APRIL 24,
2005 --
At
the southern corners of Central Park…
It looks as if Columbus
Circle, at the southwest corner of Central Park will soon re-open.
On April 18, crews were literally
pouring topsoil around the statute of Christopher Columbus. And at the southeast
corner of the park, at Fifth Avenue, General William T. Sherman looked resplendent
on a bright spring day.
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Columbus
Circle, April 18.
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Is
this worker putting the finishing touches on Columbus Circle?
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Note
the pigeon on Gen. Sherman's horse. The statue is located three
long blocks from Columbus Circle which seems to LPR to be almost
ready.
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APRIL 24,
2005 --
A
Media Panel …
New York Law School
presented a panel, April 21, "Covering the Big Case: From O.J.
Simpson to Michael Jackson."
Panelists included Dan Abrams, NBC News Chief Legal Correspondent and host
of MSNBC's "The Abrams Report." Mr. Abrams decried "the level
of arrogance on the part of some lawyers" who refuse to
speak with the media.
This writer, during the question period, cited his experience talking on camera
with a WNBC reporter, and thought that Mr. Abrams would be interested in seeing
the entire tape compared to the snippet that was used on air. Mr. Abrams said
that he was not referring to talking on TV.
He also said, in part, that some tv reporters are "horrible," "terrible," Another
panelist, criminal defense attorney Mickey Sherman noted that "The Abrams
Report" is live -- saying if lawyers go on TV they should appear on live
broadcasts.
LPR urges Mr. Abrams and other justice journalists to spend some time covering
the very small cases -- heard at PVB.
The other panelists at the New York Law School program were Adrienne M. Wheeler,
of Inside Edition, and Adam Liptak, national legal correspondent for The New
York Times. Panel moderator was Lis Wiehl, legal analyst at Fox News.
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Dan
Abrams, host of MSNBC's "The Abrams Report," seen
here speaking at a New York Law School Panel Discussion.
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APRIL
17, 2005 --
Stadium Update…
The Daily News
reported. April 16 that the Yankees will have a new 50 thousand
seat stadium (with some 60 luxury boxes) in 2009. The new stadium
will be on the site of the track in the foreground of this view
of The Original Yankee Stadium.
APRIL
17, 2005 --
Just wondering...
Didn't those polls testing public sentiment about ending the life of Terri Schiavo
amount to a kind of referendum on whether a person lives and dies? LPR is not
aware of a poll question asking whether polls about ending a person's life by
denying nourishment are themselves a form of intervention. LPR believes that
the tragic Terri Schiavo effectively received the death penalty. Apparently we
have no longer have a consensus on the meaning of mercy.
APRIL
17, 2005 --
Kerrey for Mayor?
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May
23, 2004 -- Commissioner Bob Kerrey, President of New
School University, where the 911 hearings were held.
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New School University
President Bob Kerrey is said to be thinking aboiut running for mayor
of New York City. The former U.S. senator is shown here as member
of the 911 Commission, at the hearings, last May, in New School University.
LPR supports anyone willing to oppose pharaohnoia in government (and
to support a humane Parking Violations Bureau).
APRIL 17,
2005 --
Broadway
Show League Pre-Season
The Broadway Show League opened its pre-season, April 14, in Central Park.
New teams include All Shook Up, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Steel and Glass (combining
Steel Magnolias and The Glass Menagerie). Returning teams include, Fiddler
on the Roof, Wicked, Lion King,
Beauty and the Beast, Blue Man Group, Rent, Hairspray, Playwrights Horizons
--and of course last year's champs in the show division: The Producers.
LPR has learned that Richard Schiff -- Toby Ziegler in "The West Wing" will
be playing on the Actor's Equity team -- one of the teams in the organizations
division,
which plays its games at 3.30 p.m. The shows play at 11.30 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.
Thursdays, at the Heckscher softball fields, through the end of August.
The league has scheduled three pre-season games this year. LPR followed the
game between Fiddler on the Roof and Hairspray, Last year, the Fiddler team
included John Cariani, who got a Tony for his performance as Motel, the tailor.
LPR did not see Mr. Cariani with the team and asked if he was still in the
show. LPR was told that Mr. Cariani was now in Modern
Orthodox -- and for a moment, LPR wondered if Mr. Cariani had left Fiddler
to study Judaism.
LPR soon learned that Modern Orthodox is an off-Broadway comedy, whose cast
includes Fiddler pitcher Hunter Foster, as well as Mr. Cariani who arrived
during the Fiddler-Hairspray game, to cheer on his former teammates.
LPR then learned that Hairspray team member Peter Matthew Smith was now playing
Motel in Fiddler on the Roof -- but apparently would stay with his old team.
Now, there is an expression of loyalty not always found in the majors. (Hairspray,
LPR notes, received the 2004 team spirit award.)
For more Broadway Show League photos, team listings, schedule and standings,
please use our link to the league.
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Heckscher
softball fields, looking towards 5th Avenue, and Central Park
South -- Field 5 in foreground.
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Hunter
Foster, pitching for Fiddler (he pitched for Urinetown, season
of 2002).
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Shana
with the Fiddler on the Roof team.
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John
Cariani, Tony award winner for playing Motel in Fiddler, with
Peter
Matthew Smith, now in the Motel role.
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Peter
Matthew Smith, although in Fiddler he is playing on the Hairspray
team, the show he left to go to Fiddler; (he played on Hairspray,
last season).
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APRIL 10,
2005 --
I'm with Imus …
No problem from here if Imus keeps retorting
To a Wall Street Journal story he sees as distorting
And how glorious if the I-man occasionally
Used his mike on our behalf -- against, among others, PVB
APRIL 10,
2005 --
NYC2012 Update
(plus implications) …
Lance Armstrong was at Central Park, April 7 to support New York City's bid
to host the 2012 Olympic games. He said that all of the contending cities are
deserving, but New York City deserves the 2012 games most. This great six-time
Tour de France champion is shown with Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff (l) and NYC
Parks commissioner Adrian Benepe (r) as they began a short bike ride in the
park.
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The
great six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, shown
here with Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff (l) and NYC Parks commissioner
Adrian Benepe (r).
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With gas prices still going up--and the Bush administration telling us that
gas prices are going to go still higher (whose side are they on?) -- bicycles
just may be the personal vehicle of choice in this otherwise very high
tech 21st century.
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Amoco's
latest gas price … and climbing higher daily.
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APRIL 10,
2005 --
Just wondering …
The Wall Street Journal, in an April 8 editorial, urged conservatives to let
the Sandy Berger matter play out and not jump to conspiracy conclusions.
Mr. Berger, former National Security adviser to President Clinton (and native
of Millterton, N.Y, where this writer bought his first beer, the summer of
'58), got caught, acccording to a New York Times report, April 2, taking "classified
documents from a government reading room last year and destroying some of them." The
Journal assured readers
that no original documents were destroyed by Mr. Berger and none of the destroyed
documents had handwritten notes in the margins.
Maybe the documents were destroyed to
save government the cost of refiling duplicates?
Maybe if Mr. Berger had done whatever it is he has done -- after serving a
Republican president -- we would today be hearing about Bergergate?
APRIL 10, 2005
--
That Republican memo …
So now we are told that an aide to GOP Senator Mel Martinez wrote
the Terri Schiavo talking points memo, and that the senator, reportedly
not having read the
draft, handed it to a Democratic senator while seeking support for the bill to
give federal courts jurisdiction in the Schiavo matter. Apparently the memo was
then shown to the media.
LPR wonders if, instead of going to the media, it should have been returned to
Senator Martinez. Perhaps in days of old?
APRIL 10, 2005
--
The Tucker Auditions …
An early April in New York tradition has become the auditions
held at the 92nd Street YMHA, in Manhattan, under the auspices of the Richard
Tucker Music
Foundation.
LPR managed to spend a few hours on the second day -- the 2005 Richard Tucker
Career Grant Auditions -- and expects that the opera world will be hearing about
Brian Mulligan, baritone; Laquita Mitchell, soprano; Quinn Kelsey, baritone,
Latonia Moore, soprano, among the talented young artists who were a
part of this year's Tucker auditions.
The Richard Tucker Music Foundation is named for the great American tenor --
who started out as a cantor and, for a number of years, conducted services at
the Concord Hotel for the Passsover and Rosh Hashana/Yom Kippur holidays.
For more information, visit their website - www.richardtucker.org.
APRIL 10, 2005 --
Off to the races …
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LPR
spotted this race car near Route 8, in Torrington, CT
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APRIL 5, 2005
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Happy Easter from the PVB …
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LPR
got this photo on Easter of a pothole on Broadway, with PVB busy
writing ticket!
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~
LPR LOOKING BACK ~
Remembering May 1, 2004
Note:
Lonely Pamphleteer Review
Congratulates Miss North Carolina,
Chelsea Cooley -- Miss USA 2005.
MAY
1, 2004 --
Shandi
Meets Shana
Newly-crowned
Miss USA Shandi Finnessey met briefly with Shana in The Bronx, April 23.
Miss USA was heading to the Press gate at Yankee Stadium, for the first Yankee-Red
Sox game (won by Boston 11-2) when she spotted Shana and asked to meet her.
Shana undemonstrably appreciated Miss USA's pat, after which a smiling Miss
USA went to the game.
NOTE TO CELEBRITIES:
Shana will be happy to make your acquaintance. Please contact her via the
LPR web address. Principals only; Shana will not take calls from agents.
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Miss
USA Shandi Finnessey.
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Petting
Shana.
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Miss
USA at the Press Gate.
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APRIL 10, 2005
--
Broadway Show League advisory …
Preseason starts April 14, at Central Park's Heckscher softball fields, in
the southwest corner of the park, at about 65th street.
Teams include "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," but LPR hears that John
Lithgow, starring
in the show, has retired from softball.
Couple of seasons ago, he played first base for "Sweet Smell of Success."
For the 2005 teams and schedule, please
use the LPR link to the league.
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