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Before my brother, sister and I left home a few days after my mother’s funeral, my older sister decided that from now on, my family would always come to her house for Thanksgiving. So last week, my father flew up from Texas, my older brother braved Amtrak to come down from Yale, and I flew in from Cambridge to be with my family. Granted, it wasn’t your traditional Thanksgiving meal—a 20-pound turkey at the center of the table was replaced by two small roasted chickens, slathered in tikka masala, while...
...August 2002, Goelman flew to Los Angeles and donned his tuxedo for the Writers of the Future award ceremony. “Having Sean Ashton—he played Sam in The Lord of the Rings—ask for your autograph was very entertaining,” he says. And though the awards ceremony took place in the Scientology building, Goelman claims that “L. Ron Hubbard’s award is quite separate from Scientology...
...continued filming until that Saturday night, when I flew to Scottsdale, Ariz., to see my father, then returned the next day to Texas. My personal life was a mess. I'd been a faithful husband for nine years, but I now felt powerless to stop the momentum. Polly moved out of our hotel room, and we tried to keep the affair quiet. That week I shot during the day and saw Cybill at night. On Wednesday of that week, the phone rang in the middle of the night--my father was dead. I was alone, and I just burst into...
...when you're on location, you have to keep working; there is no time to think. That Saturday I flew home, alone, for the funeral. Standing by his grave, I felt as if a light had gone out in my life...
...special gift of those who visited the National Theatre to know how the ship rocked, what birds of political fancy flew overhead, and when the rainbow of intellect and heart shone as we sailed past the coast of Utopia...