Giving it her all: Sports Illustrated swimsuit supermodel, wife of Grammy winner John Legend and Nolita resident Chrissy Teigen was signing autographs and meeting her fans Tuesday morning at the S.I. Swim City pop-up pavilion in Herald Square. She and other S.I. models were promoting the mag’s new swimsuit issue, which was just hitting the newsstands. From the look of it, Teigen was giving “all of her” at the event, allowing an adoring fan to give her a smooch on the cheek, at right.
Where was Glick? This much we do know, that Assemblymember Deborah Glick, by all appearances, definitely liked Cathy Nolan over Carl Heastie to be the next Assembly speaker following Sheldon Silver’s inglorious fall from power. However, Glick never came right out and told us that she was officially backing Nolan. But it could be read between the lines of her concerned tweets before the eventual outcome and also in her comments to us in last week’s issue of The Villager. She felt Nolan was more experienced. Plus, she felt it was high time that Albany’s “Three Men in a Room” became “Two Men and a Woman in a Room.” Glick had wanted to have a longer public process to consider the candidates, lasting until Feb. 10, which is what had originally been promised. Anyway, as everyone knows, Nolan ultimately dropped out and Heastie went on to be unanimously elected on Feb. 3 by his fellow Democratic members to head the Assembly — a week earlier than had been originally planned. But that doesn’t mean all the Democrats actually voted for him. We asked Glick last week how she felt about Heastie’s winning the speakership. “The Assembly operates by consensus,” she answered in an e-mail, “and although I believed we should follow our original plan to vet all candidates and vote on Feb. 10, my perspective was not shared by a majority of my colleagues. After the past tumultuous month, I also believed any questions that had been raised about any of the candidates needed to be responded to, but the consensus was that the vote for speaker should be taken the next day [after Silver’s resignation as speaker]. The vote was taken and I was not present on the Assembly floor and did not participate in the vote.” Glick still has not told us exactly WHY she wasn’t on the floor for the vote — but we suppose we can speculate about that for ourselves.
Shelly Silver, filmmaker: In a change of pace from all the recent commotion in Albany, we checked out Shelly Silver’s art film, “Touch,” at the Simon Preston Gallery, at 301 Broome St., the other weekend. No, Assemblymember Sheldon Silver has not embarked on a new career after being deposed as speaker. We’re talking about Shelly Silver, the filmmaker, who has lived on Catherine St. for more than 40 years. In her 2013 film “Touch,” images of her neighborhood, Chinatown, are complemented with a man narrating the story of how he has returned to his childhood home after 50 years to care for his ailing mother. The fictional protagonist, who remains nameless, is “a librarian, cataloguer and recorder, gay man, watcher and impersonator.” The film contains footage of Woody Allen himself filming on Catherine St., Chinese men playing mahjong and tending their wah mei birds in Sara D. Roosevelt Park and some great vintage photo portraits. During the Q&A afterward, Silver said the latter came from a book she was able to check out of N.Y.U. Bobst Library, “Who’s Who in Chinatown 1916.” She said it’s “a beautiful book” and that she was very surprised they even let her check it out.
