The Writer's Life 9/21 - Pinnacles

RIP boxing legend Jake LaMotta, 95. He turned pro in 1941 at 19. His record was 83-19-4. His six bouts with Sugar Ray Robinson, regarded by many as the best boxer of all-time, are legendary. He won only one, the second, although a few were close. He knocked Robinson down several times through the years, but was never taken off his feet by him. In 1949 LaMotta defeated Frenchman Marcel Cerdan to win the World Middleweight championship. He lost the title in 1951 to Robinson in what was dubbed The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, stopped after 13-rounds of a brutal beating. LaMotta then fought for a while as a light-heavyweight, the results mediocre. His memoir: Raging Bull, My Story led to the uncompromising, critically acclaimed 1980 screen adaptation by Martin Scorsese. He was married seven times and had several brushes with the law and boxing officials. He is known to have thrown at least one fight. Despite his sins, Ring magazine named him one of the ten best middleweights of all-time, and he is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Here he is putting Robinson down:

The world famous Woolworth Building in Manhattan has an apartment at its top. The asking price, in case you're interested, is $110 million. There are 34 condos in all. The Penthouse, called The Pinnacle, covers the 50th to the 58th floor. It has a terrace. Here's the outside:

And here's one of its rooms:

As I expected, CBS has done it again. As it did with Under the Dome and Zoo, it failed to end Salvation definitively after its 13-episode summer run. I will not be watching if it returns next year. I abandoned the other two after their first seasons.

I feel fortunate for having made a little money selling books on this major Jewish holiday. My thanks to the two women who bought four novels in Russian between them, and to the gentleman who purchased non-fiction by a beat generation writer with whom I was unfamiliar and whose name I neglected to write down. My thanks also to the woman who donated a bag o'books, half in Russian.

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