Earlier this month, NYC\u2019s largest Gothic cathedral celebrated\u00a0the annual feast day of St. Francis of Assisi and his ancient Blessing of the Animals.<\/b>
\nThis time it\u2019s Jane\u2019s jungle
Earlier this month, NYC\u2019s largest Gothic cathedral celebrated the annual feast day of St. Francis of Assisi and his ancient Blessing of the Animals.
For 11 years, until the pandemic, I hosted a similar animal\u2019s holiday at St. John the Divine. We loved all \u2014 the young, babies, healthy, strays, police dogs, the sick, frail, old, rescues, a frog, fish in containers, turtles, horses outside, sheep, pigs, cows, camels, donkeys, chickens, goats.
Even a choir and a rabbi for the Jewish animals. Police rerouted traffic. I remember His Eminence Cardinal Dolan flat on the floor petting a Chihuahua \u2014 while a Great Dane awaited his turn.
We had prayers, choir, music, scripture, photographers, reporters, clean-up people. Approximately 2,000 New Yorkers and their furry, feathered, scaly family members.
Now at Amsterdam and 110th. Jane Fonda chatted with the Cathedral\u2019s first-ever female dean. Fonda, after the Procession of the Animals, headed to Harlem for fried chicken and collard greens at Melba\u2019s.City \u2019scapes
Lindsay Lohan at Hudson Yards. Staring out the window. Her interest? Not the husband. It was the view \u2014 plus Champagne and caviar . . . Alyssa Milano at Avra on Sixth Avenue inhaling fish . . . \u00adBethenny Frankel at ZZ\u2019s Club eyeing untouched pizza and discussing her Scorpio sign . . . WANT Jackie Gleason\u2019s old house \u2014 marble and teak, 7,000 feet of all round rooms? Try $5.5 mil . . . Mike Pompeo at the Waldorf\u2019s Alfred E. Smith dinner said the cardinal was a former CIA operative and the Vatican\u2019s black smoke should be retitled white smoke.Making scenes
PR specialist James Fragale and David Muir exercising at Equinox. Soon one will fit into a tighter suit . . . NEW kid on the block is Seinfeld\u2019s filmmaker daughter. Sascha\u2019s shortie \u201cThe Final Cut\u201d stars Ali Wentworth and Henry Winkler who plays God. A writer, not a filmmaker, she says: \u201cI work a normal job.\u201dListen up, folks
LETTING our gov know NY has no tax rebate for syndicated shows. Jersey, yes. Connecticut, yes. New York? No . . . J. Lopez: \u201c \u2018Kiss of the Spider Woman\u2019 we hadn\u2019t enough rehearsal. The director wanted only one take. Very challenging. Should have had \u2014 like other musicals \u2014 12 months to do it . . . Foreign travel\u2019s shriveled. Afghans are sending possible guests \u201cThe Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People\u2019s History of Afghanistan.\u201d Very thin book.Foreign affairs
Italy\u2019s ultimate getaway is their Casa di Langa. $14,375 per person, includes a hot-air balloon ride. At dawn yet . . . AND fie on Britain\u2019s kvetching. Why not smack their other badly behaved prince of a guy who does nothing but follow his unemployed stormtrooper wife but is too cheap to spring for his own security.
Me, like I say, I\u2019m too soft-spoken to actually say such a thing.
TODAY\u2019S rules. Convicted? You\u2019re let loose. College? Study hate. School? You still can\u2019t write or read. Career? Move in with your parents. Work? Naah. Take drugs. Your country? Naah, burn the flag. Want antiques? Take a close-up of Pelosi.
And that\u2019s only here, kids \u2014 only in the God bless us United States of America.<\/p>\n