If you haven’t done so already, be sure to get your tickets to the premiere, at Citi Field, at 8 pm on Saturday, August 21, of “The Last Play at Shea,” Billy Joel’s terrific new movie about his historic final concerts at Shea Stadium, the Mets, Shea, the Beatles, Joel, New York, and the sublimity of the ordinary. I actually saw the film twice, when it showed at the Tribeca Film Festival, at which time I posted this review. If you care about music, Shea, baseball, New York, and the future of cinema, you owe it to yourself to see this extraordinary film with thousands of others at Citi Field. I’ll be there of course and you will be able to see me up on the screen a few times as an enthusiastic and perhaps somewhat crazed talking head. (Is that the way I really look? Yeah, but you should have gotten a haircut. I didn’t know I was going to be interviewed on film until that afternoon. Yeah, well that’s why you should always get your haircuts. Maybe it’s better, so that I look like this crazy professor. Yeah, whatever, at least you ended up in the film).
I’ll also be doing a bunch of talks/readings this fall about the eternal pleasures of being a Mets fan. Here’s what’s lined up so far and stay tuned for more:
August 26, 7 pm, The Fairfield Museum and History Center, Fairfield, CT (As part of their terrific series “It’s a Hit!: A Hometown View of our National Pastime”)
September 8, 6:30 pm, Trumbull Public Library, Trumbull, CT
October 4, 7 pm, Tarrytown Public Library, Tarrytown, NY
November 2, 7 pm, Nyack Public Library, Nyack, NY
