what happened no one's fun anymore

Outside, the snow was coming down.

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This morning pushing curtain aside, to look and see what kind of a day it was so far, saw snow accumulated white on the ground -- and then a short time later, passed windows and said, Oh no, not more...!  Additional flakes were swirling down in a meandering multitude. 

And I thought about how, when it snows it seems like it gets quiet outside.  As if the snow brings Quiet with it.  Does snow actually muffle the everyday noises?  I think it does. 

It made me think of an SATC ("Sex And The City") episode from Season 6 where it snows in NYC during a party Carrie Bradshaw attends in the elegant Upper East Side apartment of a character on the show played by Candace Bergen.

You see an Exterior shot of New York buildings, and it's snowing, quietly, in the darkness.
Then, Interior shot:  Carrie opens the door to the bathroom.
The voice-over (her voice) says,

"Outside, the snow was coming down.

...And inside, it was going up."

In the bathroom another female party guest has this straw and is sniffing cocaine off of the counter-top.

(?)  Good grief.

"Close the door, close the door!  Want some?"
"Oh, no, thanks."

--------------------  In that same episode this actor I had seen before only a few times in my life, in various roles, popped up again -- Wallace Shawn.  What a card!  There's something about him -- you watch him act once, and you don't forget him.  He has an engaging "vibe" about him. 

First role I remember Wally Shawn in was Woody Allen's film, Manhattan.  Shawn was the former husband of Diane Keaton's character....he's only on for a few moments, and yet you don't forget him!

He showed up on "Taxi" in an episode about arranged dates -- he's one of two men having dinner in a movie called "My Dinner With André" (public TV in about 1983, I think), and Shawn also appeared in several episodes of "The Cosby Show" in the 80s -- he was Bill Cosby's neighbor who would borrow his tools and forget to return them -- or maybe Bill Cosby (Heathcliff Huxtable) borrowed his tools, can't remember which....

On the SATC episode, Candace Bergen had asked Carrie to bring along a date, for her -- (Carrie's boyfriend of the moment is a sort of jet-setting sophisticated artist, and Enid [Candace Bergen] may have assumed that all of this guy's friends would be the "dashing" type....)
As Enid greets Carrie and her man at the door, the date they've brought for her emerges from the background:  it's Wally Shawn!

Enid -- takes him in, visually -- and greets him with inflexible politeness, and when he goes to deposit his coat, Carrie says apologetically, imploringly, in a voice that's almost a whisper,
"He's very sweet!
And -- "
(pointing at her own head)
"-- smart !"

The way people generally do.

Candace Bergen growls irritatedly,
"He's - a - hobbit!!"

Wally Shawn starts to make points with the Candace character a little later, however, when the cocaine-partaking guest, in her tight, spaghetti-strapped dress, lights up a cigarette and Candace says, "There's no smoking in here, please go outside."

Cocaine and Nicotine Woman:  "We're twenty stories up, there's no outside."  And then proclaims to the room in general,
"What happened to New York?  This used to be the most exciting city in the world, now it's nothing but smoking near a f---ing open window.  No one's fun anymore!"

Wally (Hobbit) Shawn moves to take the situation in hand, goes over to the Party Girl -- gently, "Now, our hostess has already said, there's no smoking"...He tries to make the situation better, not worse.  And he doesn't just sit and stare, waiting for a train-wreck.  I admire people like that. 

(His "stock" went up with Candace Bergen, too, I think....)

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