Archive for June 5th, 2008
Robert F. Kennedy
By Tom Teicholz at 5 June, 2008, 2:55 pm
Today marks the 40th Anniversary of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
I shook Robert Kennedy’s hand once.
I was a young kid and was attending the Puerto Rican Day parade in New York along Fifth Avenue with my father. My father loved parades and we went often — whatever the occasion or and ethnic group: [...]
BEHIND EVERY GREAT (gay) MAN, there is often a woman
By Tom Teicholz at 5 June, 2008, 11:45 am
And it is usually his mother.
I am reminded of this when reading the obits of Yves St. Laurent, who died this past week.
About fifteen years ago as part of co-authoring Marvin Traub’s memoirs, I accompanied on his last visit to the Paris collections as head of Bloomingdale’s. At one event, a cocktail party, [...]