The Ice Cream Queen Of Orchard Street: A Novel - Plot & Excerpts
While I am feeding Petunia bits of bacon from the breakfast table, my publicist, Sheila, calls. “Bad news,” she says in her gritty, stuccoed voice. Two packs a day she smokes. If she can taste our ice cream at all, I’m Gina Lollobrigida. “It looks like we may have another problem on our hands. Spreckles the Clown.”“Excuse me?”“Harvey Ballentine.”“Harvey?” I say. “He’s been off the show since 1980.” The most recent actor to play Spreckles was hired by NBC directly. Some nudnik named Jared. “Yeah, well, Harvey Ballentine hasn’t left the limelight,” Sheila says. “There’s a Q&A with him in New York magazine this week.” I get a queasy feeling. Harvey Ballentine had been my sidekick for seventeen years. I’d hired him personally, in fact, right after the first Spreckles the Clown suffered a nervous breakdown. Harvey, he quickly proved to be a pain in the ass, too, yet in a whole new way.
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