More than six degrees

David Hampton, the protagonist of John Guare’s “Six Degrees of Separation” recently died in New York.

He […] briefly experienced the glamorous Manhattan life that had first seduced him from his upper-middle-class home in Buffalo, a city that he once said lacked anyone “who was glamorous or fabulous or outrageously talented.”

Add this to the recent news that “the great minds who married virtually kissed goodbye to making any further glorious additions to their CV” and an impending birthday, and it seems that fame, fortune, and fabulousness are quickly fleeting.