Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Week 43 - Gilbert
From: Gilbert Plantinga <gilplant@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:58:06 -0500

on 10/29/01 6:31 AM, Rei Shinozuka at shino@ubspainewebber.com wrote:

> well, it would be hard to come up with something like week 7 every week!
> that's an astonishing image.  what's the story behind it?  i work but blocks
> away (52nd and 6th).
> 
> -rei
> 
> 
>> From: Gilbert Plantinga <gilplant@earthlink.net>
>> 
>> On Friday I ran into Bruce Gilden in Times Square and had a great
>> conversation with him. He remembered me, "You're the guy from New Paltz with
>> the shot of the guy jumping off the building!" [See Week 7:
>> http://homepage.mac.com/~gilplant/picaweek/wk7.html]

That building is the Ed Sullivan Theatre. The guy jumping was a stunt man
for the Letterman show. I had been walking up Broadway, saw that 53rd St.
was cordoned off, got curious and stuck around. It was lucky.

Gilbert

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