On what I remember as our third date, I suggested that John and I see What the Bleep Do We Know? at the Beverly Center. We sat through the film, my head on his shoulder, but I had trouble paying attention. See, I had discovered (on our second date) that I was eleven years older [...]
The Departed?
Really?
The Departed was the Best Picture of the year?
Oh, sweet Academy, now you’re just picking at the scab that had been festering since last year’s soul-sucking choice of Crash over Brokeback Mountain. Are we really gonna make it two in a row?
Can someone please explain to me – without using the words “Scorsese” or [...]
In a weekend of art fairs and Oscars, I sing praises to the art of the old-fashioned New York deli.
We began our love affair at breakfast: two eggs, ham, and cheddar cheese on a roll. Two slices, enough to slide out the sides.
Need to break the habit? Switch from a roll to wheat toast, drop the cheese.
Two fried [...]
I just saw Amazing Grace, a new British movie about William Wilberforce, the MP and reformer who brought about the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire in 1807—yes, 200 years ago. Wilberforce’s portrayal is a little too saint-like for my taste (his laudanum addiction notwithstanding), but what struck me were the [...]
Murray and Esther
For a 73-year-old retired man, Murray looked great. The first time I met him, I noted a thin and spry graying man on my exam room table who waiting excitedly for his yearly physical. And his attentive wife sat on a chair right beside him.
That was the norm for my practice. My patient [...]