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Nov.09.2012
Once I decided to put out my work as e-books, I started going over my manuscripts very meticulously. It took me about a year to finally push the buttons and throw them into the world. The Conversation books (Capote, Michener, Brando) were easy as they were already done and had...
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Nov.09.2012
Cleaning my desk I came across a small clipping I had saved about Bob Knight. It was dated Sept. 29, 200. 12 years ago. I kept clippings about Knight because I was preparing for my Playboy interview with him, which would appear in March 2001. My desk, obviously, was in severe need of...
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Jul.25.2012
His name was Enrique and he was in charge of the Spanish audio room at UCLA, where I begrudgingly went as a freshman to put on ear phones and listen to the Spanish I was trying to learn. He would correct my pronunciation, he would try to be helpful, and from the look in his eyes, he knew what I...
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Jul.22.2012
It’s 4 p.m and I’m hanging out at this warehouse-sized loft in downtown L.A., two blocks from where an episode of CSI-Los Angeles is being filmed. I’m waiting for my turn to appear before four art and antique dealers for the Discovery Channel’s new reality show Final Offer. The show is...
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Dec.09.2008
After Al Pacino: In Conversation with Lawrence Grobel was published I asked Al what he thought about it. It was awkward for both of us. Usually when one writes a book about someone, one isn't having lunch with that person every Sunday, as I do with Al when he's in Los Angeles. I often wonder what...
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Dec.09.2008
For everyone who manages to live into their Social Security years, a rite of passage occurs upon leaving your fifties behind. Each decade, of course, marks a significant passage and allows for reflection: leaving your teens to enter the adult world of the twenties surely calls for a deep breath...
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Dec.08.2008
Whenever I'm around friends or family who complain about how tough things are, how nothing's what it used to be, how the quality of life has diminished and life itself seems almost futile, I'm at times jolted to a higher standard of life appreciation by some immediate life-threatening event....
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Dec.05.2008
Recently I was asked by a member of the National Writer's Association if I would speak to his local chapter about what I do.
"What I do depends on what day it is," I said.
"That's okay," he said, "you can just talk about your life. A lot of...
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Nov.25.2008
I'm free. Free at last! And yes, thank God Almighty, after six and a half years of being infected by viruses, inundated with spam, having my address book adding addresses I wasn't putting in myself, unable to edit out those addresses because the system was always being "updated," being...
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Nov.05.2008
Just thought I'd share this with you all: Righting Civil Wrongs
- Larry
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About Lawrence
Lawrence Grobel has been a freelance writer for more than thirty years. He has written for numerous national magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Newsday, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Reader's Digest, Details, TV Guide, Redbook,...