Taking You Back In Time... - Joey Heatherton Now And Then....Ouch !

Taking You Back In Time... - Joey Heatherton Now And Then....Ouch !

I've probably told this story about a zillion times, but Joey Heatherton once hit on me, and got kicked out of the bar/restaurant for pitching a fit after I declined. It happened in uptown Manhattan's toney 3rd Avenue restaurant The Sign of the Dove, in the piano bar. That was an excellent restaurant and a great watering hole, but is no longer there. It was razed around 1999 when its block was cleared for a high-rise.

So it goes.

Anyway, it sounds pretty cool that I shot down Joey Heatherton, but it isn't, for two reasons:

1. At that time she did not look like the "then" picture. THAT Joey Heatherton would not even have acknowledged my existence. She was too busy hanging out with Sinatra and his buds. When I saw her she looked more like the "now" picture, except somewhat younger.

2. The bartender told me that she repeated the same scene more or less every night with some unlucky random schmuck (I guess she lived nearby), and reacted the same way every time the answer was "no," which was frequently.