After Al Pacino: In Conversation with Lawrence Grobel was published I asked Al what he thought about it. It was awkward for both of us. Usually when one writes a book about someone, one isn't having lunch with that person every Sunday, as I do with Al when he's in Los Angeles. I often wonder what Truman Capote, John Huston, or James A. Michener would have thought of the books I did about them, ...
For everyone who manages to live into their Social Security years, a rite of passage occurs upon leaving your fifties behind. Each decade, of course, marks a significant passage and allows for reflection: leaving your teens to enter the adult world of the twenties surely calls for a deep breath and a pause (though being that young, one rarely loses stride); hitting thirty makes you wonder about ...
Whenever I'm around friends or family who complain about how tough things are, how nothing's what it used to be, how the quality of life has diminished and life itself seems almost futile, I'm at times jolted to a higher standard of life appreciation by some immediate life-threatening event. Because no matter how bleak things might seem, bleak is always better than black, where The End is ...
