THE QUARTER-CENTURY MARK: Today's my 25th birthday, so I'll be taking the day off from blogging. Today also, incidentally, is the 25th anniversary of the release of "Animal House" -yes, it came out the day I was born.
Meanwhile, I don't think I'll ever forget that the day I turned 25 was also the day Bob Hope died, Liza Minnelli and David Gest separated, and John Kerry referred to "Muslim-speaking countries." Yep, people always used to ask me if I "speak Jewish."