Resolutions
UNITED STATES—I get steamed when radio DJs start chirping about resolutions, usually a couple days before people put on the funny hats and start...
Collaboration
UNITED STATES—The writer-director Everett Lewis called me up a week or so later and said he had read my screenplay. He said it was...
I Am/Was A Jerk
UNITED STATES—In “The Summing Up” W. Somerset Maugham rawly states, “I have never kept a diary. I wish now that during the year that...
The Doghouse
UNITED STATES—The Palmer House got all gussied up with the help of a threat from the city. Then came the big day of the...
Mattresside
UNITED STATES—The revamping of the Palmer House, a fleabag of over 100 rooms, didn’t just occur out of the blue. Nothing ever did in...
The Fox Outfoxed
UNITED STATES—The Wylie Empire included a hotel in a prime location on Skid Row—the elegantly named Palmer House on Wall St. (conveniently around the...
The $20 Man
UNITED STATES—There I was a few weeks ago in my hometown, up north, trying to get waited on in a doughnut shop. A man...