I'd like to meet the man who decided that people do or don't look Jewish. What the hell does that mean anyway? Is it the American penchant for pinning things down, catergorizing, for pigeonholing people? Whatever it is, it's wrong.
We started out to see some of Paris on foot with him, stopping at the famous Cafe de la Paix, where you were supposed to see everyone you knew if you just sat there long enough. To sit at a sidewalk cafe having coffee or a drink - the sound and sight of France all around. The Champs-Elysees was incredible - the chestnut trees - how could one city attain such perfection? Who had dreamed it up? Who had made it all come true? I wanted to see e..
There is always the fear that a wonder of the world can't live up to expectations. Not so. The Taj Mahal was breathtakingly beautiful - if anything, better even than I'd been told. Beauty like that is too dazzling to be imagined.
But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.
And making a fool of yourself is something all actors have to risk doing. That's part of our business. And that too is not the end of the world, though it can seem so at the time