DE Weekly: Modernity, Reality, & My Dinner With Andre

“I’ve lived in this city all my life. I grew up on the Upper East Side and when I was ten years old, I was rich, I was an aristocrat, riding around in taxis, surrounded by comfort, and all I thought about was art and music. Now, I am 36, and all I think about is money.”

These words are spoken by Wallace Shawn, playing a fictionalized version of himself in the 1981 film My Dinner With Andre.