Salon.com > Robin Sayers http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 02:42:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Pete Campbell (1934-1966) http://www.salon.com/2012/03/30/pete_campbell_1934_1966/ http://www.salon.com/2012/03/30/pete_campbell_1934_1966/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:00:00 +0000 http://entertainment.origin.railrode.net/?p=12762561 Something inexplicable and crazy happened to me back in 2000. I was in L.A., talking on the phone with my friend Gadi in New York. It was June 30 for me, July 1 for him. Out of nowhere I blurted, “Oh my God! Walter Matthau just died.” It was bizarre and creepy, but kinda funny too, because I couldn’t possibly be right. I had no connection to Matthau other than being a huge fan. Gadi bet me $25 I was wrong. The memo line of his pay-up check read “1:42 a.m., July 1 2000,” and he included a simple note: “HERE’S YOUR STINKIN’ BLOOD MONEY!” My friend Ali sums it up best: “The most pointless use of supernatural powers ever.”

Nothing like that ever happened to me before or since, that is, until Sunday night. The flash: Pete Campbell will take a header out a Time & Life Building window, probably around Thanksgiving on the show. (I’m iffy on the when but feeling solid on the who, what and where.)

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