There is a point in life when your relationship with a parent shifts from Child & Parent, to Equal & Parent and then Parenting your Parent. With My mother, I am currently in the middle of the last two. (more…)
Requested editorial by ... ... until they read it and the editor squashed it. (*) Definitions I am sitting in my nephew’s bar-mitzvah when my brother Kenny leans in and asks why the Rabbi has his tallis *(tälis| a fringed shawl traditionally worn by Jewish men at prayer) over his head. I replied,...
For some reason I feel I am a world apart from the 200 actors in this room who have been auditioning for 18 years and still haven’t booked. If only because these “professional auditioners” are very loud, making sure we know they’re in The Biz. (more…)
Years ago, I remember meeting friends in Philadelphia’s University City. I gave a supposed homeless person money. When I exited the restaurant an hour later, I saw him jump into a Cadillac with his other friends counting the cash. I felt angry and robbed. A friend said that my intention was the...
I am finally coming out against the stage performer’s abuse of the request for us, the audience to “clap along”. We don’t WANT to clap along. I’m off, you’re working, I paid for this ticket, YOU clap along. (more…)
I'm in Las Vegas when I get a call from my friend and business mogul, who can't see me tonight because he has to stake out one of his establishments to "serve" his scumbag partners legal papers. BUT he can't legally do it himself and asks me if I wanna get a drink, catch...
