Labor Day means the start of the school year, so just this once I’d like to assign some reading: the comments on “Getting the Last Laugh.” For those who don’t do homework, here are the headlines: “Ron” wrote an amazing piece on how he has not voted since 1972, but due to that blog […]
BURNING BRAS WITH KEIRA KNIGHTLEY
I always thought she was gorgeous. That face. That skin. That elegant willowy body. And talented. Period English films. Pirate action movies. A teenage soccer movie. What couldn’t that girl do? In addition to all that, Keira Knightley, age 23, now becomes my inspiration. For standing up to the Hollywood system and the popular culture […]
Caring and Sharing
As I write this, my friend Dana is walking miles in my name, up and down the hills of San Francisco to raise money for breast cancer research with thousands of other participants on the Avon Walk. I could not feel more proud of such an honor. Actually I was supposed to be walking […]
Meet the Fockers
Although I’m Jewish, I don’t know much Yiddish. But I love the words I know, which perfectly capture things that the King’s English cannot begin to describe. Schlep. Schlemiel. Chutzpah. Chatchkes. Perfect words and impossible to imagine living without them. If Yiddish was still in use, maybe we would have words for other things equally […]
