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In New York, it's Geoffrey Holder; in D.C. it's Douglas Ginsburg.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Imagine Geoffrey Holder, with his commanding voice, arguing before Judge Douglas Ginsburg.  I have lived in two celebrity towns: Manhattan and Washington, D.C. In Manhattan, I'd pass Lou Jacobi as he dropped off dry cleaning, Geoffrey Holder (see him in the YouTube video above) on a cold weekend afternoon in Greenwich Village, and Madeline Kahn in the audience waiting to see Linda Hunt and Wallly Shawn onstage.  In Washington, D.C., the celebrities more often are political figures. A few months before he resigned, I saw Nixon enter the same hotel where Reagan was shot seven years later. Not long after he purportedly overdosed in the eye of the Iran-Contra storm, I saw Robert MacFarlane, Jr., from the opposite direction on 20th St., NW; with a nod, he broke my surprised look focused on how he symbolized a presidency I strongly opposed, while recognizing the common human denominator that his overdose represented...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 15, 2008 (boomark / email).