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AT H O M E

and…a new wife, the actress, writer, and
THE COUPLE’S NEW producer Jillian Crane, who tells the story
PRODUCTION COMPANY HAS of how they met for the first time:
11 PROJECTS: FROM AN EROTIC Jillian: I was living in Los Angeles. I had
THRILLER WRITTEN BY come to New York for a play that I was
JILLIAN TO A BROADWAY starring in. I was invited to a charity din-
MUSICAL ner and there was Al, casually seated at
my table. I thought he was charming, fun,
intelligent, and very interested in discov-
ering new things.
was on the cover of Time magazine as Al: I thought she was attractive, wonder-
“Person of the Year,” and even today the ful, and very smart, and it seemed like we
little character and its friends have gen- liked the same things. We saw each other
erated over 50 billion dollars. In fact, they several times. I read some of her writing
have just reinvented themselves with the and thought, “This girl knows what she’s
extraordinarily famous Pokémon Go. doing!” Then I discovered her heart of
“In reality nothing actually changes, it gold and how when she walks into a room
just reinvents itself. It’s the same but with she lights the whole place up.
a twist. The first Pokémon entered After trips to see each other and phone
through television and children’s shows, serenades (Al is almost a professional
and today’s through video-on-demand singer and knows the majority of Amer-
and tablets.” ican musicals by heart), one day, after
And just as Pokémon has reinvented Jillian’s grandmother died and after going
itself, so has Al with a new company (after with her to the temple, he took her to the
losing hundreds of millions of dollars in Russian Tea Room (because his ancestors
2008 in Lehman Brothers), a new home, were Russian). To cheer her up, he invited

Above, Al and Jillian, who married four years ago on a theater stage. Center, the art déco
dining room, with an 18th century Japanese silkscreen. Below, from left to right: Al’s main
living area, the dining table set for guests, an elevator connecting the home’s five floors.

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