Category Archives: Personal

The Lost Meaning Of The Seventh-Day

Cinema Paradiso is my favorite movie. “Six-year-old Salvatore, whose nickname is Toto, discovers his love for films early and spends every free moment at the local moviehouse — Cinema Paradiso, where he develops a friendship with the fatherly projectionist, Alfredo, … Continue reading

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Los Angeles Times Festival Of Books Sunday

UCLA. 10:30 a.m. Rolfe 1200. “Biography: Hollywood Legends” USC professor Steven J. Ross moderates a discussion between Peter Biskind and Leo Braudy. Biskind is most famous of late for estimating that Warren Beatty slept with about 13,000 women in his … Continue reading

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Partying Like Its 6969

You can take the shiksa out of Christianity, you can take the shiksa out of her short skirts, oh, never mind… I drove west on the Ten freeway Saturday night and was the first to arrive at Monica’s place, but … Continue reading

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Just Lunch

Last week, I had lunch with a young woman. She was breathing and I really like that trait in a girl. Only a simple thing prevented me from touching her — my faith in God and in the LAPD. As … Continue reading

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Action Jackson

My parents and I left the Seventh-Day Adventist church in August 1980 (I’m talking practically, not bureaucratically). We moved to Auburn, California, where my dad started Good News Unlimited, a non-denominational evangelical Christian foundation aka the invisible church of Jesus … Continue reading

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