Tuesday, March 24, 2015

‘It’s Me, Hilary': Lena Dunham Introduces the Man Behind Children’s Book Icon Eloise

'It's Me, Hilary': Lena Dunham Introduces the Man Behind Children's Book Icon Eloise

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Eloise, the classic fictional picture-book heroine, is “a city child” who causes havoc throughout her indoor backyard, the hallways and public rooms of New York’s ultra-posh Plaza Hotel (“Oooo, I absolutely love the Plaza!” she says). The Plaza prank that always caught my brother’s and my attention, as city children ourselves, was her decision to pour water down the mail chute of the hotel. It prompted us to stand outside our own New York mail chute and ponder doing the same thing, on many a bored afternoon. We never committed, but something tells me that in childhood Lena Dunham, current proud owner of the world’s most well-known Eloise lower back tattoo, would have gone all the way with this endeavor. … Read More

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