New York, March 6-7, 2006 – On Monday, we stopped at the Rainbow Room, where Julie Andrews and Alec Baldwin hosted a benefit for the Bay Street Theater. Actors Tony Roberts and B.D. Wong and Chicago producer Marty Richards joined in celebrating the non-profit Sag Harbor theater company’s 15th anniversary.

And then we dashed over to the Museum of Modern Art, just a few blocks away, and ran smack into Captain von Trapp himself, Christopher Plummer. While Plummer may have been amused that his Sound of Music wife was just around the corner, he was with his real-life wife of over thirty years, Elaine.

The draw at MoMA was a screening of filmmaker Ric Burns’ PBS documentary about Eugene O’Neill. The evening was kind of a look through the family archives for model/actress Kiera Chaplin. She’s not only the granddaughter of Oona Chaplin, she’s also the great-granddaughter of the film’s subject, Nobel laureate playwright Eugene O’Neill. The young Chaplin was also in town to celebrate the re-release of some Charlie Chaplin short films.

Actor Robert Klein checked out the Burns movie, and we met him again the next day, on the set of Empty City, with Don Cheadle and Adam Sandler, who did not sing on a mountainside, but did ride a scooter through the East Village.