JULY
18, 2007 --
LPR was heading
home, early Sunday (July 8) on Central Park West after observing
the scene outside clubs on West 27th and 28th streets, spending
some time in Grand, on East 58th, and then spending some time in
the 24-hour Apple store on Fifth Avenue, between 59th and 58th
streets.
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A
Saturday night food vendor, corner 58th and Madison. Show
biz agents,
take note. |
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A
Saturday Night worker on Madison Avenue
between 58th and 59th Streets. |
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The
line starts here - on the corner of Central Park and 81st
Street … |
Once again, there
were people spending the night on the park side of Central Park
West, from 81st Street north. Six summers
ago, the
line had formed for tickets to "The Seagull."
This time,
the line was for tickets to the last performance of "Romeo
and Juliet" at the Delacorte Theater.
The accompanying photos show the line after it returned to the
park at about 6 A.M. from Central Park West (Central Park is closed
between
1 A.M. and 6 A.M.).
After the July 8 performance, at about 11.45 P.M., LPR noticed
Lynn Redgrave, and then Vanessa Redgrave, at the corner where,
about 21
hours earlier, LPR noticed people waiting along Central Park West
to re-enter the park for tickets to "Romeo and Juliet," the
play the Redgrave sisters had just seen.
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Lynn
Redgrave, with sister Vanessa Redgrave in the background … |
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Vanessa
Redgrave, July 8th |
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The
sisters Redgrave … |
LPR did not attend
the performance, waiting outside the Delacorte, trying to hear
snatches of dialogue over the PA system. LPR was
surprised -- disappointed, actually -- to find young people serving
as Delacorte
security actively standing between the LPR camera and celebs gathering
at the theater's entrance.
As it turned out, had the Delacorte people not been so antagonistic
to First Amendment principles -- and on public ground -- LPR would
not have caught these images of the sisters Redgrave.
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LPR
did manage to get some photos outside the Delalcorte stage door,
including one of Jane Krakowski speaking with Camryn Manheim
(who played Juliet's nurse).
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Jane
Krakowski, Camryn Manheim and friends … |
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Blocking
the LPR camera … |
Somewhat past
this midsummer, the Delacorte will present "A Midsummer
Night's Dream." To LPR's knowledge, no one dies in this
play.
Whether
the First Amendment will be in better shape outside the stage than
it was late July 8, LPR will have to see. And LPR plants to post
more photos of the "Romeo and Juliet" line taken when
the tickets were distributed -- shortly after 1 p.m., and later
that evening.
PS for NYC Parks Commish Benepe:
BY THE WAY: LPR also was denied First Amendment protection in Bryant Park, when
a crowd gathered to watch the Yankees on a screen playing an away game in Toronto.
LPR wanted to get a photo of the crowd and was directed to the media area between
the park and the cafe next to the public library. Here, a Yankees' security person
chased me away, threatening use of force -- notwithstanding my NYPD press ID.
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View
of the line in Central Park, early Sunday morning, July
8th, looking towards the Delacorte. |
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The
line in Central Park, early in the AM of July 8th … |
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Central
Park - early AM on July 8th … |
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Sleeping
in Central Park, early July 8th… |
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NYPD
in Central Park, early AM on July 8th standing just below
the Delacorte theater. The people in the photo are below
the head of the line. |
LPR is still covered by copyright?
LPR was told during the Romeo and Juliet intermission that Kevin Kline
and Vanessa Redgrave were in the audience.
After the performance and skirmish with staff re: photo taking, I found
myself standing next to Lynn Redgrave, and then Vanessa on the corner
where,
some 21 hours earlier, I noticed the start of ticket line for the last
Romeo and Juliet, calling to mind the overnight lines along Central
Park West for The Seagull, whose cast included Kevin Kline. |
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