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6 Letter From The Publisher 10 On The Cover

Boulevard blossoms with intriguing features

Viewers lawyer up with Bob Odenkirk and Michael McKean as the duo discuss the sibling rivalry and stellar storylines of the AMC dramedy Better Call Saul

16 From The Racetrack With Love Retired racing dogs find new homes thanks to Grateful Greyhounds

22 18 Miles Of Books

The Strand Bookstore turns the pages of fiction into libraries worthy of royalty

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28 Garden Variety Harlem Hustle 32

Digging deep into the world of heirloom tomatoes

Dream Dancer Misty Copeland raises the barre and breaks barriers in the world of dance

Chef Marcus Samuelsson flips the bird at Red Rooster

4O A Russian Fairy Tale 50 54 Canadian Raconteur 58 A View From The Outfield 64 Vampire Queen

The Princess Anastasia finds her home on Broadway

Long Island Songstress Comes Home

Idina Menzel changes creative gears with new album

Paul Shaffer kicks off his latest musical chapter

Playing catch with Curtis Granderson

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Panfield Good karma and family legacy

Author Anne Rice bridges the worlds of Atlantis and gothic bloodsuckers

66 Social Diary

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ince bringing back Boulevard magazine in 2016 following a five-year hiatus, I’m proud of the top-shelf stories we’ve run, spanning the worlds of film, television, art, music, food and fashion. So it goes with our newest issue.

Food is a passion here at Boulevard, so we were very excited to have Steve Mosco interview chef Marcus Samuelsson and review his most excellent Harlem-based restaurant, Red Rooster.

Readers who enjoy dabbling in the kitchen get the latest installment of Steve’s popular one-ingredient food focus column with the subject being tomatoes this time around. Culture ranks high for us and to that end, Jennifer Fauci does a stellar job profiling Misty Copeland and discussing her role as a soloist ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre and how she is breaking barriers as the first African-American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in the ballet’s 75-year history. Jennifer also indulges her love of the written word with her feature on The Strand Bookstore and a visit to its rare book collection.

Speaking of writers, Dave Gil de Rubio speaks with Anne Rice, the queen of vampire literature, about her latest release, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis. On the Broadway front, Kimberly Dijkstra interviews the leads of the Tony-nominated musical Anastasia. Dave also gives music fans their fix with separate profiles on local Broadway star Idina Menzel and former Late Show With David Letterman music director Paul Shaffer, both of whom have new albums out. We even delve into the world of sports as Steve sits down with New York Mets outfielder Curtis Granderson to discuss everything from baseball to being a role model. Dog lovers will get their heartstrings tugged by Jennifer’s story on the Grateful Greyhounds rescue organization, while Christy Hinko takes us on a tour of sofa magnate Bernadette Castro’s Lloyd Harbor estate.

For this issue’s cover story, Dave sits down with Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk and former Sea Cliff resident Michael McKean to discuss the nuts, bolts and popularity of this Breaking Bad prequel. There is a lot to love in this issue of Boulevard, which will be just enough to hold you over until we return in August.

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It’s All Good Man Bob Odenkirk and Michael McKean return for Better Call Saul’s third season By Dave Gil de Rubio

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hen the world was introduced to Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Goodman in season two of Breaking Bad, viewers crossed paths with the epitome of a self-aggrandizing ambulance chaser with dollar signs in his eyes and not a whiff of ethics to him.

Yet, as distasteful as Goodman may have been, the fact that he was the series’ least hypocritical character who also happened to be really good at his job made for a combination that earned his portrayer, Odenkirk, a shot as the lead in a spinoff series that became Better Call Saul. It was a notion that was humorously brought up shortly after the first runthrough of this character’s Breaking Bad debut according to the actor-comedian.

“I joke about this but if I’m not mistaken, about 10 seconds after we finished the first scene with Saul Goodman in it, someone in the crew asked if he could have a job in the spinoff right after we shot that scene and everyone laughed,” Odenkirk recalls. “I think the character really stood out. Breaking Bad was fairly established story-wise at that point, so to have a character come on and take up that much space and be that unique and

energetic [was pretty unique]. In my second season there, which would have been the third season of Breaking Bad, [series creator] Vince [Gilligan] wanted to know if I thought there was a show because he thought there was. My response then and the years that followed, because Vince brought it up more than once was always the same, ‘If your instinct is that there’s a show there, then I’d be willing to bet that there’s a show there.’”

Gilligan’s creative intuition proved to be bang-on as Better Call Saul is well into its third season as the prequel to Breaking Bad. Set in 2002, viewers

Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill lectures his older sibling Chuck, played by Michael McKean

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are introduced to Goodman’s origins as James Morgan “Jimmy” McGill, a former scam artist from Cicero, IL, who moves out to Albuquerque to be near his older, successful law partner brother Charles “Chuck” McGill, in a quest to make a new start. The younger McGill’s inability to abandon his small-time hustling tendencies not only complicate his professional career as a lawyer, but strains an already complex relationship with his elder sibling. With Gilligan and former Breaking Bad supervising producer and executive story editor Peter Gould serving as co-show runners and co-writers on the

new series, many of the same elements have been retained that were so endemic to Saul’s predecessor—quirky cinematography, highly effective signature time jumps, complex characters and crisp writing. Having first worked with Gilligan when he was a writer for The X-Files, McKean isn’t surprised at the high level of quality material he’s been thrilled to be working with on his current show.

“I think people were initially wondering where this Saul guy came from and it all started with the curiosity behind his origin story,” McKean muses. “I used to say Breaking Bad is a crime story but

Better Call Saul is a law story. But you put them back-to-back like the Janus faces and they’re really about the same thing—that little place between society and anti-society that deserves some exploration. This is the best writing on TV. Vince, Peter [Gould] and their squad are making really wonderful art and it’s been a great pleasure being part of it.”

While McKean crossed paths with Gilligan on a prior series, it was Odenkirk’s work with comedy partner David Cross on a 1990’s HBO sketch comedy show that led to the Breaking Bad creator offering the Illinois native the opportunity to play BOULEVARD 11

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Viewers first met Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) and Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) in Breaking Bad

(Photo by Robert Trachtenberg/AMC/Sony Pictures)

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the unsavory Saul Goodman. It was a role Odenkirk was comfortable sliding into.

“I got a phone call out of the blue asking me to play this character on Breaking Bad. I hadn’t watched the show yet and the show hadn’t done that well. The first episodes of season two were on the air. Not many people had even seen it and I was offered the chance to play this great character on a great, well-written show that was under the radar at the time. It sounded like a really cool and unique opportunity for me and I felt confident that I could play a scheming, fast-talking kind of funny character in this very deadly, serious world of Breaking Bad.

I thought that was in my wheelhouse. Of course, over the years and in this new series, he’s grown into a more dimensional character by leaps and bounds,” he recalls. “Later on, I asked Vince why he gave me this part.

Peter Gould wrote the episode that first features Saul and now Peter is running Better Call Saul. They both said it was because of Mr. Show. I can’t take that answer apart and give you specifics, because it doesn’t make complete sense to me. But I’ll take what I think was a brain fart that went my way. I don’t want to look that gift horse too closely in the mouth.”

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BETWEEN SOCIETY AND ANTI-SOCIETY THAT DESERVES SOME

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Bob Odenkirk (above) and Michael McKean (right) play the McGill brothers (Photos by Ben Leuner/AMC)

relationship between McKean’s older McGill brother Chuck and Odenkirk’s ne’er-do-well younger brother Jimmy.

Conflict stems from the former being an overachieving straight arrow law firm partner who has an unbending moral code while the latter is looking to cut corners at every turn, despite having the intelligence and ability to make his bones as a top-rate attorney. Upping the ante is the symbiotic relationship between the two having to do with McKean’s character’s claimed debilitating sensitivity to electromagnetic fields that’s confined him to his home and has his younger brother serving as an enabler when viewers first meet the duo. The former Sea Cliff resident’s due diligence in doing research into this malady comes across to great effect, as McKean seamlessly reflects the kind of

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—Michael McKean nausea, vertigo, muscle aches and joint pain someone would feel who has this affliction.

“I did a little bit of research and I did discover that there are a lot of different symptoms that a lot of different people had felt and I tried to put together a laundry list of what it’s like to go through life like that,” he explains.

“Whether or not it’s a psychosomatic thing, those questions may or may not be answered this season, it’s real to Chuck. And if it’s real to Chuck it has to be real to Michael, otherwise it’s not going to ring true.”

While the Goodman/McGill character has plenty of unsavory characteristics that involve multiple levels of legal and moral malfeasance, the enthusiasm for Breaking Bad has carried over into its successor in a way that’s manifested it-

self into the show holding the record for the highest-rated scripted series premiere in basic cable history at the time of its airing. For Odenkirk, his character’s appeal comes down to the connection viewers make with the complexity at the heart of McGill’s moral core.

“I think [Jimmy’s] journey is one that people can relate to. I would characterize him as being a person whose instinct tells him he has some talents that should be appreciated by the world, but he can’t find exactly where they belong,” says Odenkirk. “I think that is something that a lot of people can relate to—feeling like they’re good at something, kind of knowing it inside but having a real struggle finding where they belong in the firmament of work, business and life and wanting to fit in and feel important.”

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hen Lisa Sallie founded Grateful Greyhounds in 1998, she did so with the mindset of educating people about the little-known breed. Since greyhounds spend much of their puppy years on the racetrack, Sallie saw a need to think ahead to what’s next for the dogs, and finding them loving homes became a priority on her list.

“Grateful Greyhounds does many things, but first and foremost, we find adoptive homes for greyhounds. We want people to know how wonderful they are,” says Sallie, who is also the president of the Huntington-based nonprofit organization.

If you sit down and keep score of the number of ex-racers in need of adoptive homes, Sallie says there is a sense of urgency. Because there is no greyhound racing circuit in New York, the breed tends to fall under the radar of other organizations.

“We don’t see them [the dogs] and

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Nonprofit relocates greyhounds from the racetrack to a forever home

By Jennifer Fauci

when you don’t see them, you don’t think about them, so it’s my job to get people thinking about them,” says Sallie, adding that the organization sets up camp at various Petco stores and street fairs across Long Island.

“Greyhounds are gentle giants.

They’re hounds and these dogs by nature are hunters, not racers, but

racing is what people have asked them to do and they do it willingly because they love to run.”

The dogs are also known as sighthounds, meaning that they should be on leashes at all times unless they are in a fenced-in-yard, as they don’t understand the concept of boundaries.

However, greyhounds are very mellow and laid back in demeanor, which makes them very easy to live with.

Sallie herself has four greyhounds: Bianca, Calvin, Thor and LZ. “Greyhounds go 40 miles per hour on the racetrack and then straight to the couch and that’s it. They like to hang out and that makes them unique,” says Sallie. “They’re quick studies. Some dogs go into foster and adoptive homes and they pick up things and learn fast because they’re eager to please.”

Perhaps one of the traits that make greyhounds unlike any other breed is their physical build. Made for speed, the dogs are aerodynamic, from the

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shape of their head and the way their ears tuck to their deep chest and tail acting as a rudder to balance them, which is perfect for the racetrack. Sallie says that within the first seven seconds, greyhounds can accumulate up to 30 miles per hour because they are sprinters, not endurance runners.

Grateful Greyhounds is neutral on the issue of racing and Sallie gives credit to the racing industry for reaching out to her when the track is no longer suitable for a dog. Typically, dogs age out of racing when they are 2 ½ to 3 ½ years old.

“We recently got three 18-month-old racers that weren’t showing the need to chase so we put them up for adoption,” says Sallie, adding that the mean age of an ex-racer that retires is about 3.

“Greyhounds have a lifespan of 12 to 15 years, however, not every organization will take injured greyhounds and that’s a sore spot for me. They will be euthanized if they don’t get adopted, so we always take in injured dogs.”

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out of their homes and can have as many as six dogs available for adoption. Sallie and her team are always pushing for foster homes and the best way to garner attention for the dogs is for people to see them at meet-and-greets.

“We always love volunteers to go out and show the dogs because people are always under the impression that they are unhealthy. We are accustomed to seeing big, beefy dogs and people see a fit greyhound, which is a muscular build, but they’re just fine,” says Sallie.

“It’s so cool when the dogs are brand new because they’ve never seen anything other than the racetrack. It’s a very homogeneous environment.”

Grateful Greyhounds possesses a wealth of knowledge about greyhounds as they are breed-specific. For those interested in adopting, there is an adoption fee because Sallie goes one step further than just placing a dog in a good home; she makes sure each dog is neutered or spayed and is up-to-date on shots. The organization also places the dog via adoption visits and does not

allow blind adoptions.

“We’re a good support system. When people have questions with housebreaking issues or sleeping schedules, we can help through basic training and tips because there are different ways to adjust them to life off the track,” says Sallie. “We are very active on social media and have many successful meet-andgreets. People need to see, touch and feel the dogs and talk to others about their experiences because they are truly beautiful animals.”

The organization has several upcoming events this spring and summer including their own fundraising event on September 23 at Belmont Lake State Park. There will be several dogs up for adoption as well as raffles, silent auctions and an outdoor picnic.

For more information on adopting a greyhound and upcoming events, visit www.gratefulgreys.com.

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Books By The Foot The Strand Bookstore houses the city’s best literature from antique classics to modern day fiction and the rarest books you’ll ever lay eyes on By Jennifer Fauci

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The Strand is an independent bookstore that boasts more than 18 miles of books from first editions and signed editions to unique binds and current fiction and memoirs.

But what lies upstairs is unknown to some customers. For upstairs at The Strand is the rare book room, where the store keeps its most treasured possessions.

“It’s so easy to collect books,” says Nancy Bass Wyden, who co-owns the store with her father, Fred Bass. It was Wyden’s grandfather Benjamin Bass who founded the business back in 1927. “The rare book room holds fabulous books from antique leather, marbleized insides, and our most expensive books are in our rare bookcase.”

The idea for such a special room came about after Wyden started receiving numerous unique books. The rare

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Nancy Bass Wyden in front of the rare book vault.

book collection has been in existence for 50 years. Among the shelves are a first edition Jack Kerouac, a Mark Twain set signed by Twain and Samuel Clemens, hand-colored French fashion magazines from the 1920s and the rarest books.

“Inside the rare book vault is our current most expensive book; a Ulysses signed by Henry Matisse and James Joyce. They got into a fight and not all the copies are signed, but this one is and it’s illustrated by Henri Matisse himself,” says Wyden of the book, which is worth $45,000. “The most expensive book ever sold was a $100,000 Shakespeare. The oldest book we currently have is a religious text from 1480 in Cologne, Germany, on the Psalms.”

Over the years, Wyden has found so much more than stories in books. Money, notes, pressed flowers, bullets, film negatives and a recorded tape are just some of the surprises that have been discovered among the pages.

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and her favorite authors include Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.

Having been brought up in such a literary environment, Wyden saw the need to help customers create their own private libraries, which is why she started Books by the Foot in 1986.

“Books are truly beautiful. We’re in New York City, the cultural center of the world and there are so many writers and readers here so there’s great things that come from private collections and estates,” says Wyden of the store’s stock.

“For me, it’s the best job ever. I can be very thoughtful and creative and use my

talents to find books that people don’t think ever existed. It’s fun to have this element and it really elevates the house and the spirit; it makes the home warm.”

Sky Friedlander is the director of Books by the Foot and has designed many libraries for hotels such as The Library Hotel, The Rittenhouse Hotel and the Four Seasons and for private and personal collections of some of the wealthiest people in New York City.

“Books by the Foot has really blown up. Every major designer in New York comes to us,” says Friedlander, who added that The Strand also does backgrounds for movies and Saturday Night Live, especially the Oval Office scenes. “We try to surprise people and give them something special. We’re a new and used bookstore, so we can get specific with collections.”

Of the designer libraries, Friedlander says books can be by color, subject, theme, a time period or anything the client chooses. She has had requests for libraries on seashells, jewels, westerns, animals, music and

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recently completed an Art Deco collection in a high-end New York apartment featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald books.

“Someone wanted an ombre wall of books to mimic a painting they had.

It was visually beautiful,” she says.

“Sometimes it’s subject specific and sometimes it’s for a visual effect, but either way, books are pieces of art.”

The Strand turns around the designer libraries fairly quickly. The biggest library Friedlander has done featured more than 2,000 art books, while Wyden has had a request for a replica of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Library. The price depends on the space and style of books. A cart is 15 feet of books, and they are priced by subject.

Art books are $300 per foot whereas antique books and leather-bound books are $500 per foot. In Wyden’s experience, employees almost always recommend books that go in a client’s library. If it’s for an individual, Wyden surveys her customer for information to make it truly personal.

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“We’ll ask a customer what their favorite books are, if they like animals or cars, what kind of art is on their walls and if they’re located in a different city,” she says, adding that people sometimes request books from the rare book room. “With our rare books we’re very careful. We’ll deliver them in person on our own trucks for an instal-

lation. After 90 years, we have a good reputation; we know what we’re doing.”

The Strand is always on the lookout for books and will buy straight from the publisher and discount them as well as visit estate sales for more vintage finds.

Those interested in buying or selling

books can contact the store directly.

“We get hundreds of books every day and we always have something beautiful,” says Friedlander, adding that it’s all about the surprise. “I hope The Strand gives people a sense of wonder.

Just walk through the shelves and you’ll find something incredible.”

Despite the nuances of the technological age that has ushered in eBooks, Kindles and Nooks, print publications have maintained a steady fan base of traditionalists. As of July 2016, The Strand was listed to have possessed 2.5 million books and there is a constant steady flow of customers who buy them.

“Time stands still when you walk through the door,” says Wyden. “People feel like it’s their happy place, a little bit of a sanctuary, a community and a place of discovery where you don’t exactly know what you’re going to find.”

The Strand Bookstore is located at 828 Broadway at 12th Street in Manhattan. For more information, visit www. strandbooks.com.

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A Farmer’s Heirloom T A fresh ingredient straight from the garden By Steve Mosco

hank goodness for fanatical seed savers.

Sometime before the 1930s, an opportunistic farmer somewhere in America noticed a plant was producing a tomato that was uniform in shape and color. The rounded shape made shipping the fruit a breeze and the all-red color was more enticing to customers’ eyes.

So, after agricultural experiments, a new tomato variety containing this “uniform ripening” mutation was released—they dubbed it, All Red. But breeding uniformity into tomatoes had the unfortunate side effect of sucking out all the flavor. Now the bulk of tomatoes we eat today pale in comparison to the tomatoes of a century ago.

Because we demanded tomatoes outside of the traditional season of June through October, and ones more cost-effective to ship, what we’ve ended up with is a perfectly round and perfectly boring tomato with bland flavor, along with a plastic exterior and a Styrofoam-esque interior.

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Making It Uptown Chef Marcus Samuelsson and Harlem’s latest renewal By Steve Mosco

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he enlivening term “Harlem Renaissance” is often used to describe the upside of the uptown neighborhood’s many boom-and-bust cycles—with shifts to economic prosperity ushering in myriad cultural movements.

Food tends to follow good fortune and while the streets of Harlem have always been dotted with remarkable eateries, recent history has accelerated the growth of the area’s restaurant scene, from Central Harlem towards the Hudson River in the West and back across the neighborhood to the East River.

Harlem is lively, loud and always animated—and the restaurants move to that same rhythm. One of the village’s famed eateries, Red Rooster, was conceived by internationally renowned chef and Harlem transplant Marcus Samuelsson. Ethiopian-born and Swedish-raised, Samuelsson embodies the very spirit of his chosen home and his restaurant reflects the deeply diverse cultural mixture.

“The Harlem food scene is one of the most exciting in the world,” says Samuelsson, adding that the village of Harlem brings a diverse and delicious array of options from various cultures. “This community is home to African-American, Latino, Jewish, Italian, Caribbean and others. You get the expected and unexpected in Harlem. I’m constantly

influenced by the creative culinary forces around me and it’s one of the most exciting places to be.”

It was the combination of Harlem’s rich culture and unwavering encouragement from his mother that led Samuelsson to hang his chef’s jacket in Harlem at Red Rooster in 2010.

“It took me over five years to open the restaurant after deciding to do so,” he

A boisterous bar greets guests in the Harlem hot spot Red Rooster, with inventive cocktails liberating eaters before the dining room’s main event.

Marcus Samuelsson’s favorites from Red Rooster’s menu include Helga’s Meatballs, with short rib, pickled gravy and bacon-lingonberry jam; Obama Short Ribs, a slow-roasted beef rib and succotash with dumplings, a scallion pancake and chili sauce; and the top dish, Fried Yardbird, a sublimely decadent fried chicken dish with dark meat, sweet potato mash, collard greens and pickles.

Perhaps the most visually striking dish on the menu is the Royale, a whole fried chicken for two. The server brings out the bird and presents it to its wide-eyed eaters, then takes it back to the kitchen where it is cut into pieces. The Royale’s best feature, its fried skin, is golden and crisp, while the meat excels in juiciness.

Other dishes that pulse with the bustling dining room are the unctuously extravagant Shrimp and Jerk Pork Belly Hot Rice, a deeply spiced dish with pineapple, aged basmati rice and curry leaves; as well as thick panels of buttery cornbread, paired with a pat of luscious honey butter and an African-spiced tomato jam.

For a sweet touch after the meal, Red Rooster’s Coffee And Doughnuts is the dessert equivalent of a wink and a smirk, as mocha-filled donut holes are served warm with a side of dulce de leche ice cream for dunking.

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CULINARY CORNER says. “I spent a lot of time researching the neighborhood, connecting with the locals and I really wanted to bring something the neighborhood wanted. It was important to create a place in and of the community.”

Serving comfort food that celebrates American roots with varied international twists, Red Rooster was named in honor of a legendary Harlem speakeasy whose spirit lives on downstairs at Ginny’s Supper Club, where live music supplements the succulence of the restaurant’s menu.

Red Rooster’s menu coalesces the chef’s early life, his travels and Harlem itself.

“The menu is a good mix of my background, my travels and neighborhood favorites,” says the international chef. “You’ll see a mix of Swedish influence, Ethiopian, American comfort food, Latin and seasonal ingredients. The décor is a reflection of the Harlem community with art, music, style and the locals.”

Samuelsson’s own richly diverse background marries perfectly to the epic poem that is Harlem’s history. This is illustrated deliciously in Samuelsson’s Red Rooster

Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem, a food-driven love letter to Harlem the chef released last year.

In the book, the chef supplements his favorite recipes with odes to Harlem, as well as his cuisine’s varied connections to his own off-center upbringing. Of all the dishes on Red Rooster’s menu, the chef says that Helga’s Meatballs offers the truest taste of his personal background.

“I’ve had it on the menu since we opened and it’s a favorite among our guests,” he says. “My grandmother Helga was one of the

first people who taught me how to cook and she showed me how to work with the ingredients I have and make it delicious.”

Samuelsson’s family roots taught him more than simply which ingredients to use and when to use them. It instilled in him the strength born from a hard day’s work—a lesson learned as a youngster in Sweden.

“My first job was a fisherman when I was young. Growing up in Sweden, I would go fishing with my uncles and it was a long hard day of work but very rewarding,” Samuelsson says. “I loved getting to bond with them at sea and then we’d come back, make the sale on the fish, go home and cook dinner. It taught me how to work hard.”

Those years of hard work on fishing boats in Sweden and in kitchens across the globe have all led Samuelsson to Harlem—and to a world where food leads a new renaissance.

“People have become much more aware in recent years about where their food comes from and who’s curating their dining experience,” he says. “I’m super excited that the audience for food culture keeps growing and look forward to seeing what’s next.”

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orgeous, sweeping and grand, the recent Broadway production of Anastasia is a new telling of a classic tale for a modern audience. Inspired by the 1997 animated feature, the 1956 film starring Ingrid Bergman and true historical events, the stage version takes on a life of its own, while staying true to the source material. The creative team and talented cast can take credit for that.

“What’s so great about this piece is Terrence McNally wrote the book and Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty wrote

the music and lyrics—so haunting and filled with emotion,” says Christy Altomare, who plays Anya, the lead of the show.

Derek Klena, who plays Anya’s love interest Dmitry, agrees. While he feels connected to the earlier versions, especially the animated film that he grew up with, Klena feels that it is different from other depictions. “That’s the beauty and privilege of developing this show from scratch—that we get to create these characters, create these plotlines and story arcs and create our own quips without

Far left: Anya (Christy Altomare) arrives in Paris in search of her grandmother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. Above: Can a princess (Altomare) end up with a con man (Klena)? (Photos by Matthew Murphy) Left: Ramin Karimloo, Christy Altomare and Derek Klena star in Anastasia the Musical, a timeless story full of mystery, romance and optimism.

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focusing on anything previous,” he says.

Anastasia the Musical is different from its predecessors. But the overall theme of hope for a better future endures.

“I feel one thing that the world especially needs right now is optimism and that is one quality that Anya has that is innately within her and carries her through the show,” says Altomare.

Klena expands on the message. “Three words repeated throughout the film are ‘home, love, family,’ an element [we bring into] the show” he says. “It really does speak to all ages—about finding a place

in the world, in an ever-changing crazy life. And it’s a timeless idea.”

The ‘home, love, family’ motif extends beyond the narrative of the play and into the lives of those involved in the show.

Many of the cast members and ensemble players from the spring of 2017 Hartford, CT, production of Anastasia continued on to Broadway. Altomare says it feels like a family, with a few new members.

“A good director is someone who is able to cast well,” she says. “One of the most amazing skills of Darko [Tresnjak] is his ability to cast people who are genuinely

hard workers, who are willing to put the time in to do the best they can, and also have a good heart and be good people deep down inside.”

Altomare speaks highly of all of her colleagues, as do they of her. Klena and Altomare had played love interests once before in the 2012 Off-Broadway revival of Carrie, and have remained friends since. Knowing that they already clicked reassured him that the show would be a pleasurable experience. And it is.

Klena also credits Tresnjak with creating a warm and nurturing atmosphere behindthe-scenes. “He is the best leader I’ve ever gotten to work with in this environment,” he says. “Darko can put everyone in a room in a good state of mind.”

Klena caught the acting bug early.

During an “epic trip” to New York City during his youth, he saw Wicked, with some of the original cast, Rent and a revival of 42nd Street. “I knew that I wanted to do this and [that trip] was one of the defining factors of pursuing this career and growing a love and passion for it,” he says. Perhaps it was destiny that he was part of the 10th BOULEVARD 41

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anniversary cast of Wicked.

Whenever possible, Klena reunites with Academy Award-winning songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, with whom he worked on Off-Broadway’s Dogfight in 2012. In April 2015, he performed at a Pasek and Paul & Friends concert at Port Washington’s Landmark on Main Street. “They gave me an opportunity to be part of one of the best theater experiences in my life,” Klena says. “Getting to work with them on Dogfight changed my life and helped me grow as an actor.”

In addition to a career in theater, Altomare is also a singer-songwriter. She has recorded three original albums and hopes to make more. “If it is possible to lay down another CD, that would be incredible. That’s something I’m working towards,” she says.

For now, both actors are immersed in the fairy tale-like world of Anastasia. “It’s a dream,” says Klena, “and it’s a privilege for us.”

“Getting to tell that story in her skin is really rewarding for me because I do believe in this character, in the kind of person that she is,” Altomare adds. “I feel this sense of joy and gratitude every day that I get to live out my dream.”

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Prima Ballerina From her outstanding body of work, her unwavering grace and exuding emotion every time her pointe shoe touches the stage, Misty Copeland epitomizes everything classical about the art of ballet and more. By Jennifer Fauci

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world. “It’s surreal and something that probably won’t sink in fully until I’m done dancing.”

The 34-year-old, who was born in Kansas City, but raised in Los Angeles, understands that she is in an incredibly unique position to be in a company

like the prestigious American Ballet Theatre (ABT), of which she says is the “first company in ballet history to present such an array of different talent and unify dancers from all over the world.” And as the first African-American woman to be promoted to principal

Photo by Henry Leutwyler

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ach day, I can’t help but feel so unbelievably grateful and honored to carry this title,” Misty Copeland says of being a principal dancer for one of the most renowned ballet companies in the

The soloist performs in Coppélia

(Photo by Naim Chidiac)

dancer in ABT’s 75-year history, she is more than humbled to thank others for helping her get there.

“I feel like I am a vessel for all of the black dancers who have paved the way for me to get here. It’s crazy that it’s finally happened and even more so that it is me,” she says of the once-in-alifetime experience. “It’s impossible to quantify one’s talents in such a subjective art form. With that said, I know that I am here because of my work ethic, perseverance and unique interpretation of ballet.”

That dogged determination has earned Copeland lead roles in Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet and The Firebird, as well as Don Quixote and Giselle, which she is currently performing for the spring schedule. Copeland has been dancing professionally for 16 years and goes through 10 pairs of pointe shoes per week. Having graced the stage in dozens of other productions, she says that as of now, Juliet is her favorite role.

“I will dance many more roles

throughout my career so I know that this will be ever-changing, but one thing I’ve learned over the past two years is that I thrive in story ballets,” says Copeland. “I feel my true gift is my ability to tell a story through the ballet technique rather than simply being a technician and executing steps.

I really need a story to elevate my performance.”

Like any professional athlete, Copeland puts a great deal of time and effort into maintaining a healthy body and lifestyle through eating well, exercising and, of course, dancing. Her third book, Ballerina Body, hit shelves earlier this spring and details how a healthy lifestyle is possible to achieve without dieting or fitness fads.

“It’s a lifestyle choice that will fuel you and help you feel your best, not just look your best. In Ballerina Body, I share bits of my experiences and give women a different insight into what it is to be your healthiest self and create your own version of a ballerina body,”

says Copeland, who also includes her own recipes, words of encouragement, as well as different exercises that she and some of her personal coaches have developed that follow the basics and structures of the ballet technique. “It’s amazing to have an opportunity to share my journey through both books (Copeland’s first book, Life In Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, debuted in 2014).

It’s teaching people beyond the ballet world and giving them hope.”

With a physically demanding career, Copeland has come back from some serious injuries. When she cannot express herself on stage, she says she continues to “dance in her mind and heart.”

“When that feeling dies, it’s impossible to come back. Your emotions and psychological state are incredibly tied to your ability to perform and heal,” she says. “You just have to believe that the work you’re doing to recover will work.”

Having single-handedly changed the face and landscape of ballet, Copeland says that she does not sit back and BOULEVARD 47

CELEBRITY PROFILE reflect on what that honor means, simply to give hope to street kids in Rwanda and because it is such a big responsibility provide them access to a better education to own. Being the modest person she is, with the goal of getting them scholarships Copeland instead expresses her gratitude to attend boarding school and break the to others before her. cycle of poverty in their families. She “I know that my voice and visibility has also has a special place in her heart for accomplished a lot, but it’s not without the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, which work that has been done became like a second for generations, the family to her. efforts of other black “I took my first ballet I FEEL LIKE I class dancers, and the support there at 13 through from the black communia diversity scholarship AM A VESSEL FOR ty to make the huge effort search,” says Copeland, ALL OF THE BLACK who has been a spokesto get it, support and force that change,” she person and ambassador DANCERS WHO for several years. “I also says, advising others who want to follow in her perto start a diverHAVE PAVED THE helped fectly pointed footsteps sity initiative with the that all they need is hard WAY FOR ME TO clubs and ABT called work. “Know that your Project Plié, a program background and circumsimilar to the one that GET HERE. stances don’t define you. brought me to ballet.”

You can create your own journey to happiDancer, public speaker, spokesperson, ness and success. Believe in yourself and role model, author and one of Time’s most don’t be afraid to accept guidance.” influential people, Copeland chooses to Always aware of her fortunate opporexert her powerful influence the best way tunities in life, Copeland is committed to she knows how: by being her best self and giving back in any way she can. Her char- in that vein, being true to who she is, even itable endeavors include MindLeaps, an if that means sharing her successes as organization that uses dance and the arts well as struggles.

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Above: What’s in a name? Copeland as Juliet in Romeo & Juliet (Photo by Gene Schiavone) Top: Life in Motion (Photo by Gregg Delman)

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“It’s important to be honest with children. Let them know it’s not easy work to get to where you want to be, but that they’re not in it alone,” she says. “Most importantly, don’t give up. Every day is a chance to start again and be better.”

The star ballerina continues to dip her hand into a variety of ventures. She is an Under Armour Athlete and also has partnerships with Dannon Oikos Greek Yogurt and Seiko. No matter what her future holds, Copeland has maintained that ballet will be at the forefront of her life.

“That work [dance] comes first always.

I wake up every morning with the goal of being a better, more articulate dancer, a better and more expressive and true artist,” says Copeland, who feels that dance is a means of communicating in an otherworldly way. “It goes beyond what words can communicate. It makes you feel, breathe, sing and live, all through movement. I believe that my story goes beyond ballet. It’s a story of fight, perseverance, support and overcoming obstacles.”

While it may seem like she is pirouetting through life, Copeland takes in every minute of her real life fairy tale dream.

Even with her edge and take notice attitude, Misty Copeland is still the perfect prima ballerina that everyone loves to watch dance across the stage, long after the curtain closes.

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f luck is the crossroads where opportunity meets preparation, then it’s clear that Idina Menzel has been going through life with the spiritual equivalent of a four-leaf clover hanging over her head. Menzel went from a 1996 professional musical Tony-nominated debut as an original cast member of the Off-Broadway and Broadway versions of Rent to later playing Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, alongside Kristin Chenoweth in Wicked. Having won a 2004 Tony Award for that role, the Queens native received her third Tony nod for starring as Elizabeth in the 2013 musical If/Then. All this before landing on the radar of little girls everywhere as the voice of Queen Elsa in the 2013 film Frozen, where she sang the immortal Oscar- and Grammy-winning song “Let It Go.” The groundswell of popularity and success that came with being part of this particular project even has the singer shaking her head.

“Professionally, [Frozen is] one of the best things that ever happened to me,” she says with a laugh. “When you can have success in your career and it really touches people and connects with young people especially, there’s something even more special and profound about that kind of accomplishment. I had no idea it would be as big as it is. I count my lucky stars and look forward to doing the upcoming sequel. Once every decade, I get a sort of a zeitgeist type of opportunity and I’m just very, very lucky.”

These are quite the professional heights attained by the alum of J. Irving Baylis Elementary School, Harry B. Thompson Middle and Syosset High School, who is currently touring behind last year’s idina., her fifth solo effort and first non-holiday recording since 2008’s I Stand. With one of the early dates being at the newly renovated and rechristened Nassau Coliseum on the heels of local icon Billy Joel playing opening night, Menzel is enjoying quite a homecoming.

“The show on Long Island was a big deal to me, because I grew up going to Nassau Coliseum. I saw U2 play there.

That was one of the first concerts ever.

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And the fact that Billy Joel was there two nights before me and opening it up was all very nostalgic and exciting for me,” she says wistfully.

Still very much a Long Island gal at heart, Menzel has plenty of great memories of going to school in Syosset. She’s still friendly with former teacher Lydia Esslinger, who came out for the Coliseum show. Menzel also speaks fondly of other influential educators including the late Elliot Bean and Roslyn Pincus (“She was my favorite teacher of all time and encouraged all of us in the fourth grade to be very creative and to read poetry.”)

Having grown up in such an upscale area doesn’t mean she wasn’t aware of economic disparities that might make for fraught and bittersweet teen years.

“I have memories of [the district] being extremely supportive of the arts and being in an affluent area where people

put a lot of money towards the arts. So I was able to really travel with a choir and put on school plays with great teachers, lessons and all that kind of stuff. That was one of the best things about growing up there,” Menzel recalled. “I remember plenty of kids having a lot of money and I was on the low end of middle class and so it was hard to grow up around that.

There was a lot of entitlement. I think it’s hard for a kid to have an understanding and perspective of what they are lucky to have. I didn’t have as many Jordache jeans as someone else (laughs). I did understand that I was very lucky and that my parents gave me a great many things on my father’s pajama salesman’s salary.”

Despite the groundswell her professional path has taken, Menzel’s personal life has taken a beating in recent years.

After giving birth to son Walker Nathaniel Diggs, her decade-long marriage to fellow Rent cast member Taye Diggs ended in a 2014 divorce. Last September, she announced her engagement to actor Aaron Lohr, who she met when both appeared in the 2005 film adaptation of Rent. This recent emotional rollercoaster ride that is her personal life is reflected throughout the dozen songs on the new record.

Highlights include the piano ode “Last Time,” with Menzel going from a slow build into the lines, “Don’t let the last time I saw you/Be the last time” and “I See You,” a power ballad not unlike Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” that hits home with aching couplets like, “Here’s to the lonely/To the broken-hearted/I want you to know I feel your pain/Here’s to the hopeless/The almost forgotten/To those who got lost along the way.” This latest record found Menzel revisiting and working her way through some of those hard recent moments.

“I had a lot to write about. I’d gone through a lot of changes in my life. I was going through a divorce while simultaneously, my whole professional life was taking off,” she says. “I met someone that I love very much after I got divorced, so there’s a lot of rebirth and there’s a lot of sadness and regret. There was a lot to write about.”

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Canada’s Piano Man Paul Shaffer returns with a star-studded solo album By Dave Gil de Rubio

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o say Paul Shaffer gets around is an understatement. Best known for his 33-year association with David Letterman in the role of friend/ musical director/first banana, the 67-year-old pianist has enough experience under his belt to serve as the lives of three or four other people. He was house band member for the initial five-year run of Saturday Night Live’s original Not Ready for Prime-Time Players from 1975 to 1980, was part of (Photo the inner circle of a number of courtesy comedic legends (Martin Short, of CBS) Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin), was offered the role of George Costanza on Seinfeld and can be heard pounding out the distinctive synthesizer solo at the heart of the 1982 Scandal hit “Goodbye to You.” The affable Canadian musician’s connection for most people is via Letterman, so when the talk show host walked away from the late night world in 2015, Shaffer suddenly found himself with lots of time on his hands. And while initially embracing this transition, he wasn’t truly happy until record company mogul Seymour Stein offered him the opportunity to record what became Shaffer’s third studio outing, this year’s Paul Shaffer and the World’s Most Dangerous Band. His return to the role of recording artist wound up coming at the perfect time.

“As much as one may think they are prepared for

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[quasi-retirement], you went from going 100 miles an hour every single day down to zero. Still, with this feeling of ‘It’s time to stop and smell the roses,’ I got so depressed. I’m not cut out for that,” he explains. “I got this call from Seymour Stein asking if I’d like to cut a record. He’s a friend that I’ve gotten to know over the years from working with him on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a legendary record man. I started working on this record, cheered up immediately, realized that playing the piano is the way for me to go and that’s what I’ve got to keep doing.

I couldn’t be more excited.”

Helming the recording is storied producer and songwriter Richard Gottehrer, who Shaffer used to work for as a session musician back in the 1970s.

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“For all that funny stuff [Bill] did on SNL, he loves to sing. His Netflix special is wallto-wall music—it’s mostly him singing,” Shaffer says. “On this one, he was under the microscope in the studio and he really came through and delivered.”

Shaffer’s adventures included a brief stint costarring in A Year At the Top, a 1977 CBS sitcom co-produced by Norman Lear and Don Kirshner and costarring television star Greg Evigan. This series based on the Faust legend featured Shaffer and Evigan as two struggling musicians who make a pact with the son of the devil for a year of success lasted only five episodes, but gave the former a valuable impression that gave him his SNL on-camera debut.

“I moved to California and it took a whole year to do the five episodes that ended up airing,” he says. “Nobody was interested in picking it up and I was lucky enough to get

my old job back on SNL. But when I came back, I was armed with the impression of Don Kirshner that I had developed while I

was out there.”

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Formal classical music lessons started when Shaffer was 6 (“My mother believed that

when a kid is old enough to read English, he’s old enough to take lessons and read music”), but it was rock and roll radio’s siren song that had the young Thunder Bay native learning how to play by ear while developing an affinity for Del Shannon and The Four Seasons (“When the Four Seasons were on The Ed Sullivan Show, I almost didn’t notice when The Beatles appeared on there.”) In high school, Shaffer saw his first concert (Liberace at a local hockey arena), and was a devout fan of the Guess Who (“Before they had their hits, they were the greatest cover band”) and numerous R&B Toronto-area groups including Mandala, Luke & The Apostles and Jon and Lee and the Checkmates.

Shaffer also opened for Eric Burdon and the New Animals and The Troggs. But it was a

1972 Toronto production of Godspell that was a seminal moment. Here, show composer Steven Schwartz asked Shaffer, who was accompanying his girlfriend to the audition, to play piano for the tryouts before offering him the show conductor position. This big break was also a glimpse into sketch comedy’s future.

“SCTV certainly started there in that little production of Godspell with Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin and Marty in it and yes, front row seat I had,” he recalls. “I was influenced comedically by those people for sure. I started to learn how they were doing what they were doing, always making people laugh and really having more fun with their lives because of it. And I started to try to be a little bit more like them and I will admit it now.

It’s true. They were very influential to me.”

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t’s easy to write off athletes as pretentious—their egos inflated by adoring fans and fawning press, their sensibilities dulled by derision from those same parties. That isn’t Curtis Granderson. A great ballplayer and a better person, he’s unaffected by his nearly 15 years in the majors.

Through slumps and hot streaks, the outfielder has remained approachable in the clubhouse and charitable in the community, from Detroit through two stops in New York. Granderson talks about the fans, athletes as role models, memorable moments and more.

Q: What would you say is the main difference between the two New York fan bases?

A: With the Yankees, they’ve been so good for so long that it’s easy to have positive memories of the team, so from a historical perspective, the fans expect to win. On the Mets side, there’s an intense passion because there have been big gaps between successes. But in New York, there are so many different things that can draw a fan’s attention: two baseball teams, two basketball teams, three hockey teams, two football teams.

Whereas in Michigan, the entire state gets behind [the Tigers].

Q: What is it like experiencing the Mets-Yankees rivalry from both sides?

A: I was talking to [Derek] Jeter about the 2000 World Series and he told me, “it was the World Series we had to win.”

But when I first played against the Mets in the regular season, we were so locked into the American League East race, that I didn’t feel that same rivalry. And now playing for the Mets against the Yankees, it’s the same thing. As a player, you are focused on your division and your league, but we know the fans always look forward to it. No matter what the standings look like, both stadiums are packed and from the field you can see the different jerseys and how mixed up the fans are.

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Q: What are some of your personal standout moments in professional baseball?

A: In Detroit, making it to the World Series in 2006. No one really expected us to. We got off to this start that no one expected. People thought it was going to fade, but it just never faded. Then there’s the milestone in 2007 (20 doubles, 20 triples, 20 home runs, 20 stolen bases. Granderson was the first to do it since Willie Mays in 1957).

Q: Do you think athletes should be viewed as role models?

A: No matter what we do, we have a role model responsibility. At the same time I feel like the biggest role model to any individual should be those closest to you. But the reality is, including myself as a kid, there’s people I looked up to and marveled at—Ken Griffey

Curtis Granderson excels on the field and in the community.

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Jr. was an idol of mine because he did things that I wanted to do one day. So when I look back, I can’t say that him or Michael Jordan were role models, they were idols and people I wanted to emulate. I think that’s where we get mixed up, because whoever you’re going to be around for 40 hours of the week should have the impact. For me, it was my mom, my dad, my neighbors, some teachers—those are the people that stand out for me.

Q: Both of your parents are educators. How did that influence how you approach baseball?

A: If anything, it helped me realize there’s always a process, and to get to wherever you want to get to, you have to take the proper steps. I always had some room to improve and I’ve always had some slight doubt against me.

When I got drafted, I wasn’t strong enough to play the corners, I wasn’t fast enough to play center field and I panned out to be potentially a fourth outfielder. So I thought, “OK, how do I maximize my potential? How do I take what I have and prove people wrong?”

And that’s where the process comes from. My parents would help students start somewhere, practice and then ultimately reach the result that they wanted. I think being around them and seeing that helped get me to where I am today.

Q: You started the Grand Kids Foundation in 2007. How did you decide that was the type of player you wanted to be?

A: I think I had always been doing it and didn’t know that’s what I was doing, by just watching my family. Seeing it

and being around it, it became second nature. Education had always been a passion for me and that’s what I wanted to focus on. In Detroit at the time, the graduation rate was only at 50 percent, so it linked in well with where I was. We worked with Detroit Public School system and developed our first children’s book. When I was traded to New York, the foundation grew. We’ve been able to do stuff with youth baseball here, at different schools in different boroughs.

We’ve been able to expand and ask what exactly is education—it’s not just going to the class, learning something and then going home. The foundation teaches kids about proper nutrition to help kids focus and pay attention. We also help kids stay in shape. If you are lethargic and out of shape, it makes it even more difficult to do the things you need to do in the classroom.

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estled in the brush on the shoreline of Lloyd Harbor stands Panfield, the magnificent estate of Bernadette Castro, heir to Castro Convertibles, the modern-day furniture pioneers of the pull-out sofa. The company is still in existence today, sold online and through the Home Shopping Network (HSN). Castro became a sensation at the age of 4 as the company’s spokesmodel. She served as commissioner of the New York Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation from 1995 to 2006.

The Tudor revival/Jacobean designed estate was originally built for Albert Goodsell and Margery Robbins Milbank in 1915.

In the late 1960s, Bernard Castro went house hunting with his daughter, Bernadette, her husband and their 9-month-old baby “in the country.” The family was in search of a multi-generational estate.

“We walked in the front door [of Panfield] and he was in love; it reminded him of everything grand in Europe,” says Castro.

The Castros purchased the home from

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Salvatore Giordano, Sr., former CEO and executive chairman of Fedders Corporations, the home air conditioning pioneers.

Giordano purchased the home in 1957 and subdivided most of the property.

Panfield boasts 25 rooms and more than 13 bathrooms. Every room has a fireplace and the floors are glorious maple.

“The foyer of Panfield is the wow factor of this home,” says Castro. And it is. Its symmetric, oak-lined walls stretch more than 30 feet and are adorned with hand-painted portraits, all meticulously captured by Dutch painter Kenneth Van Rensselaer.

She confesses she loves all of the rooms in the home, as each has its own appeal and brings joy for different reasons.

“The living room is most special because it’s where all of the grandkids hang out when they visit,” says Castro, mother of four and grandmother to eight.

“Panfield is a grand ol’ girl with lots of good karma,” she says, adding, “one of the best memories of the house has to be when my

parents and my husband were alive and we’d have the big family Christmases.”

Despite its elegance, Castro confides that Panfield has been a regular home to her family and that she will continue with her preservation of the home and community.

“To me, Panfield is a family legacy. I look at Panfield as doing my part,” says Castro. “I have served the state through stewardship and now I am the steward of Panfield.”

On facing page: Panfield, the Tudor revival/Jacobean designed estate was originally built for Albert Goodsell and Margery Robbins Milbank in 1915; the living room is punctuated with the Castro Convertibles product line. Above, top: Panfield’s main foyer; bottom left: the harbor-facing courtyard; bottom, right: Panfield’s library is the perfect place for Castro to enjoy her morning reading and prayers. (Photos by David Guarino)

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yth and legend are a huge part of Anne Rice’s oeuvre given the fact that so much of her legacy is plugged into the world of vampires, something she was writing about long before Twilight or True Blood ever came along.

With her latest effort, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis (Knopf), Rice intertwines her rock-star-turned-vampire-king protagonist Lestat with the fictional isle of Atlantis. And while the Louisiana native initially started out trying to pen a project about the latter, Lestat proved to help break the New Orleans native’s writer’s block.

“I’ve always been enthralled with Plato’s tantalizing story of the lost kingdom of Atlantis. Reading Graham Hancock’s fascinating book Underworld—about the possibility of a worldwide rise in sea levels 12,000 years ago—heightened my interest and then there was Edgar Cayce’s amazing reports about Atlantis,” she explains. “It all fed into what became an obsession on my part with doing my own version of the lost civilization. So I developed a book called Born for Atlantis with a whole cast of characters that I loved.

But I was stalled on it until it occurred to me to bring Lestat into the mix, to connect the tragedy of Atlantis with my vampires. It proved magical for me and the new Lestat novel caught fire.”

Given that Rice’s literary bailiwick has been vampires, she had ironically never read Bram Stoker’s totemic Dracula. Hollywood instead served as her primary inspiration.

“As a child, I’d seen a jewel-like black and white film entitled Dracula’s Daughter, the charm and ambiance of which I never forgot. I wanted to explore vampires as tragic figures, beings of heightened sensitivity and

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Anne Rice (Photo by Michael Lionstar)

awareness cursed by their need to drink human blood,” she says. “I was also much inspired by a miniseries I saw called Frankenstein, the True Story (1973), penned by Christopher Isherwood, which gave a lush and sensuous treatment to the classic tale. I wanted to write something romantic, erotic and beautiful about vampires. I wanted them to be the focus and to be on their side. That’s how it all started for me.”

In the four-plus decades since Rice made her publishing debut with 1976’s Interview With the Vampire, she has churned out series centered on non-vampire centered beings. But regardless of how far afield she’s gone with these other books, Rice has always returned to vampires, particularly the notion of them being romanticized beings. It is this approach that’s made her much loved in the goth community, particularly when it comes to the fictional Lestat, a character she’s returned

to on a continual basis.

“I can’t explain why Lestat means so much to me. Of all the characters I’ve explored, he provides me with the most intensity when I write. He feels utterly real and he’s with me everywhere I go, witnessing the world with me,” she says. “When I write from his point of view, it is as if I’m channeling a personality that is distinct from me and has marvelous stories to tell me. Lestat was inspired by my husband, Stan. I modeled Lestat on him physically and his strength and convictions fired the personality of Lestat. But at some point, Lestat became his indomitable self, and I let the character go. I yielded to Lestat and with The Vampire Lestat, the Vampire Chronicles was born.”

Lestat and the rest of Rice’s fictional vampire coven boasts a deeply loyal fan base that can be traced to the complexity of the characters. While bearing predominantly immortal attributes, Rice has given these bloodsuckers clay feet, which allowed her to introduce a bit of complexity to their makeup. Its end result has been to make her just as eager to further write about them, particularly Lestat, as it is to have readers eagerly await their next appearance in print.

“Lestat’s appeal is his complexity.

He’s bold, brash, a born rebel and won’t settle for the world’s opinion of him or vampires in general. Yet at heart, he’s loving and ruthlessly honest and readers have always gotten that. Lestat is a tragic hero and a comic hero. He’s caught in an impossible situation—he’s immortal as long as he drinks human blood,” she says. “But he is a comic hero in the sense that he is never securely defeated. No matter who tries to destroy him, Lestat triumphs and comes back. I can’t wait to write the next book about Lestat.”

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Emmy and Tony Award winner and six-time Academy Award nominee Glenn Close was honored with the Theatre Artist Award. Roe Green, visionary arts philanthropist, received the Theatre Forward Leadership Award and Center Theatre Group received the Achievement in Theatre Award on behalf of their 50th anniversary.

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The 35th Annual Reach for a Star Luncheon, presented by Americana Manhasset, delivered a “wicked� good time in benefit of students with severe physical disabilities at the Henry Viscardi School (HVS) at The Viscardi Center. Special guest Jennifer DiNoia, who plays Elphaba in the long-running musical Wicked on Broadway, performed, drawing 500 attendees to the Crest Hollow Country Club. The event raised more than $280,000 to be directed toward afterschool programs and extracurricular activities at the school. Students at HVS often require life-sustaining medical support throughout the day, leaving few options for socialization outside the classroom.

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