tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248358888262357109.post463205851388602673..comments2023-12-23T11:13:30.199-05:00Comments on Hermitage: Wishing you a Happy 100th Birthday "Ruth Ford"Indra's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17247649138345751202noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248358888262357109.post-8980492408779033952013-08-12T00:23:46.847-04:002013-08-12T00:23:46.847-04:00"Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents met in ..."Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents met in Ruth’s living room one night and went on to collaborate with Leonard Bernstein on the movie West Side Story. Edward Albee, Isak Dineson, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and William Faulkner were all good friends of Ruth’s and spent many evenings in her living room. Allen Ginsberg supposedly washed his feet in Ruth’s sink. William Faulkner wrote his one and only play, Requiem for a Nun, specifically for her."<br /><br />Wow.<br /><br />"At that time, I was 21 years old and I’d only seen my first movie the year before, so the fact that this lady I was meeting was a famous actress was meaningless to me."<br /><br />Poignant. <br /><br />"And each evening when I said, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll be going now,” she would say, “Goodnight, Indra Darling, I’ll see you tomorrow.”"<br /><br />Paramendra Kumar Bhagathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00766793808540525578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4248358888262357109.post-15826947755375868542011-07-07T05:33:54.047-04:002011-07-07T05:33:54.047-04:00Lovely.Lovely.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com