(Alex Witchel’s article appeared in The New York Times, 7/21; via Pam Green.)
When I finished reading “The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age,” I cried.
I cried because it had been too long since a joyous Al Hirschfeld drawing heralded the opening of a Broadway show on the cover of The New York Times’s Arts & Leisure section. I cried because it had been too long since I’d seen Al Hirschfeld at the theater, pen in hand, waiting like a kid for the show to begin. I cried because when I told my 44-year-old brother that I was writing about Al Hirschfeld, he looked blank before saying, “The guy with the ‘Ninas’?”
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