Memorial

Happy Easter everybody. Today's not really a great day for me. It was a year ago today that my mother died. The trouble actually started two weeks earlier when she went into the hospital. That's when she really disappeared. But today's the first anniversary of the day she died. All in all, this is the end of a rough year for me. I lost both my parents, I lost months of my … [Read more...] about It’s Been a Year…

Veteran's Day always made me think proudly of my father. Now that he's passed on, it's kind of a sad day. I've got nothing else to say, really. … [Read more...] about Veteran’s Day Blues

He wrote a book (book) called .Tootsie and what I feel is one the best written comedies of my time - Oh, God!. He also had great success in movies with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum He wrote the book (script) for the Stephen Sondheim musical , alongside the likes of Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner & Woody Allen to name a few.Your Show of Shows, which became … [Read more...] about Larry Gelbart, R.I.P.

Nobel prize winning agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug died yesterday at the age of 95. If history is just, people a thousand years from now should still be talking about him. I wrote about him here. … [Read more...] about Norman Borlaug, R.I.P.