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21 Questions

2/26/08

2:15 PM

Lorraine Bracco Also Likes Marilyn Monroe Photos

Lorraine Bracco

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Name: Lorraine Bracco
Age: 53
Job: Actress. Bracco has followed up her iconic role in The Sopranos with a stint on Lipstick Jungle as a whip-cracking publisher. Last night, Seminole Hard Rock Entertainment celebrated her Bracco Wines.
Neighborhood: Chelsea

Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Fanny Brice.

What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Empire Diner's roasted-chicken plate.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Think and/or worry.

Would you still live here on a $35,000 salary?
Does anybody live here on a $35,000 salary?!

What's the last thing you saw on Broadway?
The Year of Magical Thinking.

Do you give money to panhandlers?
It depends on what's in my pockets.

What's your drink?
Bracco Wine, duh.

How often do you prepare your own meals?
In the city, almost never; Bridgehampton, all the time.

What's your favorite medication?
Nothing, I just suffer.

What's hanging above your sofa?
A collection of rare Marilyn Monroe photographs.

How much is too much to spend on a haircut?
I don't care about the money; it's the time in the chair that kills me.

When's bedtime?
Depends on whom I'm with.

Which do you prefer, the old Times Square or the new Times Square?
The new Times Square, except when I'm driving — can't keep my eyes on the road. That's a problem.

What do you think of Donald Trump?
Who dat?

What do you hate most about living in New York?
Not enough closet space.

Who is your mortal enemy?
Time.

When's the last time you drove a car?
Yesterday.

Who should be the next president?
Mike f---ing Bloomberg.

Times, Post, or Daily News?
What, no Wall Street Journal?

Where do you go to be alone?
The stairwell in my building.

What makes someone a New Yorker?
Attitude.

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Edited by Chris Rovzar and Jessica Pressler

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