Making the Long Trip from the Public Eye to a More Private Life
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F6 The Buffalo News/Sunday, March 23, 2014 F7 Spotlight: Where are they now? Making the long trip from the public eye to a more private life Billie Lawless the 1975 Stanley Cup finals with in June and is still as lovely as ever, of his sister to win his freedom – Philadelphia Flyers. been doing since then? Through her turned into something of a cultural n a late-November day in “In hockey, it came natural in a agency, she declined an interview touchstone. 1984, Buffalo artist Billie sense,” said Lorentz. “There is a lot of request. So we had to turn to “I want to appeal for an end to Lawless got word that hard work connected to condition- the public record to answer that the suffering of all people in the O his controversial public ing. Writing was a whole different question. Middle East,” Say said, at one point sculpture, “Green Lightning,” was experience. One of the most difficult White hasn’t graced the pages during her brother’s captivity, being demolished on the orders of areas was trying to get everything of SI since 2011, but she still gets “including these innocent hostages.” Buffalo Mayor James D. Griffin. arranged in the right spot. It was regular work with companies such Anderson didn’t move back to So he did what any self- a real experience. It was really as H&M, for whom she modeled Batavia after his release and Say respecting artist would do: He drove eye-opening.” lingerie, and with makeup giant had moved away while he was in down to where the sculpture had He doesn’t expect to get rich on Maybelline. And in late January she captivity. been unveiled just days before on a book proceeds. went on BET’s “106 & Park” to talk Anderson was living in patch of grass between Elm and Oak “The audience for Atlantic about her new lingerie line. Kentucky, as of his last visit to the streets and climbed atop the 30-foot salmon fishing isn’t that large as “I want to inspire all women no Buffalo region in 2011, and teaching structure in an attempt to prevent compared to trout fishing,” said matter what shape and size they journalism at a college there. workers from cutting it down. Lorentz. “I don’t expect to make a lot are,” White said, though she didn’t Say relocated out of state with “When I was standing on top of of money or anything like that.” offer details on when and where the her husband, David Say. He died in the sculpture and the guy was start- Lorentz, who is about to turn 67, intimate apparel would be available. 2012 in their hometown of Cookev- ing to cut it and I thought I could die, misses very few TV games. What White is active on Twitter, where ille, Tenn. I was a little nervous,” he said during does he think of the team? she has 25,100 followers, and she Anderson, when contacted by a recent phone interview from his “Not very much,” said Lorentz. frequently posts glamorous pictures The Buffalo News for this story, said studio in Cleveland, where he has “What was surprising to me I wasn’t to Instagram. that he didn’t want to talk about his lived since the early 1990s. “The guy sure what Darcy (former general Her self-description from her life and what he is doing now. was cutting the leg of the sculpture. manager Darcy Regier) was trying Twitter profile is cryptic, ellipses - Charity Vogel That would make anybody nervous.” to do. I thought it was really, really and all: “I am … of the wind. Whose Lawless, whose work has been unfair what they did to the fans here sound is heard yet none can tell from embraced in Chicago and Cleveland, in the approach they took to try and whence it comes or where it goes.” has no reason to be nervous any redevelop the team. And they put She’s a regular on the red carpet more. And aside from that brief and them in a really bad position – the and socializes with fellow supermod- terrifying moment he spent on top of fans and the organization.” els, actresses and other boldfaced Semyon Bychkov his teetering sculpture, he said there Lorentz was shocked by the quick names. She’s also gained attention t’s easy to figure out where was never a time when he bore any departure of Pat LaFontaine as for her dating life, with reported Semyon Bychkov is now. Just hit ill-will toward his native city. president of hockey operations. relationships with ex-Bill Terrell Google. At the moment he is at He moved to Cleveland around “I think it is a public relations Owens and bad-boy actor Sean Penn. ICovent Garden, the world-famous 1990, after the “Green Lightning” disaster,” said Lorentz. “I’m a big White was charged in 2010 opera house in London where Prince fiasco and the first of the subsequent supporter of Pat. He brought a lot of with assault and harassment after Charles, once upon a time, used to court battles played out. He is now class and credibility to the organiza- allegedly slapping a woman in a drag a reluctant Princess Diana. working out of his large studio in tion. I don’t know what happened fight over a cab in New York City, but He is conducting Richard the city, where “Green Lighting” but I think it is really bad for the the counts were dismissed in 2011 Strauss’ “Die Frau Ohne Schatten,” currently sits in storage. organization.” and White was ordered to perform which means “The Woman Without His 1995 sculpture, an enormous He is a fan of Coach Ted Nolan. community service, New York a Shadow.” The Independent in Brit- mechanical contraption called “The “Even when he was coaching magazine reported. She also said ain gave it thumbs up: “With an ide- Politician a Toy” that rotates during the New York Islanders, I remember she was taking meditation classes al cast, and with the great Semyon the day and plays video at night, is the (2007) playoff series and Buffalo given to her as a birthday gift by rap Bychkov in the pit, we get a breath- a popular attraction on the campus was damn lucky to win that series. mogul Russell Simmons. taking performance.” of Cleveland State University. It’s I thought the Islanders outworked There’s no indication she ever You could almost call Bychkov widely read as a critique of elected them,” said Lorentz. “Buffalo just won bought or moved into the house the maestro without a shadow. He officials and it is, quite possibly, a by its talent. I’ve always impressed in Orchard Park, nor do we know never stands still. kind of cubist rendering of the late by what he’s been able to get from his whether she followed through on Born in 1952 in St. Petersburg – Griffin. (“People see what they want players. He is one of the best I’ve seen her plan to take classes toward then Leningrad – he led the Buffalo to see in it,” Lawless said.) from getting the most out of them.” earning a GED. Philharmonic Orchestra from 1985 “Green Lightning” was on view “He spends more time on trying As for her Angel Wings char- until 1989. He left Buffalo to lead for 10 years in Chicago, where hardly to motivate players. … Today’s game ity, White held a fundraising golf the Orchestre de Paris, where he re- anyone batted an eye at the neon gets too structured and it takes away tournament in 2009 in Orchard Park, mained until 1998. From 1997 to 2010 depictions of dancing male genitalia from the players’ imagination and and she has held fundraising parties he was the music director of the West in top hats that prompted Griffin creativity. Ted wants the work ethic on Long Island every May since 2010. German Radio Symphony Orchestra to label it “obscene” and order its and he knows if you get the work The events are considered a highlight of Cologne, a gigantic German or- removal. ethic the talent is going to come to of the Hamptons social calendar. chestra he brought to Kleinhans Mu- Lawless’ work was included in a the forefront and that overcomes a White said in the BET interview sic Hall in 2002. (Big orchestras suit late-1980s exhibition on censorship lot of things.” that she is filming a TV show – Bychkov. BPO Music Director JoAnn at the Cleveland gallery Spaces. After Lorentz still watches games like perhaps the reality show for the Falletta, who studied with him at the the exhibition, he said, he decided to an analyst and wishes he could Style Network widely reported last Mannes School of Music, once called make a life for himself there. explain some things going on. year – and said she wanted to do him “a larger-than-life personality.”) Right now, Lawless said, he’s work- And what is his view of Sabres more acting in 2014. Now, Bychkov freelances, con- ing on a large version of Noah’s Ark analyst Rob Ray? “This year, I’m gonna be really ducting at high-profile places that includes a depiction of the biblical “I think Rob has a lot of potential, insane. But I’m ready. I’ve been including Covent Garden, the Met- story of Cain and Abel. He cites the but I don’t think he has learned how waiting my whole life to kind of step ropolitan Opera, and La Scala in artists Alexander Calder and Christo to do the job yet,” said Lorentz.