My mother’s a better ‘clip artist’ than I am — and she reads more profound magazines than I do… in this case, THE ECONOMIST. This says: “CONTACTS ULTIMATELY MEAN CONTRACTS”. Other great quotes: * Networking is not just for the elites. * “Networking can be considered an investment that pays off in the future.” * “Abandon all…
http://www.people.com/article/ryan-gosling-eva-mendes-date-don-rickles Ryan Gosling & Eva Mendes were there. So was BOB SAGET, the first host of “AMERICA’S FUNNIEST VIDEOS”, who strolled in right in front of me as we filed into the Saban Theater last night. DON RICKLES was on stage, first time in 17 years. The locals all came out for him. BOB NEWHART….
Hopefully, we all have at least one teacher who made a difference in our lives. For me, it was Professor Page Stegner at UC Santa Cruz. I took an Independent Study from him about John Steinbeck — appropriate, since we were in Steinbeck’s old neighborhood and Cannery Row was just a thumb-ride away. I had…
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=dan%20pallotta%20ted I first heard Dan Pallotta speak at the Harvard course I took on “Exponential Fundraising”. He blew me away with his message of how we expect a charity to not have any overhead. How that’s impossible, and yet it’s become expected. How no company can exist without ‘overhead’. I was so enthralled with his message…
At a memorial service for my friend Martin, I got to meet someone else who cared about him. Nancy Olson Livingston, cloaked in emerald green, swept into the modern home in Beverly Hills and I couldn’t keep my eyes off her. Elegant, well-coiffed, simple gold jewelry. She had it all, and when we spoke to…
In college, all I listened to was Joni Mitchell. My friend Karen Schmidt remembers those days well — we went to few concerts of hers when we could afford it, and our “love of Joni” is still strong. When I learned that Rosanne Somerson, who’s the interim President of RISD, is also a Joni lover…
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For my birthday back in June, I slid a group of art-lovers into a fundraiser for the Laguna Art Museum. My sister Annie loved one offering — a “priceless” auction item that would take a small group behind-the-scenes of the Huntington Library, when it was closed to the public. Vin bid on it — and…
I’m a long-time “JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE” viewer. So addicted am I that when I went to a sleep psychologist to figure out how I could curb my insomnia, he diagnosed part of the problem: I was staying up every night to watch “Jimmy Kimmel”. When I started cutting out the last half-hour, my sleep…
