Lived In Crazy

Lived In Crazy is the story of life.

Encouraged by many, I have written a memoir that I have designed to be like a box of candy. The stories in this book are told without chronology so that the reader can select a story and see what they get — smiles, tears, laughter, lessons or something completely different. The stories alternate — the first being one about my life, the next being one about a celebrity photo shoot, mostly from the creation of my first book THE SWEATER BOOK (2003 St. Martin’s Press). There are stories about my colorful family, my unique thirty-six year marriage to actor Pat Dwyer, the documentary film about us titled Married… And Counting, and how we navigate having an open relationship. There are stories about my family’s association to old Hollywood and the circus, and my own battles to succeed in the arts. I recount photo shoots with Maggie Smith, Donna Murphy, Alec Baldwin, Christopher Meloni, Laura Linney, Tony Goldwyn, Glenn Close, Judi Dench and many more, including the stories behind my shoots of four major Stephen Sondheim events. I share my struggles with alcohol and my weight, and there are lessons about living healthy and staving off depression.

With the book Lived In Crazy I hope to inspire others to live in the light, to be authentic to themselves, to lend a helping hand to those who need one, and to take the hands that reach out to help them. I hope people will find these stories interesting, amusing, moving and uplifting.

Below is a photo gallery that corresponds with the book, chapter by chapter — just click on the photos to get the visual experience.

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Namaste, bitches!

Photo by Bethany Briggs Photography
Marci Reid
Jen Houston
Dan Tracy
Brady Schwind
Faye Lane
Pat Dwyer

The Little Fighter
The Bernadette Peters picture.
Into the Woods Rehearsal
Into the Woods Rehearsal
Bernadette Peters Into the Woods
Bernadette Peters Into the Woods
Joanna Gleason and Chuck Wagner in Into the Woods
Tom Aldredge, Chip Zien Into the Woods
Marin Mazzie & Michael Cerveris in Passion in Concert
Jonathan Tunick, Dee Hoty, Stephen Sondheim FOLLIES
Ann Miller with Stephen Sondheim record I’m Still Here from Follies
Married in Connecticut; Hunter Gilmore, Marci Reid and Joanna Gleason
Married in Connecticut; our ring bearer Joanna Gleason

Mama and Stephanie Bring Me Home from Hospital
Little Me
Me with Stephanie and John, my siblings
Little Ste
My Crew
Little Boy
Mary Louise Parker for The Sweater Book
Mary Louise Parker for The Sweater Book Back Cover
Mama with Grandmother and Stephanie
A costume sketch for Joan Crawford
A costume sketch for Jane Wyman
A costume sketch for Gene Tierney
A costume sketch for Loretta Young
My Mama
My Dad
Mama and her father, Benny, at her wedding
The Wedding Dress
My folks
Mom and Dad’s Wedding Day
The Wedding
Grandmother Marjorie at the Wedding Shower
Mama with my grandfather, Celestino “Benny” Blanco
Baby Snookie
Miss West
Dad and his bikes
Dad in The Circus
My father in Aut Swenson’s Thrillcade
My dad in action
My mother in Aut Swenson’s Thrillcade
Mama in the circus
My father is on the lower bike
Mama in Action
Mama in the circus
Tony Goldwyn for The Sweater Book

Cal Champion was one of my first friends when I went to college. This photo was snapped in my living room one night when we were hanging out.
These images are the only photos I have left of Cal.
We did a photo shoot one day and I loaned him the negatives. I never got them back, to my deep sadness. They were beautiful photos of a beautiful man.
Kim Cassidy
Pat and Marci rehearse The Taming of the Shrew
The Mousetrap
Ricky Pope for The Sweater Book
Jonette Flora
Anna Lively
Kate Mulgrew for The Sweater Book
Ethan Phillips for The Sweater Book
Tim Russ in an out-take from The Sweater Book
Annalisa Mickelson
The Ondines in The Sweater
Brigitte Bavousett in The Sweater
Lisa-Gabrielle Greene in The Sweater
Mary-Margaret Pyeatt in The Sweater
Morgana Shaw in The Sweater
Marci Reid in vintage
Vintage Marci Reid
Marci Reid in costume
Laura Wells for The Sweater Book
Caroline de Fauw
Laurelle Rethke

Jason Alexander for The Sweater Book
Garry Marshall for The Sweater Book
Marcia Gay Harden for The Sweater Book
J. Paul Boehmer in The Sweater
Pat and Paul Boehmer, moments before the move to New York
Farewell
Kim Held and Todd Bistany in The Sweater
Jane Titus for The Sweater Book
Paul Tigue for The Sweater Book
Two-A
Swoosie Kurtz for The Sweater Book
Hal Linden
PatNSte The Early Years
Liz Reddick
PatNSte Recent Years
Kathleen Turner for The Sweater Book
Roger Rees for The Sweater Book
Kathleen Turner and Cynthia Nixon in The Sweater
Buddy and Sue Dwyer

Paula Newsome (left) in First Ladies Suite
Kim Held
Jane Titus
Laura Linney for The Sweater Book
Paul J. Williams
Grandmothers in the pool with my sibings
Celestino “Benny” Blanco. My grandfather.
Benny Blanco
My first portrait of my parents.
Patrick Dempsey in an Out take from The Sweater Book
Celeste Holm for The Sweater Book
The Shaun Cassidy Poster
Bea Arthur for The Sweater Book
Lilianne Montevechhi for The Sweater Book
Chris Gilbert for The Sweater Book
Marci Reid
Brady Schwind
Isai Cazares for The Sweater Book
Tom Taormina
Patrick and Pop
Us and our Patrick
Pat and me with Deno.
Deno took his two dads to the Paul McCartney concert.
Deno’s wedding.
Christopher Meloni For The Sweater Book
Rodney in The Sweater
Julie Johnson for The Sweater Book

Roma Downey for The Sweater Book
Della Reese for The Sweater Book
John Dye for The Sweater Book
Wendy Phillips for The Sweater Book
Gerald Macraney for The Sweater Book
Sarah Schaub for The Sweater Book
Austin O’Brien for The Sweater Book
Martha Williamson for The Sweater Book
Loretta Devine for The Sweater Book
Louis Gossett jr. for The Sweater Book
Jenifer Lewis for The Sweater Book
Al Jarreau for The Sweater Book
Sean Nelson for The Sweater Book
John Ortiz for The Sweater Book
Esther Rolle for The Sweater Book
Sela Ward and Brock Ward for The Sweater Book
Hillary Sachs with Steve Simon and Mark Armstrong for The Sweater Book
Stephen Collins of Sisters for The Sweater Book
Sheila Kelly of Sisters for The Sweater Book
Patricia Kalember of Sisters for The Sweater Book
Dan Lipman and Ron Cowan for The Sweater Book (the creators of my two favorite tv shows Sisters and Queer As Folk
Garrett M. Brown of Sisters for The Sweater Book
John Wesley Shipp of Sisters for The Sweater Book
Eric Close of Sisters for The Sweater Book
David Gianopoulis of Sisters for The Sweater Book
Heather McAdam of Sisters for The Sweater Book
Michael Whaley of Sisters for The Sweater Book
Jill Novick of Sisters for The Sweater Book
Ruth Warrick for The Sweater Book
Christine Stinson
Tom Taormina
Armin Shimerman for The Sweater Book
Armin Shimerman with Pat for The Sweater Book
Colm Meaney for The Sweater Book
Ste Serves
Me with my mentor, Matt Jenkins
Daniel Henning for The Sweater Book
Sarah Michelle Gellar for The Sweater Book
My parents, Covered in Grandchildren
The Dwyer Kids with Guncle Pat
The Dwyer Kids with Guncle Pat
The Dwyer Kids with Guncle Pat
Dwyer Nieces
Us with the Connor Kids
The Westfalls
The England Boys with Mom and Dad
The Arnold Triplets
MP and his Daddies
Me with my little big guy
Bob Mackie for The Sweater Book
Arthur Penn, Jane Alexander and Carol Burnett at The Gish Prize ceremony
Carol Burnett, Patrice Munsel and Licia Albanese at The Gish Prize
Miss Carol Burnett for The Sweater Book
Our Gang
Brady Schwind
Hunter Gilmore
Dominic Sheahan-Stahl
Josh Blye
Jay Zimmerman & Rhoda
Dan Tracy
Dan and Me.
Me with Dan Tracy
Jane Wyatt with Pat Dwyer in an out-take from The Sweater Book
Stockard Channing for The Sweater Book
Don Dellair in The Sweater
Mitchell Waters N us
Tony Cointreau and Jim Russo out take for The Sweater Book
Dominick Dunne for The Sweater Book
Andrea Marcovicci for The Sweater Book
Miss Sally Mayes in an out-take from The Sweater Book
Billy Stritch in The Sweater
Nancy LaMott out take for The Sweater Book
Bobby McGuire
Steve
Andrea Parker for The Sweater Book
Andrea Parker in an out-take from The Sweater Book,; this photo is framed and hanging in my home office.
Annalisa Mickelson
Hunter Gilmore
Dan Tracy
The Look
Betty Buckley for The Sweater Book
Susan Egan for The Sweater Book
Christopher Sieber for The Sweater Book
Roger Bart N Kevin Chamberlin in an out-take for The Sweater Book
Nancy Opel for The Sweater Book
Me with Stephanie and John
Me with John N Jim
Quentin Crisp for The Sweater Book
Mr Quentin Crisp with Pat
Helen Reddy for The Sweater Book
Helen Reddy and Richard Hillman with The Sweater
Dancing in the Gay Pride NYC Parade
Dancing in preparation for Black Party
Gary Eddleman for The Sweater Book

Michele Lee for The Sweater Book
Jason Scott Lee out take for The Sweater Book
Pat with Jason Scott Lee in The Sweater
Bibi Besch for The Sweater Book
Bibi Besch with Pat, for The Sweater Book
Sean Johnston in The Sweater
Sean Johnston (front) with his twin, Liam, and Liam’s wife, Terri for The Sweater Book
Jen Houston
Nancy LaMott
David Campbell
Faye Lane
Dave Stishan
Valerie Dowd
Hunter Gilmore
Marci Reid
Tom Taormina
Caroline de Fauw
Brady Schwind
Dan Tracy
Donna Murphy
Wilson Cruz for The Sweater Book
Nathan Lane for The Sweater Book
The Sexual Revolution
Dame Maggie Smith for The Sweater Book
Chris Larkin for The Sweater Book
David Campbell
Alfie Boe
Christopher Sieber and Kevin Burrows at the NYC premiere of Married… and Counting
Anita Gillette
Bulldozer and Jo Dozer
Karen Mason
Carole Shelley for The Sweater Book
Donna Murphy for the (defunct) The Book of New York at the The Delacorte Theater
SM n DM
Donna & me
Matthew Morrison, photographed for the (defunct) The Book of New York, at the Southstreet Seaport.
Anita GIllette for the (defunct) The Book of New York at the New York Public Library
Baby Jane Dexter for the (defunct) The Book of New York
Howie Michael Smith for the (defunct) The Book of New York on Central Park West
Eden Espinosa for the (defunct) The Book of New York at the Central Park Bandshell
Deidre Goodwin from the (defunct) The Book of New York against the NYC Skyline
Sean Mathias for the (defunct) The Book of New York at Lilac Chocolate in the West Village
Deborah Cox for the (defunct) The Book of New York, overlooking Central Park
Gavin Lee for the (defunct) The Book of New York on a Manhattan chimney with his Mary Poppins chimney sweep brush
Kristine W for the (defunct) The Book of New York in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria
Mireille Enos for the (defunct) The Book of New York, in her favorite place in NYC: her own home.
Ann Harada for the (defunct) The Book of New York at Lincoln Center
Stephanie D’Abruzzo for the (defunct) The Book of New York
Michael Grandage and Christopher Oram for the (shelved) The Book of Love
Rex Smith & Courtney Schrag for the (shelved) The Book of Love
Jenn Gambatese & Curtis Cregan for the (shelved) The Book of Love
Daphne Rubin-Vega from the (incompleted) The Book of Portraits
Richard Eyre for the (unfinished) The Backstage Book
Barry Humphries for the (unfinished) The Backstage Book
tephanie J. Block for the (unfinished) The Backstage Book
tephanie J. Block for the (unfinished) The Backstage Book
Max Von Essen for the (unpublished) The Book of Faces
Jose Llana for the (unpublished) The Book of Faces
Titus Welliver for the (abandoned) The Book of Matthew
Alec Baldwin for The Sweater Book
Virginia Madsen for The Sweater Book
Annette O’Toole for The Sweater Book
Hugh Laurie for The Sweater Book
Ben Wright & Theo Clinkard
Victoria Hasted for The Sweater Book
Amy Raynes. The first Sweater Picture
Stephen Collins Rejection Letter
Raphael Sbarge in an out-take for The Sweater Book
Treat Williams Rejection Letter
Austin Pendleton for The Sweater Book
Elizabeth Taylor Rejection Letter
Melissa Errico for The Sweater Book
Jane Alexander Rejection Letter
Melissa Errico in an out-take from The Sweater Book
Kitty Carlisle Hart Rejection Letter
Mark Sendroff for The Sweater Book
Carole King Rejection Letter
Julie Harris for The Sweater Book
Shirley MacLaine Rejection Letter
Cathy Moriarty for The Sweater Book
Dick Clark Rejection Letter
Beth Broderick in an out-take from The Sweater Book
Vanessa Redgrave Rejection Letter
Bobcat Goldthwait for The Sweater Book
Sidney Sheldon Rejection Letter
Eric Idle for The Sweater Book
RuPaul Rejection Letter
Nicole Sullivan for The Sweater Book
Alec Guinness Rejection Letter
Vince Gatton for The Sweater Book
Leslie Caron’s Letter
Ray Walston with Pat during his photo shoot for The Sweater Book
Harry Connick Rejection Letter
Lynn Ahrens for The Sweater Book
Helen Mirren Rejection Letter
Walter Bobbie for The Sweater Book
Robert Sean Leonard Rejection Letter
Robert Sean Leonard Rejection Letter
Randy Graff and Scott Ellis for The Sweater Book
The Best Rejection Letter of All Time
The Best Rejection Letter of All Time
Rob Marshall for The Sweater Book
Letter from Rob
Patricia Clarkson with Bradley Whitford and John Slattery for The Sweater Book
Trevor Nunn Approves
Amanda McBroom, Ann Hampton Callaway and Mary Cleere Haran for The Sweater Book
A Julie Harris Valentine
Maryann Lopinto
Roma Drops a Line
Dinah Manoff for The Sweater Book
Quentin Crip Sends a Note
Dana Gillespie for The Sweater Book
Ed McMahon Approves
Leslie Alexander for The Sweater Book
Susannah York Says Yes
Pat and Julie Hagerty in The Sweater
Michael York Approves
Pat with Collin Baker (The 6th Doctor Who) in The Sweater
Hugh Laurie Approves
Cherry and Mary in The Sweater
Ed Herrmann Says Yes
A previously unseen photo of Miss Maureen McCormick for The Sweater Book
Dame Maggie Approves
A never-before-seen of Marilu Henner made for The Sweater Book
Alan Bates’ Kindness
A never-before-seen of Joanne Worley made for The Sweater Book
Megan Mullally’s Missive
Megan Mullally’s Missive
Megan Mullally’s Missive
A Never Before Seen Photo of Estelle Getty in The Sweater
Lynn Redgrave Rejection Letter
Lynn Redgrave Rejection Letter
Jonathan Chase (eating cake), Michael Raymen (drinking martini), Mitchell Waters (on the phone) Mark Ramsay & Paul J. WIlliams (on the sofa) and some friends for The Sweater Book
Lynn Redgrave Thank You Note