The Writer's Life 5/27 - Relief

A recent Columbia University study links airborne toxins to lower IQs in children. This seems faulty, given the air we breathed in 60’s and 70’s, when pollutants were actually visible. Is this another attempt of leftists to shift the blame from personal responsibility, from the absence of fathers, from single parent homes?

Another month, another rise in murders and shootings in NYC. It is beginning to look more like a trend than a blip.

Here’s a trivial item that took me completely by surprise: A recent study found that Liam Neeson has the greatest influence with consumers, Pierce Brosnan second. Is it attributable to all the bad guys they’ve dispatched on screen, or their polished accents?

RIP Anne Meara, 85, who was equally adept at stand-up, film, TV and the stage, in dramatic or comedic roles. I remember how surprised I was by her performance as a troubled teacher in Fame (1980). She and her husband, Jerry Stiller, appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show 36 times. She wrote a play, After-Play, which NY Post scribe Michel Riedel describes as “one of the sharpest (if underrated) plays of the 90’s.” She is the mother of actor Ben Stiller, who has had tremendous success in film. Well done, madam.

My thanks to the two gentlemen who bought books today, and to the one who donated four, three of which are Stuart Woods thrillers. I was antsy the entire session, as I had a doctor's appointment at four for an EKG and to find out the results of the blood and urine tests I took recently. Now 65, the possibility of medical problems increase. I was imagining all sorts of diseases. Well, as Mark Twain said so astutely: "I've known a great many troubles in my life, but most of them never happened." My numbers were stellar, except the top BP one, which was 140, up from 134 last week. Curiously, the more troubling bottom figure sank from 94 to 80. Is the grape seed extract I began taking seven days ago already working? Then why the higher top number? Whatever. Needless to say, I'm in a very chipper mood right now, especially since Dr. John bought Killing, Exchanges and Rising Star. My thanks.
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