The way Bob Brookmeyer looks at the end of 'Train and the River' in Jazz on a Summer's Day - slightly like Jack Lord in 'Dr.No'; hearing Paul Desmond playing 'Take Five' during Woody Allen's 'Mighty Aphrodite'; family shots of the Kennedy brothers; Sinatra with his tie loosened; John Simons perched on his stool; McQueen's mac and chukka boots at the end of 'Bullitt'...
1. Plimpton, just being Plimpton.
2. Those wonderful old guys that I started calling on in the financial district years ago, that first made me aware of the understated elegance of the "Boston cracked shoe" look.
3. Tail gate parties at Ivy league football games 20 years ago. (Sadly, no longer the case.)