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Jewish Mom for the Straight Guy

When my father informed me he had scheduled a business trip to Los Angeles and was taking my mother with him about a month after I moved out here, his timing seemed less than coincidental. Both of my parents had been anxiously phoning me on a daily basis since I left New York. The real reason they were coming was to make sure I wasn\’t living in a crack house, or at the very least had the decency to choose a Jewish crack house.

Westward Ho

When I accepted a job to transfer from New York City to Los Angeles, I figured October would be the ideal month to move. Just as bone-chilling winds began sweeping the East Coast, I\’d be basking in year-round sunshine on the other side of the country.

Good Timing Lands Luck in Director’s Lap

Greg Pritikin\’s film takes place in a sort of every-suburb America of tract houses with manicured lawns and two-car garages, and is utterly devoid of anything to place it in historical time.

Letting Go

We leave well before dawn and as we speed through darkness I keep asking myself how it is that I\’m now the parent of a college student — I can still remember vividly the details of my own freshman year almost 30 years ago.

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