The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it.
My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.
If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.
I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
It's based around a Jewish family but it really is a universal theme about getting along and coming along.
I was doing a show in L.A. called 'Celebrity Autobiography,' where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities' books and hang themselves with their own rope.
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