Festivals Update: Submitted Souvenir November 2001 to the Evora International Short Film Festival, held in November in Švora, Portugal. On hearing this, a Portuguese-Ohioan friend of mine praised the town effusively. (He just got back from a trip to the other homeland last week, so I was predisposed to send something to Portugal anyway.)
NYC Flava: An easy dozen real estate underlings are milling around outside the window right now, including a couple of blondes with Lily Pulitzer dresses (aren't those supposed to be for the beach? In any case, Here's something we don't have in NYC: A store called The Lily Pad.) and the token gay guy with a brush-hawk (a name I just made up for a Beckham wannabe mohawk that's just combed, not shaved). Anyway, the townhouse across the street is on the market, after spending the last three years in a to-the-neighbor's-brick reconstruction.
Here's the site for Alexandra Champalimaud, the designer. Turns out the house belonged to the great director, Otto Preminger, who'd modded it up. Funny, I'd forgotten what it looked like. [Just found this writeup in the Observer about the deal. If you're interested in buying it, let me know. I'll hook you up.]
