Too Much, Magic Bus (Tour Guide)

post-Cruise Levitch                                                            Dana O'Keefe/Hulu

Waaay back in 2013, I learned of the existence of a fantastic, almost fantastical 1998 documentary called The Cruise (http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2013/01/magical-big-city-tour.html), which focuses on the unique (and uniquely voiced), knowledgeable, and oddly entertaining New York City tour guide Timothy "Speed" Levitch. The movie can't be viewed anymore on the link I provided then, but you can watch it on Hulu. So enjoy, learn, and wonder, as I still do, how any human being can keep so many interesting details in his head: http://www.hulu.com/watch/357882
   The most recent update I could find about Mr. Levitch was this story in the New York Times, from 2012. It seems that he starred in a Hulu series in which he tours various cities around the country. The writer's review? "... it’s impossible to look at Mr. Levitch here — working within the system, even if it is in an independently produced Web series — and not recall the much more interesting and unwashed figure he cut in 'The Cruise.'" My own take, after watching half of the first episode? I agree but will add that, as he did in the movie, our Mr. Levitch unearths interesting places one might not always be familiar with and is most informative about them and, through them, the cities they inhabit: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/arts/television/up-to-speed-with-timothy-levitch-on-hulu.html?_r=0
   P.S., A profile in NYU's alumni magazine concludes, "Whether or not Up to Speed gets renewed, Levitch will keep busy with mobile barbecue tours, occasional acting gigs, and a long-simmering plan to start a Shakespeare theater troupe that makes monologue 'deliveries' across New York City": http://www.nyu.edu/alumni.magazine/issue20/classnotes_1.html