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About Me

The seeds of my survival skills were planted in the fields of comedy when my folks fled New York City to live what they thought would be the quiet suburban life on Long Island. I graduated with a B.A. in English and a love for Laura Nyro and loud pushy people after attending the aptly named Queens College in the years after the Stonewall riots. Segueing from the Romantic Poets and Transcendentalists to a stint on Wall Street did not work for this child of a union organizer and political activist. I became a nurse and moved to Los Angeles where, to maintain my sanity while caring for whining celebrity patients, I performed stand-up comedy on my nights off. A decade later, my performance teacher, Charlie Varon, quietly said to me: “Jake, you don’t have to be funny all the time…try telling a story.” I began writing stories which I went on enact as monologues in Los Angeles and San Francisco. I quickly became mesmerized by writing or typing words, dreams, thoughts and sentences on clean white pages or empty screens. I came to understand that while I loved performing, I didn’t have to do it. But, I must write. It is the only way I can get remotely close to making the connection.

My Blog

Will Todd Palins hands pray for me?

    I had spent so many days staring out the window of a patient room in the Intensive Care Unit at Century City Hospital that I knew I had a decision to make immediately upon seeing t...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:14:00 GMT

Julie Christies boyfriend was not sitting next to me on the afternoon I accepted my Oscar.

    It is the night before the Oscars and, for several weeks, something has been very wrong.  I first smelled it a week before this past Valentine’s Day, when I was driving ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:46:00 GMT

"The ice is cracking."

    When I was an eighteen year old high school graduate, my father took me on the Long Island Railroad into New York City to meet with a man I was to stay in touch with when I went t...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:26:00 GMT

Qustion: Werent fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers Saudis?

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Posted by on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:23:00 GMT

I know this is Hollywood, but......

&.check out this job posting on Careerbuilders.com Description A busy, high profile, very down to earth Celebrity Musician/Actor in the Entertainment Industry seeks Personal Assistant. This position ...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:02:00 GMT

The homeland: sixty-six years after Pearl Harbor Day

The homeland: sixty-six years after Pearl Harbor Day     It had to have been the threat of rain that frightened the driving population of Los Angeles into their homes yesterday aftern...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:07:00 GMT