I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.

Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

People this stupid shouldn't be allowed to live.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.