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Martin's Diner (circa 1954) was located on East Merrick Road near Karlston Place:

Now it is the NEFCU parking lot:

The Rainbow Diner (circa 1954) is Paul's Diner:

The Rainbow Diner was at was at Merrick Road and Fletcher Avenue:

STARK'S FLATS, 17-25 East Hawthorne Avenue
from the LI Herald

And this is the house that Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez rented during the time they were "The Honeymoon Killers."

HOME SWEET HOME

These are the childhood homes of celebrities: 

 

Bette Davis

 Dean Martin, torn down

 Jean Harlow

James Dean

 Judy Garland

 Patsy Cline

 Paul Newman

 Rock Hudson

 Orson Welles

The "Hurrells"

In an homage to George Hurrell, Frederick Piccarello took these photos of me in about 1976:

October 2, 2011

Homeland began in 2011. I became instantly addicted. And after every season finale, I looked forward to the next season. The year passed and Homeland returned. It is hard for me to say good-bye to shows that I have watched for years.

And tonight, the finale to the season aired and now the show is over. I hate endings. They are so final. And they serve to make very small the previous years and all that went before.

I cried when last night's episode ended. I was sad because everything that happened in previous seasons "fell away into the arms of time." Every year I looked forward to the new season and now Homeland has no "tomorrow."

I believe Carrie planned this all along. She planned how to become a spy for the USA while living in Russia. She played Yevgeny and now she is Saul's new asset!

And I am crying again...

I will review this episode soon.

NYC: A Ghost Town

WESTWORLD and THE BICAMERAL MIND

“Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?”

"These violent delights have violent ends."

Is Maeve's search for her daughter a parallel to the longing we sense in each lifetime for those we left behind in former lives?

coming soon!

NYC in the Still

Nono and Child

Here is a Nono Lebasque and my nephew's portrait of me from 1995:

The Yetta Brand

in Videos

and in writing:

THE BIG IDEA

I volunteered for a while at The Paley Center. It was a rewarding experience. It was there that I had my idea to write "The Liquid," which was sent by ICM to the writers of Seinfeld. They never used it:

I even sent the idea to Larry David when he was starring on Broadway in "Fish in the Dark." He never replied to me. 

So I did it myself, in 6 parts: 

The Pink Houses

114 Waverly Place

319-321 Grand Street

360 West 11th Street

218 E. 5th Street

THE DEAD

And perhaps soon, perhaps not... one day I will be close to that distant tree and one cold day the snow will be gently falling in that lonely graveyard where I will lay buried just as all the others who once lived and who now rest there. And I will be forever part of their grey world.