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There are moments in life when people across the planet come together to celebrate a triumph of the human spirit. To experience the feelings of selfless compassion and true oneness that is all too rare in contemporary society.  And this week was one such occasion. Like so many American citizens, I sat in awe and gratitude, watching 33 Chilean miners being rescued from their unimaginable hell half a mile inside the earth. It was enormously [...]

I was rear-ended in Hollywood a few months back. I call it the Thousand Dollar Sext, because the driver who hit me was too busy sexting with his girlfriend to notice that my car had stopped.  I thought better of inquiring as to why he was instant messaging naughty photos from a moving vehicle. Or why the photos were so urgent that they couldn’t wait until he hit a stoplight, or a brick wall. Or [...]

I spent part of last week at a conference in Washington, D.C., one of those deals where industry executives and underlings come together to share exciting new ideas and make unfortunate personal choices after four free cocktails.  Prior to 2009, this conference was held in the convention center of whatever the city du jour was - usually somewhere like Dallas or Austin or Philadelphia or Orlando – all perfectly attractive cities, but ones that would [...]

I recently did a half-hour book-oriented TV show where the host interviews one author per episode, and it was a lovely, in-depth conversation with an interested and personable host who really did her homework. She got several character names wrong, and a number of rather important factual details, but hey, I’m a first time author and it was a half hour all about me, so I shut my fat trap. Although I work in television, [...]

On weekdays, I generally arrive at my gym by 6:30a.m. – bleary-eyed, cranky, and eerily resembling a troll doll. Recently, through the slits of my crusty eyelids, I noticed a new employee at the front desk. I noticed her mostly because of her penchant for shrieking “Good morning!” or “Happy Tuesday!” (above the din of my iPod) in an obscenely perky voice. When I turned to politely acknowledge her in hopes of shutting her piehole, [...]

A while back we attended a charity event at an estate in Beverly Hills that was on the market for $125,000,000.  And no, that is not, unfortunately, a typo. This home, a brand new, 45,000 square foot villa with inlaid marble floors, frescoes, leather walls and gallons of gold leaf, is modeled after the Palace of Versailles. I’m not kidding. Although guests weren’t allowed inside (it was a garden party), the owner is close with [...]

I am not a car snob.  I’ve owned a higher-end hybrid SUV for several years, and while it does make me feel good to drive a “luxury” car (burled wood! Seats that have everything except Magic Fingers!), I am SO not attached to it. I’m basically a bargain shopper who buys everything on sale, with coupons, plus extra early bird savings for showing up at the store at 5a.m., puffy and wild-eyed, wearing two different shoes. [...]

I work for a TV network which is housed on a movie lot in LA. It’s a wonderful place to work, although we rarely have either of the types of moments most associated with movie lots: groups of costumed gladiators and nuns scurrying down the street to a soundstage, or people doing blow off the hitch of a makeup trailer.  What we do have is ducks. Last year, a group of cute brown ducks decided [...]