Christmas | New York City | Rockefeller Center | Sonja Henie
Candice Bergen's New York City
by
Mark SealONE GREAT NIGHT IN NEW YORK CITY
"I hosted, I think, the fourth Saturday Night Live. I was the
first woman to host the show. And then I hosted three or four shows
later, in December. For that show, a
Christmas show, we were doing
sort of a parody of an Ice Capades, only that was when they were
doing sketches on the killer bees. So John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd
and the whole cast would dress up as bees. They decided to have a
'Bee Capades.' We had to pre-shoot this. It wasn't done live,
because it was such a big production number. We shot it on a Friday
night, late, after the
Rockefeller Center ice rink had closed. I
wasn't a bee; I had sort of a Sonja Henie costume. Red velvet with
a white fur hat and a white fur muff. I looked really stupid,
actually. We all went down in the elevators dressed as bees and me
as Sonja Henie, and the elevator operators were men who had been at
Rockefeller Center all their lives and were now in their 60s and
70s, and they never looked to the side. They just kept their eyes
straight ahead. We had the whole ice rink to ourselves, and there
was a camera on a crane and on top of two of the buildings. We got
to skate around like idiots to Christmas music. At the end,
everybody lay down and spelled out 'Merry Christmas' on the ice. It
was just late at night in New York and one of those moments of
lunacy that seem to sum up the unpredictability and the element of
surprise of the city."
candice bergen's new york city essentials
lodging
the carlyle
very expensive
(212) 744-1600
the mercer
very expensive
(212) 966-6060
60 thompson
very expensive
(212) 431-0400
dining
balthazar
brasserie; moderate
(212) 965-1414
craft
american; very expensive
(212) 780-0880
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