Photography by Douglas Friedman (courtesy of Patti LuPone) My heart rate is quickening as I approach Patti LuPone’s door at her sprawling home in the bucolic town of Kent, CT mere moments before our scheduled interview is to begin and I have to stop myself from laughing out loud. I mean, this sensation is a new one for me as I never—and I mean n-e-v-e-r—get nervous meeting, interviewing or otherwise interacting with celebrities. After a decades-long magazine career breathing the same oxygen with so, so many of these global superstars, I thought I was immune to the jitters. Yet, here…
