way up to the make-up room. Everyone was looking for John B.  ,  Dan Ackroyd was frantic. I was introduced briefly. John was just being John.


NEXT WEEK , BILL MURRY AND BETTE MIDLER