bear down.....

three yesterday and probably three today. Hope will be rested enough to go out to Jack tonight to see William's play. Last night too tired to go to Williamsburg---slept a bit then went to Irish pub that has replaced All State on 72nd street. Nice time, bartender is always nice---not very crowded, considering it is March madness time. After a while was joined by Gary, a transit lawyer a little younger than myself.. Our bond is that he was raised in Baltimore, and so we often reminisc about what the city was like in the fifties and sixties, when I discovered it, and what is happening there now. He is a nice guy, a little limited in his vision, but talking to him about Park Heights Avenue and Reisterstown Road---Garrison Boulevard, et. al, immediately through me back into the memories of my four years at Hopkins. Time seems to vanish in these conversations---I can almost see the rolling fields, the open spaces, the suburban sprawl that made Baltimore seem so exciting to me when I first arrived there. And, of course, the Jewish high school girls. Ah, the longing.
  Stayed a while at the pub then returned home.
  Thursday evening, tired but determined to see a movie, and not simply remain in the apartment.
  Right time and place: Lincoln Plaza Cinemas where Remember was playing. It starred Christopher
  Plummer who I idolized during my years at Bronx Science. Plummer, now around 86, is in just
  about every frame of the movie, does a remarkable job as a somewhat demented concentration camp   survivor on a mission to find and kill an Aushwitz commandant, living under an assumed name in
 America. Movie kind of hokie, with a surprise ending, nevertheless, it filled the bill and kept me interestied. Hardly a great movie, and I don't think if Plummer was not in it I would have seen it, but since he was, glad I did. Again, too tired to hang out, explore the bar scene in the neighborhood---simply went home.
 Tomorrow will try to see Bryan's play at the Brick, then meet up with my friend Zach, who has just returned from Chicago where he played the Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie. Should be meaningful to compare notes. Will report on it probably Monday.