jaybone
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Met Skip only once very briefly at a New York alumni event. It was in the Plaza Hotel on the edge of Central Park a couple of floors up. While taking the elevator up, I bumped into Lawrence of Arabia coming out of the elevator. He needed a lot of help and it appeared he was with a nurse. Get on the elevator, go up, there is a buffet or something and I hop in line only to bump into Skip. I blurted out, "I just saw lawrence of Arabia in the elevator" He said, "Me too. How old is Peter O'Toole? He can't be that old can he?" And we proceeded to beat around the logic/logistics of whether he was 70 or 90. I felt pretty sure he was closer to 90 and Skip was pretty sure he was closer to 70. He asked where he could get a good pint of guiness in the area and I was just about to answer him (not a fucking clue, know a place on 16th street that is pretty good) when we were interrupted by some schmo wanting to talk about the Jamaal Levy free throws in the West Virginia game (I kid you not).
I think he said, "everyone has good days and bad days and that one wasn't my best" or something like that, but I was distracted by how fucking pissed I was that we were interrupted by that question.
I think he said, "everyone has good days and bad days and that one wasn't my best" or something like that, but I was distracted by how fucking pissed I was that we were interrupted by that question.