Kim was my next door neighbor for a short while when I used to have to hang in Manhattan. She was married to Alec Baldwin at the time, but he was never around. It was a place off of Central Park West, on the ritzy side, I suppose, but not drastically so. It was an older building with a great little bar, and a nice dining room for the tenants only. Kim and I (we were on a first-name basis :) ) would sometimes have coffee in the mornings. I would fly into the city when I had to for work, stay for about a week, then fly out only to fly back a week or so later for another 5-7 days. Kim actually lived in the building, but my apartment right next to hers belonged to some old, famous writer, who had been subletting it for years through a broker. I found out later the mans name was Gordon Parks. Parks, who died a few years ago (2010, I think), was more than just some old, famous writer. He was one of the most talented photographers for LIFE Magazine during its heyday, a Civil Rights Activist, a Film Director who created Shaft and several other movies, and, yes, he wrote and published several books. Did I mention that Parks was also notorious for having a lot of girlfriends? Kim told me that one morning over coffee. Whats really most interesting of all to me, and I mean this sincerely, the only reason I stayed at this place when I had to be in New York was because it had great showers. No kidding. I had discovered this awesomeness a few years earlier when I was working at SAS-Bazooka in Baton Rouge and our so-called Public Relations firm required me and Randy Osborne to be in Manhattan on occasion to do things like help produce the New York Music Awards, meet with L.L. Cool J and other equally perfunctory fantasies the PR firm came up with - as in completely fabricated - until we sued them for what amounted to fraud. Ask the OZ Man if you dont believe me, those showers were to die for - huge shower heads, placed real high like us guys who are 6-4 and up rarely find, and endless supplies of hot water. I miss those showers. Sorry to carry on so, I was reminded of this all when I saw this video news report about Kim. . .
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 01:59:04 +0000
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