 The interview became "a debacle" when, midway through the conversation, a Y representative handed Solomon a note asking her to talk more about Martin’s movie career.The next day, the Y issued an apology and refund offer to the audience.In an op-ed in "The New York Times", Martin, a serious art collector, praised Solomon as an "art scholar" and said he would have rather "died onstage with art talk" than discuss movie trivia as the Y apparently preferred.