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After the book signing, Batali would fly home to New York City. His plane late, he would miss the private HBO screening of The Sopranos at Manhattan's Ziegfeld Theater. But he would make the premiere of Ring of Fire, the Johnny Cash musical on Broadway. Batali would then have drinks at the wrap party after the play; he got home around 1 a.m. A few hours later, he would get up early to take his boys, 7 and 9, to school. (Batali and his wife Susi Cahn live in Manhattan...
...History of the World, Part I and Robin Hood: Men in Tights)--virtually the entire canon, minus The Producers. Most of those are extensions of the genre parodies Brooks and other early-TV geniuses wrote for Sid Caesar. The gags are hit-and-miss, but when they hit, you feel them in your gut. And each film has at least one shining moment, whether it be flatulent cowboys or synchronized-swimming nuns. A big disappointment: no Brooks commentaries. The collection is incomplete without a juicy vat of pinwheeling ad libs from the foremost tummler--sorry, raconteur--of our time...
...Will you miss West Wing? I hate to see it go. When I first saw it on the air, I was just crestfallen. I thought, "How can I not be on this great show?" I was just hoping to get a guest spot...
People who claim that depression is something that one can live with miss this point. They say that for serious depression, people need help, but for slight depression people should suck it up. The problem is that there is no such thing as slight depression. Depression is by definition serious. If a guy is blue because his girlfriend just dumped him, it’s unfortunate, but it’s not depression. This does not mean he shouldn’t talk to a friend, someone at Room 13, or a therapist at UHS; if he thinks it will...
...depression distracted him, making it hard for him to pay attention in class. It exhausted it him as he lay awake at night contemplating suicide and caused him to miss classes as he caught up on sleep during the day. Most importantly, he was miserable. Despite his great academic performance, he couldn’t take any joy in his achievements. Ultimately, achievement cannot compensate for sustained misery...