The Writer's Life 11/22 - Vanity

In today’s NY Post Larry Getlen writes about Carly Simon’s new memoir, Boys in the Trees. Of course, the question most fans want answered is who is You’re So Vain about? Simon admits that Warren Beatty is one of three subjects on whom the song is based, but does not mention the other two. Perhaps that is for her next book. Now 70, the songstress includes this interesting passage: “How does a person — me, or anyone else? — move ahead, push forward through life? The answer is that none of us does, not entirely. I have simply found a way of loving through whatever absences or dejection have fallen like tree branches in my path. I move forward by incorporating whoever or whatever is missing or vanished into my very being, my body, my breath. The psychologists call this introjection, but I call it surviving.” The article includes a lot of juicy nuggets about celebrities she has known intimately.

Leftists anxious for the collapse of Donald Trump's campaign have new hope. At a rally yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, he asked that an obnoxious protester from Black Lives Matter be removed from the premises. The guy was beaten, which may be viscerally satisfying to many but may lead to even more intense actions from the group. The divides in our country are becoming alarming, and no candidate on either side of the aisle seems capable of uniting Americans. It may simply have become impossible, especially economically. If we suffer another major terrorists attack, I'm sure the greater majority of citizens would unite in the desire to eliminate ISIS.

It's November 22nd. The only reference to the JFK assassination I spotted in the paper was an author's favorite books on the Kennedy clan. I haven't even heard a brief mention of that monumental event on WINS, a NYC all-news station I listen to briefly a few times a day. Of course, baby boomers are frequently asked where we were when we heard the news. I was on a staircase in Lafayette H.S., a freshman at the time. It was chilling.

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