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A month before 9/11, after a prestigious, 40-year career in advertising, I was laid off from my job as Director of Broadcast Production for...

In 1944, the year I was born, Werner Reich was a teenager in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, and under the...

One of my favorite "laugh out loud" cartoons? Two old guys sitting in a diner, one says to the other: "90 is the new...nothing."

Bob Dylan is 72, Mick Jagger is a year older than me, Grandma Moses didn't start painting till she was 70, and well into her 90s......

The night of full Blood Red moon, October 28, 2012, the ocean breached the bay on Rockaway Beach Blvd, and a 14-foot tsunami, of biblical proportions and with callous...

"FEMA has completed a review of your request for assistance with other expenses. At this time, we are unable to assist you because your losses are less than the allowable minimum grant amount."

An enraged Rockaway resident received this note with a $3,700...

Hurricane Sandy left some visible damage. The fires that burned in Breezy, and Belle Harbor, and Rockaway Park. But far, far more of the damage is internal. It is the difference between seeing the obviously bloody nose, and the internal hemorrhaging of a kidney punch. The Rockaways is suffering internal...

I'm one terrified senior citizen!

I'm scared of the Tea Party, Grover Norquist, John Boehner and the Wayne LaPierre's press conference. I'm scared of the fiscal cliff, even though I have no idea what it is and most of all I'm terrified when I hear my Social Security and...

Once you get past the initial embarrassment of walking out of your apartment in a Santa Claus suit for the first time, and you get a "Hi Santa!" from a similarly clad New Yorker, the day gets progressively more magical.

There are only four things needed to participate in...

Everyone from Hollywood was in the movies. Everyone! You either lived next door to Clark Gable, like my grandmother, or went to Hollywood High, where my father met my mother, a rare beauty and accomplished swimmer, when she was 'discovered' by Busby...

"Let me see if I've got this straight: in order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy and I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I'm not crazy any more and I have to keep flying"
~Yossarian "Catch...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was...

Groucho Marx once quipped, "Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?" he also said. "No, I don't mind lying if it gets me somewhere."

I'm a filmmaker and one thing I will tell you. The camera never lies.

Something has been gnawing at me since Mitt Romney's "47...

A guy who will say "Binders full of women" will call you a 'girl' in the boardroom and ask you to get him a cup of coffee.

A guy who touts how many women he has hired in senior positions will tell you some of his best friends are...

In 1948, there was an odd film called "The Boy With the Green Hair." At the time, I really didn't know what it was about, or even what an allegory was, but I had a massive little girl crush on Dean Stockwell.

He played a war orphan whose hair...

On November 6, I will cast my precious ballot (or lever) for President of the United States of America for the 12th time.

And for the first time in the 50 years I have been voting, I feel a candidate has personal disdain for me, a sort of "Let them...

I'm on Social Security, Medicare and apparently, I am the 47 percent... with one little wrinkle (pun intended)... I used to be rich!

Gotta tell you Mitt, my cankles are rankled!

Let's do the "arithmetic"... I worked my whole life, was married, had a huge six-figure career, house in...

I grew up under the Hollywoodland sign.

Eisenhower was my first president. We didn't own a TV, but we had an icebox, we 'watched' the radio and music was called "Popular."

We were War Babies, born at the end of WWII, now on Medicare and Social Security. Dick Clark...