George, Being George by Nelson W. Aldrich

Author:Nelson W. Aldrich
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781588367525
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-10-21T10:00:00+00:00

PAMELA DRAPER I met George a long, long time before I ever went out with him. It was around 1970, when I was about twenty. I met him at a party at Jim Moran’s. Jim Moran was an eccentric guy, extraordinarily creative, very much like George, passionate about books and passionate about women. I’d come to his party and was wandering around this vast apartment on West End Avenue, jam-packed with people. I wandered into the study, and there was this lone man sitting behind a desk, reading a book. He said, “Hello, I’m George Plimpton,” and I said, “I’m Pamela Draper,” and that was the beginning of a long relationship—thirty years or more. He was having trouble with Freddy almost from the beginning. I don’t know how I knew that; he certainly didn’t talk about it. He opened up about his enthusiasms—literature, or music, or women in general. He could be very forthcoming about those subjects. But his sadder thoughts and feelings he didn’t often express. And when you did so yourself, it was uncomfortable for him. He had a very New England upbringing. My father was the same way.

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