• Watching “Ed Wood”

    Last night Art and I had a truly fabulous night watching “Ed Wood”‘, a film made in 1994 starring Johnnie Depp in the title role with Martin Landau co-starring as Bela Lugosi. (Martin Landau won an Oscar for his performance, which, I am sure, was absolutely deserved. First of all, if you don’t know, Ed

  • FRIENDS – A GREAT INVESTMENT

    FRIENDS – A GREAT INVESTMENT They say that friendship is a lot of work. Sometimes, I admit, it does seem that way. Friends require that you check in with them on a fairly regular basis, hold their hands when they need it, hold your tongue when you must, forgive when they disappoint you, and thank

  • WHEN THE TRUTH HURTS

    WHEN THE TRUTH HURTS Yesterday I got a call from a life-long friend. I had asked her to read the first draft of a screenplay – the first screenplay I had ever written. I knew that she had lots of experience with this sort of thing, so I knew that her opinion would be valuable.

  • THE LOST ART OF NEIGHBORING

    THE LOST ART OF NEIGHBORING Back when I was growing up in Pittsburgh, we lived on Gettysburg Street. Our next door neighbors to the left (as you faced the street) were my Uncle Irv, my Aunt Bernice, and my cousins, Maira, Ronna, Richard and Mitchell. (Later on my cousins moved a mile or two away,

  • VAMPIRES

    VAMPIRES Well, yesterday was Halloween and tomorrow is Election Day, and I don’t know which is scarier. Anyway, Halloween put me to mind of vampires. No, not the kind that they show in the movies, but the kind that you run into day after day, probably without knowing it, most of the time. I used

  • FRIENDS WE HAVEN’T MET

    FRIENDS WE HAVEN’T MET Back when I was young and foolish, I thought that there was no rhyme or reason to the people who peopled my life. I just thought that the universe was random. If there was a Higher Power, it was capricious and inscrutable (apparently, lazy in spite of Its omnipotence). Therefore, I