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Jonathan Winters was in no known comic tradition, in no familiar style, in no pre-existing category of humor.
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James Gandolfini was a remarkable actor with a powerful physique, but he couldn’t lift the diminutive, starstruck author off the ground.
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A college reunion, approached with slight dread, proves to be more warm and affectionate than grisly and sad.
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Those less-liberated college days of long ago look pretty bad from here.
View ArticleMore Sex, Anyone?
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Booze, Revisited
At first, I couldn’t think of any alcoholics in my life — then they began to file into consciousness, coming into focus like ghosts in a story.
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He Came, He Saw, He Conquered ... Hilariously
I had cut class to hang around in the city of my dreams, and even gone to Lindy’s, but the day’s unexpected highlight — Sid Caesar — still lay ahead.
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A sacred Yuwipi ceremony in an unlikely setting provided me with one of the strangest evenings of my life.
View ArticleGood Night, Sweet Soprano
James Gandolfini was a remarkable actor with a powerful physique, but he couldn’t lift the diminutive, starstruck author off the ground.
View ArticleBoola (breath) Boola
A college reunion, approached with slight dread, proves to be more warm and affectionate than grisly and sad.
View ArticleAs Comics Say, ‘These Kids Today! I Tell Ya!’
Those less-liberated college days of long ago look pretty bad from here.
View ArticleMore Sex, Anyone?
I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
View ArticleBooze, Revisited
At first, I couldn’t think of any alcoholics in my life — then they began to file into consciousness, coming into focus like ghosts in a story.
View ArticleHe Came, He Saw, He Conquered ... Hilariously
I had cut class to hang around in the city of my dreams, and even gone to Lindy’s, but the day’s unexpected highlight — Sid Caesar — still lay ahead.
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