The sight of New Yorkers sunning themselves on lawn chairs in the middle of Broadway almost made me swallow my cigar. I could not believe that hundreds of pedestrians, swarming among each other like killer bees, were lounging in the middle of a street famous not for recreation but for survival among the cars, buses […]
It rained in Manhattan on our 60th wedding anniversary. Lightning, thunder, a relentless downpour, the whole flashing, roaring, drenching package of a storm that pounded over West 44th Street like the drums of eternity. I took it as God’s recognition of Cinelli’s endurance.
In the vast stretch of cosmic time, six decades is not very long. When […]
It’s hard to believe that almost 40 years after the humiliating end of the Vietnam War Jane Fonda is still held responsible. Not for our defeat but for committing what a small group of veterans regard as a treasonous act in her visit to Hanoi during the height of the losing battle.
Despite the passage of years […]
I was a nice guy until I became a landlord. I smiled a lot and said “Good morning” and “How you doing?” and patted the dog occasionally and my wife more frequently. Then I became responsible for the lives of tenants and it all changed. Overnight I became a monster.
It began with our purchase of a […]
When I grow up I want to be a political commentator like Rush Limbaugh or Keith Olbermann and shout in everyone’s face.
I will holler at the masses from television and radio stations and from street corners. I will yell at passing buses and taxis and go down into the subway tunnels and bellow at […]
Once more the guns of America have roared across the land, leaving a trail of bodies, blood, tears and the terrible acknowledgment of our national heritage. We’re a gun-totin’ culture, partner, and it ain’t just the cowboys who are drawing on each other.
Parents are killing kids. Kids are killing parents. Husbands are killing wives. […]
Thank God Oscar Night has come and gone with all of its suffocating hyperbole, ever-deepening cleavage, breathless fans and endless pre, post and live television coverage. I’m not sure I could take another day of Mickey Rourke trying to smile but looking vaguely like a hung-over poet, and Kate Winslet bravely attempting to appear sexy […]