I will always treasure the writer Howard Fast’s words to me after he’d read my first manuscript: “Chris, you don’t have to be a lawyer, you’re a writer – and a good one.”
Now, right alongside that kindness comes this, from a client to a friend of his looking for a real estate agent in Greenwich. “Go to his blogsite, but I warn you – he’s not your typical broker”.
I may just retire from sheer gratitude. Thanks, Mario!
On the other hand, lawyers cross t’s and dot i’s.
Writers often forget to post the link they send us to.
Ummmm, the ex-communist?
You are welcome! BTW, rumor around town is that Riverside School will be closed for a period of time due to a Swine Flu outbreak. Do some investigating!! Greenwich Hospital is useless. Dont bother getting a swine flu test there. They dont do them.
“Ex” only because he’s dead, Duke. But I never let politics decide friendships. Howard was a funny, irrascable old gentleman who was blind as a bat when it came to flaws in the communist system (mind you, he died a very wealthy man, so he wasn’t so crazy as to send (all of) his money to Moscow)
Can you get on Mario’s rumor?
I would but cough – I’m feeling – cough – a little under the weather.Cough cough.
The Duke subscribes to the old saying, “the only good Red is a dead Red”.
Well then, Duke, Howard is indeed a good one.
Yep — now he can hang out with his hero Stalin.
CF, you’re a lucky guy to have met the great Howard Fast. “Spartacus” is a terrific read.
Interesting that Dalton Trumbo, a screenwriter who found himself out of work after being labeled a Commie by the House UnAmerican Act Committee back in the ’50s, was hired by Kirk Douglas to write the script for the movie version of “Spartacus.” And Douglas put Trumbo’s name on the credits, too, something unheard of back then.