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Fitzgerald, 46, developed his sense of fair play while growing up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, with parents he has described as "hardworking, straight, decent people." His father, a doorman on Manhattan's Upper East Side, reportedly arrived early for every shift and rarely took vacations. Fitzgerald himself worked as a janitor during high school and as a doorman in the summers while attending Amherst College, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1982. He then received a law degree from Harvard...
...they have their moments. The Great Flamarion, with Erich Von Stroheim as a jilted, jealous lover, begins with a 1 min. 42 sec. opening shot, in which the camera perches outside a Mexico City vaudeville theater, pauses courteously while customers buy their tickets and present them to the doorman, then tracks slowly down the center aisle for the climax of a cape-twirling act and the beginning of a clown routine. We hear gunfire, and the scene changes; the shot ends the shot. Toward the beginning of another 1945 film, the musical Sing Your Way Home, there's a shot...
...them was a software millionaire. That was sort of a glamorous thing, except that he was very weird. He was French, and he lived with his mother on the Upper East Side. It was this doorman, glamorous building. He basically proposed to me after four hours. He was desperate - he'd been in a little software cave, I think, for 12 years. He had not come out. And when he came out, he needed to get married quickly. We met in the Barnes & Noble line, and he was just gung ho. And a little crazy...
Like so many other Americans who work 100-hour weeks, Fitzgerald was born to immigrants. Patrick Sr. and Tillie Fitzgerald, both of County Clare, Ireland, raised four children in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Patrick Sr. was a doorman in Manhattan at a building on East 75th Street, just off Madison Avenue, and he rarely missed a day of work. In the summer, Fitzgerald worked as a doorman too, a few blocks south of his father. But from a young age, Fitzgerald was on track to join the crowds of Upper East Siders swishing past him. He attended Regis High School, a scholarship...
...journalism. TIME's access to Saudi Arabia, for example, was due in large part to Aburish's old friendships. In 1989 he retired from his work, left Beirut and went to live with a son in Seattle. There he held court at the Alexis Hotel, where the former doorman of the St. Georges had taken a job. Abu Said Aburish said he felt very much at home...