It Sometimes Is Just The Fear Of

That Era In The Late '80s Through The '90s Was Really When The Music Was So New, Fresh, Energetic, But Still Creative. It Hadn't Quite Gotten Corporatized Yet.

I've Always Been Really Curious About Things And Slightly Confused By The World, And I Think Someone Who Feels That Way Is In A Good Position To Be The One Asking Questions.

We Grew Up As This Family Of Deniers. And People Who Knew Us For Years Were Stunned When "the Great Santini" Came Out Because We Had This Appearance Of Being This Happy, Large, Smiling Family. We Were Taught To Smile, Put The Best Face Forward. And So When The Book Ended Up - Dad Swatting Us Around The Room, No One Believed Me.

An Interesting Difference Between African-american Humor And Jewish Humor, In It's Kind Of Basic Or Maybe Most Austere Type Form Is, African-american Humor, Some Of It Comes Out Of Playing The Dozens In Which You Insult The Other Person Or Insult The Other Person's Mother, And So Much Of Jewish Humor Is Like, You're Insulting Yourself. It's Totally Self-deprecating.

When We Spoke, Gene Wilder Had Just Written A Memoir Called "kiss Me Like A Stranger." The Title Was Suggested By His Late Wife Gilda Radner Three Weeks Before She Died In 1989.