I’m kind of obsessed with the New Orleans-set 1980s movie The Big Easy, featuring Dennis Quaid as a cop with an atrociously stereotypical N’awlins accent (think lots of use of the word “cher” to end every sentence, for example). So I was surprised to read online that it was originally going to be set in Chicago and called Windy City.
Fascinating, right? Okay, maybe not so much. But it gives me an a marvelously clumsy transition to saying I’ll be visiting Chicago twice in the coming months. I’ve updated my travel plans page but the dates are June 28 to July 1 and then August 23 to 25.
Live in Chicago? Want a free meal? Care to help me out and be the first new interview since — whoops — February?
Of course you do! So email me and arrange a dinner and stop stalling already.