Newt and the Dancing Queen

• “Daniel silva’s new novel the defector is number one on the ny times list I recommend it very highly will keep you reading with excitement”

• “[My wife] callista and I love Antrim 1844 in taneytown md and we put it in our novel gettysburg it is a great bed breakfast and restaurant”

• “Callista and I watched mama mia the other night. I liked the dancing queen sequence so much watched three times. meryl streep did great job”

• “Chef geoff has a great new restaurant next to tiffanys at tysons The food is superb and interesting Sitting outdoors is best Newt”

—Compiled by Sophie Gilbert

This article first appeared in the September 2009 issue of The Washingtonian. For more articles from that issue, click here.

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