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• THE MULTI-MILLION-DOLLAR LEFT

  August 27, 2009

  • Most of my male friends are divorced, and in every case, the divorce left them much poorer than before.  They moved from large upscale homes with pools and spas to one-bedroom apartments.  Their late-model BMWs transmogrified into old Toyota Corollas.  They worked longer hours or took second jobs in order to make alimony and/or child support payments.  They were lucky if they saw their ...
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• NOTHING IS ETCHED IN STONE

  May 13, 2009

  • Recently, my editor gave me a January, 2010 pub date for the reprint of my first novel, Time After Time , the basis for the Warner Bros movie starring Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen. I think more as a courtesy than anything else, he asked if I wanted to make changes in the original edition. “Sure,” I replied without hesitation, “Get rid of the dedication to my ex-wife.” Other than ...
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• ARNOLD: He can run to Sacramento, but can he hide forever?

  January 27, 2009

  •   The gropenator has been a professional politician for more than five years.  He remains “movie-star” popular and has successfully avoided both scandal and char­acter assas­sination in an era of tabloid journalism.  Is that a mira­cle, or what?  I think not.  Unlike most politicians, Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn’t deny any of his checkered past—or so it seems.  With astonishing ...
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• Day Jobs

  January 17, 2009

  •    When my grandmother found out I wanted to be a writer, she chuckled and said, “Welcome to the unemployment line.”  I was stunned—not so much by the thought that most writers are unemployed, but by the sardonic humor coming from a seventy-five-year-old Unity minister in Central Point, Oregon.  Alas, Nana was right.  Most of us have day jobs to help us cross that wasteland between ...
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