Pizza and wine after performing for a great Saturday-night crowd on Broadway.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Sitting in a living room with my sister, Pat Thaler, and her seven grandchildren and just talking with them. They range in age from 9 to 21 years old.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 February 2013 source ↗
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Walking in my garden in England with my wife.
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