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A fond farewell to comedian Robert Schimmel

“I was in the oncologist’s office with my parents and my wife, and he said, ‘There’s Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and you have non-Hodgkin’s.’ And I said, ‘You know, that’s just my luck. I got the one that’s not named after the guy.’ And he laughed, and he said, ‘You’re going to be OK.’ And I said, ‘How do you know?’ And he said, ‘Because of your attitude … you’re who you are and you’re finding humor.’ And he said that’s a healthy thing. … And that’s the way I choose to look at it. You know, I can be miserable. I mean, I have the ultimate trump card: I lost a child. I can fail at anything and use him for an excuse. And instead, it forces me to do the opposite.”\n— Robert Schimmel

‘24’ writer/producer sees Iraq up close

Howard Gordon, the writer/producer behind Fox’s “24,” got a real-life dose of political intrigue during a recent trip to Iraq organized by the Pacific Council on International Policy, a nonpartisan international affairs group with close ties to the U.S. Department of Defense. Gordon talks here about spending the night in Saddam Hussein’s palace, why American Jews should care about progress in Iraq and how Hollywood could be doing more to spread American values.

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