All at Once in the Big Apple

It must have been a most interesting encounter for Prince Harry when he attended a panel discussion called “Everything Everywhere All at Once” at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York last week.

It was attended by former president Bill Clinton, his daughter Chelsea, and actor Matt Damon with former TV anchor Katie Couric, who previously gave a scathing review of the Duke of Sussex, 40, in her 2021 memoir.

In Going There, Couric described meeting King Charles III’s youngest son, then 27, “reeking of cigarettes and alcohol” when they met for an interview in Brazil back in 2012.

It was described as his “wild oats sowing phase,” two months before his infamous trip to Las Vegas where he played “strip billiards” naked in his hotel suite.

As his late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, famously said: “Recollections may vary!”

Ellen Opens Up

Montecito comedienne Ellen DeGeneres has opened up about being diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder while revealing she is also grappling with several other health conditions.

The former TV talk show host, 66, shared her litany of problems in her new Netflix comedy special For Your Approval in which she also admitted she went to therapy to deal with “all the hatred” following revelations that she fostered a toxic work environment on The Ellen DeGeneres Show taped
in Burbank.

“It’s funny because I’ve never thought of myself as abrasive. I think of myself as careful and everyone else is out
of control.”

Other ailments include osteoporosis, a bone disease causing bones to become brittle and break easily, and arthritis, a classic condition that causes joint inflammation.

Such are the joys of aging…

Remembering Dame Maggie Smith

On a personal note, I remember the great British actress Dame Maggie Smith, who has died in London aged 89.

Smith, who enjoyed a seven-decade career, was known to U.S. viewers as the Dowager Duchess of Grantham in the series Downton Abbey scripted by Lord Julian Fellowes.

I was lucky enough to catch the two-time Oscar and four-time Emmy winner on stage a number of times including Peter Shaffer’s delightful play Lettice and Lovage with the late Margaret Tyzack on Broadway in 1990, and Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van in London’s West End in 1999, which was later made into a glorious film with the great dame in 2015.

I also saw her in Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance in 1997.

A wise, witty, waspish and wonderful actress.

Sightings

Gwyneth Paltrow at the Yves Saint Laurent show during Paris Fashion Week… Kevin Costner at the History Talks event in L.A… Actor Josh Brolin at Pierre Lafond.

Pip! Pip!