What I Learned in Acting School

When I was 58, I saw my friend Gilbert Segel, a very prominent business manager and a few years older than me, as a featured actor in a prime time TV show. I was impressed and it looked like he was having a great time. I was looking to spice up my life, and seeing

19 Sep, 2013
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Mentoring

I was fifteen when I got a job working at the Beverly Theatre in Beverly Hills. My boss, Myron, the theatre manager, looked and acted like Tony Soprano on The Sopranos. One day I came into his office with a question, and he told me,“Man up, stop acting like a kid who’s caught his dick

22 Aug, 2013
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SINGLE AGAIN

I’m single again after two long-term marriages. I was 22 when I first got married, and it was before the birth control pill, legalized abortion and the sexual freedom born in the hippie era. The word relationship wasn’t in my universe and the idea of “hooking up” with a woman without getting married meant in

8 Aug, 2013
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Why I Love Painting

I never thought of myself as a writer or an artist until I was in my 40s. It never occurred to me I had a talent for either. But I did know that I felt like there was a void in my life – a vacuum, an internal pain. By my mid-40s I knew that

18 Jul, 2013
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WHY I LOVE MY DOGS

I’ve always loved dogs. I had a couple of puppies when I was a kid, but they didn’t last long around the house, and it always ended in mystery because my parents never explained what happened to them. At 24, I got my first dog as a grown-up to complete the “wife, house and dog”

11 Jul, 2013
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