So I’m sitting on Great Jones Street, The Five Point Restaurant on the Lower East Side, New York City. A clatter of voices to my right and – strangely – a parking lot across the street, lit like a movie set with cars on spindly straight iron rusted lifts, four levels high, the cars [...]

I’m back in the states, my mind somewhere over the Atlantic, since I woke up too early to this Sunday (still very dark outside, USA) morning, the day of the vote on Health Care. There is news about this upcoming vote in Europe too, but not like here, not like coming off the plane and [...]

“Haiti’s disaster, on the front of every newspaper, has given Goldman Sachsan unequalled opportunity. A simple act of generosity could bring it front-page publicity, one that would do much to allay the ontroversy on everyone’s lips. By donating just half of their bonuses to Haitian relief,they will outmatch the Haitian GDP, and [...]

On Monday the important banking CEOs were to attend a Presidential meeting at which it was billed Obama (getting slammed in the polls for his entanglements with Wall Street) would dress them down for their unrepentant behavior since receiving hundreds of billions of taxpayer’s cash.
But the biggest CEOs didn’t show up because of “fog [...]

So altogether there are about 20 little webisodes on the “behind the scenes of Numb3rs.” The show airs on Halloween, so until then there will be at least one little piece about TV production each day. It’s been fun putting these together – for instance, having music composed by Emanuel Heinstein who lives in the [...]

I find myself suddenly moving beyond myself. I suspect/hope this is a relief to some. It seems important (at least to me) to stay personal and as real as possible as to what it is to be human wandering around LA (and environs) at the start of this (still new) millennium. I think that’s part [...]