More About Vanilla Fudge To put it mildly, I was persona non grata when they saw me at the airport. The airplane carrying Vanilla Fudge was just landing, and members of Marietta College’s student-run Social Planning Board were furious that I might rain on their...
More About Dr. Albert Ellis I was in the living room of a friend’s apartment, scanning her walls of bookshelves, neatly stacked and arranged in sections, much like a fine bookstore, fiction, non-fiction, travel, self-help, the latter being an area I had no experience...
More About Madison Avenue Before leaping into the inferno of Hollywood scriptwriting, and surviving relatively unscathed, my creative career began as a copywriter at powerhouse New York City advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather. Though I’d never taken a course in...
More About Crash Landings But first, an explanation of why I had to get there in such a hurry, despite the fact that we weren’t scheduled to take off until morning. I was a young man with an older man’s job, executive at a major New York City advertising agency...
More About Who You Know There’s a myth about breaking into Hollywood that goes like this: “It’s not what you know but who you know.” I call it a myth because if that theory was true, I’d have never been hired, nor would pretty much everybody I ever worked with,...
More About Zeke Blackstone You are now entering New Creek, Ohio, the brownest, rockiest farm community in creation, inhabited by hard men, hard women, living hard lives in a town with but one soft spot, Zeke Blackstone, a backwoods truck mechanic cursed with the soul...
