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‘We Planned a Rare Date Night Out and Found a Friend to Babysit’
Seeing stars on the Upper East Side, a spare pen to the rescue and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
Seeing Stars
Dear Diary:
It was 1985, and my husband and I were living on the Upper East Side. We planned a rare date night out and found a friend to babysit our 1-year-old daughter.
We set out for a nearby theater where “Cocoon,” with Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn among the stars, was playing. I was a fan of the couple, having seen them onstage at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis when I was growing up in Iowa.
Unfortunately, when we got to the theater, we found that the next showing was sold out.
Determined not to waste the evening, we walked a few blocks to another theater, where “Prizzi’s Honor,” with Kathleen Turner, Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston, was about to start.
As we waited to buy tickets, I noticed an older couple standing a few feet ahead of us in line. I nudged my husband
“Look,” I whispered. “That couple: That’s Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn!”
— Jean Young