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and Can you move that?
and Can I borrow you for just two minutes?
I cant think of a better use for my home.
Theater is what I pin my hopes on now.
Its been a very challenging time in the city, she told me.
Id so much rather be doing this than throwinga party.
The only challenge is the willingness to hand over your space, to give over control of your home.
They movedeverythingin my living room, Courtney admitted, taking a quick deep breath.
She put her white Birkenstock down with the crew only once.
They were asking me, Can we move this table with a tablecloth on it?
I said I dont think you should, cause there are cans of paint under there.
Storage in New York is …ugh.
Its a really nice apartment.
Courtney didnt feel the need to alert them about this evenings show.
By the time anyone finds out, well be in process.
Then she got distracted by the crown molding.
(The play ispretty dismal stuff, after all.)
When a gay couple squirmed in between them, one commented, Its like being at SeaWorld.
So its quite … intimate.
Kathy has a sort of, shall I say, patrician sternness, he said, then corrects himself.
Sternis maybe too hard a word she has a realclarityabout her.
I feel like that is very Joan Didion: very clear-eyed, takes no b.s.
The other thing she has is a certain hard-won warmth to her.
I really believe that she gives you some hope in this version.
And she does, because this istheater.
If it were the resurrected Joan Didion standing in front of you, she might not be so reassuring.
You look down and pray the ice will hold.
Its exactly the kind of moment where Didions sad story begins.
