To Have and Have Knot

In his look back today at the many shining lights we lost in 2014, Reed revisits a turning point in his friendship with neighbor Lauren Bacall. One that remains laugh-out-loud hilarious:

No longer sultry and glamorous like the siren who lit up 1940s film noirs, she could be thorny and difficult, acting like a self-centered dowager when her limo blocked the basement entrance to the Dakota apartments in the dark days following the murder of fellow neighbor John Lennon, but everything changed the night I asked her to appear with me onstage at an event to raise money for charity.