Edward Albee: I completed — or not completed — continued my education, by going to see all the great abstract expressionist paintings, and listening to all the contemporary music up at Columbia at McMillan Theatre, going to see all the wonderful Off-Off-Broadway plays.  The paperback book market was around, so when I couldn’t steal a book I could buy it real cheap.  It was good. And, there were a lot of saloons that we all went to, all the writers. All the painters, of course, would go to the Cedar Bar, and you would go there and watch them fall down.  It was sort of nice. And, then all the writers would be going to — what was that bar on the corner of Bleecker and McDougall called?  San Remo. Everybody would be there, sitting around talking.  And, if you wanted to be with the young composers you’d go up to the Russian Tea Room — not the Russian Tea Room — there was a bar on the southwest corner of Carnegie Hall.  I forget what it was called.  And, all the composers would be there. We all knew each other.  Everybody was friendly.  Yeah, it was a nice time.