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One of Those Many Times I Forgot Myself
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One of Those Many Times I Forgot Myself

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May 19, 2022
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En route back to NYC from a long stint India in 1988, I stopped off in Paris for the fall-winter collections, as all young American screenwriters working in Bollywood are wont to do. The model of the moment was Claude Heidemeyer, elevated by Thierry Mugler, but seemingly in all the shows that year.

A few days before I got into a spat instigated by Roman…

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