Chekhov's Mistress
Frites are just Gentrifried Potatoes (part 1?)
The New York Observer on celebrity in Brooklyn (“Welcome to Schnooklyn: O Whitmanian Boro! Invaded by Brokeback Movie Stars and Weber Grills”):
Established celebs of the Slope—John Turturro, Paul Auster, etc.—aren’t thought of as neighbors per se, but as landmarks, as well-worn and familiar as the Prospect Park band shell. But then the preposterously beautiful couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly (who actually grew up in Brooklyn) popped up on Prospect Park West like two glamorous high-rises suddenly dwarfing all the brownstones. Goofing around with their kids at the playground or catching a matinee at the Pavillion, Mr. and Mrs. Jennifer Connelly try to pass for professors, but they are too famous. They have too much presence, and their neighbors worry they will shift the balance of the neighborhood. Still, Ms. Crawford [Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn] holds out hope that Jennifer Connelly can become another Buscemi.
Buscemi, Crawford says earlier, is the “kind of the perfect celebrity. He’s the perfect Brooklyn celebrity, because he’s so unpretentious. He’s a part of the community.”
And yes, we have seen Auster lunching in the Slope (see the movie The Squid and the Whale for a Park Slope, Brooklyn setting). But we don’t go there anymore because it’s too crowded to park. Here in Ft. Greene, where I live, we have Rosie Perez and the ghosts of literary heroes Whitman, Wright and Marianne Moore, though my sources tell me that the excellent novelist Colson (Apex Hides the Hurt : A Novel) Whitehead lives in our hood too.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: December 01, 2005
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Song of Myself: Diary
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