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newsHey you made it!!! Welcome to the first appearance of community news in the bruce e-zine. Let's start off with some more news about some of you:
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My very dear friend, the beautiful Belinda Alexandra, who I met some years ago when I was in Australia and who later came up and worked in New York for a while, returned to Sydney and finished her novel, White Gardenia, which was published by Harper Collins and has been released in Australia only, so far. I sent for my copy from an Australian version of Amazon (www.seekbooks.com.au) and it arrived in about a week. It's already a best seller in Sydney and I would urge any of you looking for a good read (it's a great story about a mother and daughter, separated by war and traversing China, Russia, the Pacific and Australia over many years). It's a beautifully written saga and I totally recommend it. By the way, the dollar values at seekbooks.com are in Australian dollars, worth about half an American one. So don't freak out :-)!! |
| My friend Paul Sochaczewski and I met at The Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in the early 90's. He's a journalist who lives in Geneva and has clients in Europe which cause his peripatetic peregrinations to ensue, allowing him to be a genuine world traveler. He could be anywhere on the globe at any time and I'm always happy to see his smiling face when he comes to NY. Hopefully I will be able to join him in the Swiss/Italian Alps this summer for some hiking. His girlfriend, Monique, is also a writer and has made it in with him on at least one occasion. This time, Paul and I met for lunch at The Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, probably one of the best Oyster places on the planet . .truly. He just finished a campaign for the Osteoporosis Foundation, having convinced McCann Ericson to do a pro bono spot. He shot it in Argentina and just came to NY to screen it. When we met he was thrilled with the final cut and we started planning our hiking expedition in the Alps. |   |
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On Samhain (Halloween to those of you who don't know) there is this event here in Greenwich Village which has grown out of proportion in the past ten years. But it is fun. Trisha and I (Bo Peep and the Wolf) didn't march, but we had the best spot to take some snaps so I share a few with you here. (No pics of us, I'm afraid) |  |
It was a night where the temperature dropped unexpectedly and we high tailed it home after a few hours. |
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On December 8th, Trish, her mom Julia, my Aunt Rose and Uncle Duke (they are extremely cool) and I, had a snack at Sardis, went to see a show Trish and I knew they would enjoy (and we did too!) "Say Goodnight, Gracie," then finished it off with a great buffet at the Marriot, all on Times Square where we stopped for this momento picture. I think it's a terrific shot. One of those surprise success photos you'd never expect. The next day, Trish was caught here contemplating the lovely love story of George Burns and Gracie Allen. Funny. |  |
| On another rainy night, this one in November, my friend Edelmira Ruiz (picture to the right), a very unusual woman whose passion is art (she collects and has had a gallery here in NY) curates exhibitions and invited me to this one in Mid-Town. It was a mixed media one man show but I was, as usual, more interested in the people I met than the exhibition per se. |  |
Edelmira is also a Real Estate broker whose specialty is Townhouses. So that's how we met and became friends. At her show (picture to the right) I did meet some very interesting people including. . . . . |
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| Judy Thomas, the Steve Madden handbag designer whose infectious smile kept me grinning had some interesting stories and is also an artist who has had some showings of her own. |  |
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