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MORE PARTIES

Last night at a private party, I saw lots of old friends. Bob Daly, who used to run Warner Brothers and his wife, composer, Carole Bayer Sager; Terry Semel who was at Warner Brothers helm with Daly an...

GOLDEN GLOBE AFFAIRS

I forgot what its like around here at awards time. Parties and more parties. I know this sounds crass at a time when Haiti is facing such profound agony. Everyone at the parties has done something to ...

CATCH UP

Time is flying. My blogging is getting really weird. One day it’s about violence against women in east Congo. The next it’s about my Xmas tree. Oh well. That is how my life is. Maybe everyone’s is lik...

New Book “Hanoi Jane: War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal”

Hanoi Jane War, Sex, and Fantasies of Betrayal By Jerry Lembcke A provocative analysis of how and why Jane Fonda the person became Hanoi Jane the myth From Aristophanes’ Lysistrata to the notorious Ma...

Eve Ensler’s List of What To Do For the Congo

From the Huffington Post: Ten Radical Acts for Congo in the New Year by Eve Ensler Having just been in the Congo for the last month, it is evident that the more than 12-year economic war in the Democr...

EASTERN CONGO: WHAT TO DO

Mike sent me a comment on the blog I posted recently—Eve Ensler’s powerful Huffington Post article about what’s being done to women in Eastern Congo. He wanted to knowhow men could do such thing...

RICHARD AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE

He won’t let me take it down. He so loves this tree. He thinks it is the most beautiful tree ever. He says he still is discovering new things I added to it that, in the hubbub of the Holiday, he misse...

The Huffington Post: The Four Months Since Hillary

By Eve Ensler I have been in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo for the month of December. Christmas at Panzi Hospital was overflowing with raped and tortured women. Many young girls, several under ...

RICHARD AND JANE’S XMAS PARTY

December 23 It was a really good party from all reports. Two reasons, I think: There were many but not too many people and they had the time and room to really talk. Also, it was a mixture of Richard’...

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