I just read about the death of Mary O’Connor, who worked for Hugh Hefner for more than 40 years and was known as the Bunny housemother, appearing on The Girls Next Door. I’ve never seen the show; but I’ve seen the girls on the show and Hef mourning her passing on the internet. And attached to […]
20 things I would tell my 20-year old self
For me, 20 was a big year—I spent the summer traveling around Europe; it was my first year at Yale as a transfer from Cornell; and my mom had died the year before. Despite how it looks, I hadn’t done anything really dangerous or really stupid….yet. I guess this should be number one: […]
George McGovern close up
It seemed appropriate that I was in Miami when George McGovern died; since that was the city where he was nominated. Unike the tightly orchestrated productions of today, the 1972 Democratic National Convention was a sloppy affair; few people in America watched McGovern make his incredible acceptance speech by the time he delivered it in […]
Television: Take Two
I was too young to realize how lucky I was; so lucky that I literally fell into the perfect career for me, at the perfect time; in the perfect place. Miami is a great news town. My TV station, one of the oldest in the industry, dominated the market. It was truly the golden age […]
Beach High
The name sounds like a Beach Boys song or a mythical concept—-and in a sense that’s what it is: a mythical place within a mythical place. Palm trees. Balmy tropical weather. Adjacent to a golf course. Just a few blocks from the beach and the Atlantic Ocean. Glitzy glamourous resorts like the Fontainebleau […]
When a red light means GO: finding a mentor and a mensch
All our lives have forks in the road. Sometimes we don’t even realize we’re there; and how much depends on twists of fate; how one person or one random step can spin your life in a completely different direction. I was a couple years out of college; after working at two dead-end jobs in Boston […]
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