What's Happening!! - 3/26/06
Lindsay Davis - New York Times
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This Week's Gossip
Once upon a time, a hopeful freelance journalist left Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and found her way to the Big Apple, New York City, the city that never sleeps. Yes, it was me. I was a feature article writer in that college newspaper.
I had met my closest friend, Rachel Tatellio, at Carnegie Mellon where we shared first a freshman dorm room and eventually rented an apartment together. In 1997 we packed our stuff and headed for New York City where we might each find our future careers.
Rachel was lucky, meeting Diego Farina at the Four Seasons Supper Club in Manhattan. For reasons no one can really understand, he liked her energy and enthusiasm and agreed to purchase a closed Off-Broadway theater called, Creative Arts Theatre, and set her up as his partner. Rach has been writing and directing plays there ever since. She and Diego share the profits and she makes a decent living.
I had a tougher time, beginning my career as a gossip columnist in a rag where I'd rather not even mention their name. Art Fisher, editor of The New York Times, happened on me when I took a little swipe at him in my column. He invited me out to dinner and asked me if I'd consider writing a gossip column for the Times.
I called it What's Happening!!, as you no doubt already know if you've read this far.
Rachel and I are still close friends, her living in a swank penthouse apartment in the Carnegie Hill Complex, while I chose a top floor penthouse in the Plaza Hotel.
On Thursday night, March 16th, Rachel fell and tore up her knee. I spent Friday by her side at the hospital, then took her home to my place to recover. She's sleeping in my spare room as I type this late article. I love her dearly and hopefully she'll be out and about again, hale and hearty, in a week or so. They may do some plastic surgery to fix up that valuable stem of hers, the one often seen in those L'eggs ads in the major magazines.
Entertainment
With Rachel incapacitated for a few weeks, Creative Arts Theatre will remain dark.
