Tomorrow afternoon, the Martin Beck Theater in New York will officially be renamed The Al Hirschfeld Theater.
This was decided last year but they decided to wait until his 100th birthday to make the changeover. They figured, "He'll be there. After all, he's only 99 years old. Not much chance of him dying and not being around to see it."
But at least he knew it was going to happen. I think it would be nice if some graffiti artist would sneak over there when no one's looking and spray-paint NINAs all over the walls.