More About Hits, Misses, Awards, Flops Most writers have felt it, “They love my work, they hate it, they’re going to produce it, they killed it.” Learning to live with the ups/downs of acceptance/rejection is an obstacle that most writers struggle to conquer,...
More About Mining For Gold A friend that created three hit television shows put it to me simply, “Hollywood is not a place to make a living, it’s a place to make a killing.” True news but bad news for anyone thinking they can live a nine-to-five life, bring home...
More About The Big Apple I know New York City from the heights of Madison Avenue and Hollywood, writing for one of the most prestigious advertising agencies on earth then writing for one of the monstrous hit television shows of all time, awards, hot restaurants,...
More About But Not Forgotten Following are memories about people that touched my life and are now sadly gone… Tad Mosel Over the years I introduced my mother to many celebrities I worked with or was friends with. None of them overly impressed her until one day...
More About The One That The one that never happened. Or the one that got away. Or the one I turned left and should have turned right. Or the launching pad to bigger and better things. Or the utter apocalypse of creative possibilities. The crossroad. The what-if. The...
“New Joisey,” that’s how my grandfather pronounced the state I grew up in, a sound echoed when he addressed his son, my father, Bernard, aka Bernie, aka “Boiney.” My mother Marguerite, aka Mickey, had no such phonological aberrations, possessing perfect diction,...
