Barry Manilow’s musical “Harmony” just opened on B’way after his years and years refining it.
To show his strongmindedness, a load of years ago he escaped injury when his Range Rover was one of four automobiles involved in a collision.
It was a wet street. One car, hit by a truck, crashed into him. Result? He then plowed into another vehicle right in front.
Although what he was driving got towed away in pieces, Manilow remained in good spirits.
He still spent an hour signing autographs for police and passersby while waiting for someone to collect him.
And speaking of those who create plays brings up another who this month, November 1900, died. Oscar Wilde, who was three years earlier released from his sentence in the British prison Reading Gaol.
He then immediately wrote to his friend Robert Ross: “It is curious how vanity helps keep the successful man and wrecks the failure. In old days half of my strength was my vanity.”
Lest anything rattle Eric Adams, next in line in a 90-day legal temp takeover position is automatically NYC’s Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.
Nice gent with a hunger to be a biggie. But: He’s so far left his car won’t even turn right.
This dude could tax former New Yorkers after they’ve moved to Florida.
Please, trust Mother, kiddies, he could turn Bergdorf’s into public housing.
Our country tis of me now goes from C to shiny C-note. Menendez and wife? Hunter and Papa? Joe and Jill went up the Hill to fetch water?! With today’s poopliticians the game’s one for you — two for me.
So I asked my friend, former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, why’s he running now for Jersey City mayor?
“I sold ties going through college but wasn’t good at it. I haven’t the right gene. When I was a young lawyer people went to dinner together, families picnicked and summered together. Different now.”
Back when he came out as “a gay American” the kerfuffle caused him to give up his governorship. Today the world has changed.
“Now I work with the New Jersey Re-entry Corporation. Vets coming out of jail. One of every three is court-involved. Facing war, multiple deployments, buddies killed, sophisticated weaponry, tied into trauma they need a second chance. We get them housing, work, driver’s license. They need help.
“As Jersey City mayor I’ll change its direction. Clean streets, pave roads, no driving without licenses, improve quality of education, basics and literacy.”
As for McGreevey himself, his older daughter is a lawyer, younger daughter is a senior at Barnard.
Think Manhattan traffic is loud? Meet England’s Bella the cat. Age 14. Feline.
She recently bellowed for a Guinness World Record with the loudest purr — 54.6 decibels — equal to the volume of a boiling kettle. She beat Bernie Sanders.
At the crowded T Bar restaurant on East 60th a person was overheard summing up Hunter Biden: “Listen, what else could anyone ever expect from an unemployed drugtaker whose single greatest achievement was an Edsel dealership in the Sahara?”