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Title: What's Happening!! - 9/24/06
Post by: Lindsay Davis on September 23, 2006, 08:53:22 PM
What's Happening!! - 9/24/06
Lindsay Davis - New York Times
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This Week's Gossip
Last Saturday night I intentionally spent the night in my own Plaza Hotel suite, challenging the Doll Man since he had threatened me about mentioning his name again in my column. I did keep the chrome plated 25 millimeter pistol handy just in case. Nada! Nothing! He's all bark and no bite, I thought, even beginning to wonder if he was just a copy cat prankster playing off the person that killed Donna Deere.

Sunday morning I woke up refreshed after eight hours of uninterrupted sleep. I slipped in a pair of sweats and joined Rachel in Central Park for our normal run. Jason came along supposedly as protection but again no sign of the Doll Man.

Rachel and I shared brunch in the Palm Court with Mike Miller and Diego, then headed for Diego's to watch the Giants game with the Eagles. Things looked pretty grim for our lads and Diego kept swearing as he paced the floor. 24-7 Philadelphia as the 4th quarter opened. Then the miracle began! An hour later in overtime Eli Manning found Plaxico Burress  in the end zone for the game winner.

Diego broke open a magnum of expensive champagne and we all got wasted over dinner.

On Wednesday night I played Monica in Rachel's Friends play. It was a lot of fun and I think Rachel might have signed up a new Webmaze Player in Soul's Destiny. She and a friend named Rags were quite humorous in the audience

By Friday I was no longer thinking about the Doll Man. I needed to do a little catch up work on my column and meet with Art Fisher, my editor, so I left my supposedly safe penthouse in the Plaza Hotel and caught a taxi toward the Times headquarters building. I was half way there when I realized I'd left the folder with my notes on my desk. I had to have them so I asked the cabbie to take me back.

In the lobby, who should I bump into but Bruce Wilonski, the petroleum engineer that had set up those two petroleum projects for Genovese Construction Inc. He took the elevator upstairs with me and I asked him to pour us each a glass of wine while I used the master bathroom.

I was barely through the door in my bedroom when I was grabbed from behind and felt cold steel pressed against my throat. A hand slid up under my sweater and cupped one breast. It was the Doll Man and he ordered me to take off my clothing. I spoke as loudly as possible without alerting him that Bruce was in the next room.

When Bruce burst in, Harry released me and a fight broke out. Harry sliced Bruce's arm with that knife before Bruce gained the upper hand and subdued him. I called 911 and fifteen minutes later Lt. Friday arrived with several police officers, arrested Harry and took him back to the 5th Precinct where he'll remain until Monday morning's arraignment.

Entertainment
This Wednesday night, September 27th at 10:00 pm ET, the Off-Broadway Creative Arts Theatre will be offering Rachel Tatellio's version of Seinfeld - The Contest. It should be fun and I will be sitting in my center seat in the back row watching to see who might show up and who sits with whom.