I threw the lithograph into the blender.” He put the mulch in old cocaine vials. You can’t print his name he’ll sue me.”Īnother relic was labeled “A gram of Picasso.” “I was high one night, and I scribbled on this Picasso lithograph I owned,” Mr. I also have a receipt for an expert-witness fee from a media mogul. “Some woman once sent me fat from her liposuction. “People give me things all the time,” he said as he pulled open a drawer. Benes-who recently published a book called Curiosa: Celebrity Relics, Historical Fossils, and Other Metamorphic Rubbish -is still growing. “Every once in a while, I go back in there and think to myself, ‘Jesus, I can see somebody coming into my shop a hundred years from now, and the chest is all covered in dust and cobwebs, and they’re gonna think whoever did this had this all set up, ready to go, and must have dropped dead or something.’ But no, I dropped into the book I had to finish.”
But then my publisher called and said, ‘You’re going to have that book by Aug. “I made the carcass of the chest and I cut the pieces for the drawers, and then I was going to dovetail the sides and put the bottom in. Rooney wanted to drive upstate to get to work on a chest of drawers he’d abandoned last summer to finish his book. My clock is set at 5:27 and it never goes off.” And having to write something every day-I still get up very early in the morning. Also, I think the brain atrophies if you don’t use it, like muscles. “I played tennis until I got carpal tunnel.” I think it’s mostly genes. I don’t think the world would be in as much trouble as it’s in if they had been in charge, and I think the reason they have not been, originally, was muscle. Women, though, are in so many ways, broadly speaking, better human beings. “I mean, men are stronger, and this is difficult to argue with. “I think women have found it difficult to find some compensatory attribute to muscle,” he said. “I don’t know-I probably should have let it go, but I didn’t,” Mr. I mean, I’m not a sexist person, but a woman has no business being down there trying to make some comment about a football game.”ĭon Hewitt, 60 Minutes’ executive producer, then suggested that Mr. Rooney caught fire for saying this to sportscaster Boomer Esaison on the latter’s MSG show: “The only thing that really bugs me about television’s coverage is those damn women they have down on the sidelines who don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.
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