patti smith with leonard bernstein
photo © 1978 by russell turiak
when published in us magazine, the caption for this photo read:
mother punk's new friends
Patti Smith hobnobbed with New York's chic set when she joined
such
notables as Lauren Bacall, Richard Widmark and Leonard
Bernstein (with
Patti above) at a fund-raising dinner for Amnesty
International, the worldwide
human-rights group. Although she's
better known at raunchy CBGB's, the
Manhattan punk mecca,
than the sumptuous Tavern on the Green restaurant,
Patti made
herself at home. "I thought I was outta my element," she
said.
"But everybody's been so wonderful, I feel like a starlet."