yI worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC for 18 years. Also consulted for a lot of other museums. We used to get to go to the exhibitions before they opened as we would do surveys on what people thought about the exhibition. Once I was at the Museum of Modern Art at a pre-opening visit, and wound up in a room with just four people. Me, Lee Radziwell (Jackie O's sister), Kurt Vonnegut, and Steve Martin. I thought, "They are probably all wondering who the hell I am?"
Had a fifteen minute conversation with Walter Cronkite at The Met as he asked Moms Skillethead and me to lead him out of the museum through back ways so he wouldn't encounter too many people. We talked about Fran Lawrence back when he was in trouble. I told Cronkite that Lawrence probably said exactly the opposite of what he meant. Uncle Walter replied, "That remends of something Barry Goldwater once said to me: "Why can't the press report what I mean instead of what I say?"
Also had brief conversations with Janis Joplin and George Carlin (not together). Both pretty funny, but this post is long enough now.
