FILMS THAT, FOR ME, HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TIME

One of my all-time favorite movies is Defending Your Life by Albert Brooks, which played in movie theaters in 1991. Over the years I’ve probably watched it twenty times, and every time I’m more impressed with it. The plot centers on a guy who is a yuppie—a young, upwardly mobile professional—in his 40s (played by

26 Sep, 2013
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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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Recommending a Book That I Love

Illusions, written by Richard Bach and first published in 1970s after his enormously popular Jonathan Livingston Seagull, is one of my all-time favorite books. I believe its wisdom contains answers to all of life’s problems. In the book, Richard – Bach’s alter-ego protagonist — is a burnt-out writer who chooses to live as

5 Sep, 2013
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Judging Others

In my book My Mind Is Not Always My Friend: A Guide for How to Not Get in Your Own Way, I say that when we stop judging, love is everywhere. By judging, I mean negatively evaluating other people’s actions or words and expressing our evaluation to them in some way. When we

29 Aug, 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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