What an incredible party.
So
here we all were, riding on a bus to Golden Plate Banquet. Frank and I
turned around in our seats to ask George Lucas and Dorothy Hamill, who
were sitting behind us, if there were any tricky parts to the gold
medal ceremony. (They told us there weren’t.) Then we started talking
about the different things that go wrong at Oscar and Nobel ceremonies.
At the banquet, we sat with Frank’s Nobel littermates Aaron Ciechanover, Linda Buck, and David Gross–and John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Flashback to 1970 or so when I was struggling to convince a
classical music fan that there was really good music in rock and roll.
Mrs. Krasner challenged me to play her something convincing.
Because she loved Beethoven (crash, jangle, thump!) I picked
Creedence Clearwater’s “Proud Mary.” I don’t think I really convinced
her to switch from Beethoven based on that playing, but I really enjoyed
telling John Fogerty the story. He’s redhot on stage (and touring now!) but very sweet in person.
So why is this blogger laughing so hard? Just as Linda Buck got
ready to snap the picture, Sam Donaldson popped up behind her and
started giving her devil’s horns.
Isaac Asimov told Marvin Minsky, “Don’t ask any questions, just go.
That was good advice.
If this sounds as if I’m bragging–what can I say?
Blogging about it is as close as I can come to inviting all my blogfriends
to have this fun with me.