It’s sad but it’s true. I’m old. I am 79. I have pains at least somewhere every day. Young drunk people complain to my fabulous driver, Bob Noah, that “your old man is blocking traffic.” That was just a few…
A glorious day yesterday April 13, 2024. The Islamic State of Iran. The leading global sponsor of terror. The recipient of billions in oil money, and the beneficiary of Mr. Biden’s inexplicably stupid tone of appeasement and the donee of…
It’s mid-February 2024. In a desultory way, I am packing up and getting ready to leave Sandpoint, Idaho. I have spent the happiest days of my life here. Tommy and I and Tommy’s best friends here, Peter Feierabend and his…
Now for a few words on important subjects of the day. 1. I am getting ready to go to the Shiva for my departed friend Norman Lear. Norman was the first close friend I had in Hollywood. Despite yawning chasms…
For most of my long-vanished youth, I watched very little television. But in my late twenties, when I was a teacher and a resident preceptor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, I began to watch more TV in…
Yesterday, October 6, 2023, was the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Yom Kippur War, also known as the October War. It was an all-out assault on Israel, a massive invasion led by Egypt and Syria with the backing…
Saturday — It’s a perfect day here in Beverly Hills. Blue skies. Light breeze. My pool is at 89 degrees. That’s the temperature I like. I learned that from Richard Nixon. He invited my father, mother, and me to Camp David…
Dear Tommy, You are about to embark on a fantastically difficult journey — the journey of trying to make the major relationship of your life work. I am about to offer a few thoughts on the subject that may be…
I can recall our marriage day as if it were yesterday. I was nervous. As scared as I was when I bought my first house on Klingle Street, Northwest. I didn’t like the idea of being locked into any kind…
