Internet, Print and Film

This week is big. Usually it's just work, work, work. Writers are shut-ins, you know. I'm not kidding.

But now it's only a few weeks countdown to the launch of Sleeper. It's so exciting to have a new book out. We will begin to post events here. And photographs of people, not just me.

Speaking of people, don't miss the new articles appearing on www.Ilovequitters.com every week, and sign up to write your own. Starting February 5th, Veronica, who lost 220 lbs eleven years ago, and has kept the weight off, will be contributing weekly on all issues food, body, and soul. Veronica's insights will make you laugh, cry, and be a better person. Veronica launches soon.

This week is New York. Tom Garrett, the co-producer of our film, Rehab Is For Quitters, has a French film opening at Lincoln Center. Leon Blum: a Man For All Mankind is an official selection of the Jewish Film Festival and will be screening January 18-23. If you're in New York, go see it.

Leon Blum was born in 1897 and met Andre Gide. Together they wrote, and were publishing, poetry by the age of 17. That's not what Blum is famous for, though. He was a brilliant scholar and politician and was the first socialist and Jew to be prime minister of France. His story is remarkable in so many ways. He was part of the Vichy government during World War II. He spoke out against the government and was deported to Buchenwald. As the Allied army marched on Germany he was transferred to Dachau where he was supposed to be executed, but no one would follow through. After the war, he returned to France and became prime minister for a short time again.

The producers and director are coming from France for the opening so we'll get to speak some French. If we remember any. Later in the week I hope to visit the set of Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky's new film, a ballet story, starring Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, which is shooting on location in New York.

Mid week, the Glass Foundation is having a little celebration for Community Word Project. CWP is a New York City based arts-in-education organization that inspires children in underserved communities to read, interpret, and respond to their world and to become active citizens through collaborative artist residencies and teacher training programs. Alex Glass is very involved. It's a remarkable project over a decade old now, with children learning, and then mentoring children. To learn more about Community Word, visit www.Communitywordproject.org.

At the end of the week, I'll be in Tampa at the first India International Film Festival at the Channel Side Cinemas. It's a three day festival. If you're in Tampa, check it out. Nobody makes more films than Bollywood.

So, I'm busy with internet, print, and film this month. Please let me know what interests you most!