It felt like she had leaned over and stabbed me in the chest with a knife. For three decades, we had been more than sisters: We had been partners in creativity, business, and a force of two against the world.
Lamb Chop is six. She is forever six. But she lies about her age, just like everyone else in Hollywood.
The ad agency for a commercial I'm reading for described my character as a funny old Jew. Me? A Funny Old Jew? Sorry. Mel Brooks is a funny old Jew. If Henny Youngman were still alive he'd be a funny old Jew. I have no idea if Henry Kissinger is funny but, in the very least, he's an old Jew.
When someone says: 'He's in a better place.' What the widowed are thinking is: 'Better than here with me?'
To this day, 40 years after that final buzzer sounded, 12 silver medals lay unclaimed in a storage room maintained for the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. History says those silver medals belong to the Americans. Doug Collins and his teammates say that "history" is mistaken.