Dear Deborah
Letters to Deborah Berger-Reiss.
When I first saw Martha on television, she usedexactly three sheets of The New York Times Business section to make aroaring fire. I considered myself an expert fire maker, but I neededthe entire Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times. I watchedMartha and took notes.
Israel\’s newest weapon in its battle for economic well-being andworldwide acceptance is a tall, thin New Yorker with a great lambrecipe.\n\nHer name is Rozanne Gold.
The story itself is a laconic autobiographical statement that not only describes Wiesenthal\’s experience as camp inmate, but joins that experience to an excruciating ethical question about forgiveness. Now that Simon Wiesenthal is a legend and an icon, his modest story seems larger, somehow, and the republication of the book is a kind of commandment to read it again.
The Miramar Sheraton Hotel is one of the jewels of Santa Monica.It sits astride a full block on Ocean Avenue and looks west, over thePalisades and the blue Pacific. Inside, there are lush gardens, aluxurious swimming pool and tanned guests who look as if they areemblems of Southern California.\n\nThe hotel is where President Clinton has often stayed duringvisits to Los Angeles.\n\nAnd the Miramar Sheraton is the only Santa Monica hotel that isunionized.
Director Peter Bogdanovich is best-known for \”The Last PictureShow,\” \”Paper Moon\” and other films that explore the Americanexperience.\n\nHe is also known for his affairs with youthful, blond andquintessentially American sex symbols: a radiant, 22-year-old CybillShepherd from \”The Last Picture Show\”; the glamorous but doomedPlayboy centerfold Dorothy Stratten, murdered in 1980 by herestranged husband; and Stratten\’s younger sister, an actress thegrieving Bogdanovich began mentoring at the age of 13 and marriedseven years later.
Jews celebrate the New Year, 5758, a date that hasnothing to do with a Jewish historic event — neither the birth ofAbraham nor the flight of Moses from Egypt to the promised land.
It\’s only in recent decades that \”children\’smusic\” has mushroomed into a separate growth industry, complete withits own concert tours, TV tie-in shows and recognizable stars.




