My father Norman Simon died over twenty years ago. A doctor, he was on the way to treat a patient at eleven o’clock at night and succumbed to an aneurysm before his car got out of the garage. A man of great intellectual curiosity and human concern, he has been with me every day since.
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Blacklisting Myself Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
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Simon's first non-fiction book - Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in an Age of Terror - Pub. date: February 5, 2009 |
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1. bubbanelson:don’t forget the yartzheit candle
Jun 15, 2008 - 9:21 am 2. bubbanelson:don’t forget the yartzheit candle
Jun 15, 2008 - 9:21 am 3. David:My heart goes out to you Roger (though I am sure your father was very proud of you). Your dad left a great legacy. Remeber though that you are also a father and I hope you get to shine in their reflected light.
I read this just after I called my 88 year old dad and I know just how lucky I am. If I may brag, my dad (a physicist) raised two physicists and a geneticist. Not a bad legacy. And his youngest granddaughter is going to college this year and plans on going into the family business.
Jun 15, 2008 - 10:59 am 4. Peg Kaplan:I, too, am one of the fortunate. Still have my dad (just shy of 87) – he’s in pretty darn good shape – and he has been one of “the best dads” since the day I was born.
From what I know about you, however, Roger – your dad is with you all the time – and the best of him, too.
The top dads bequeath that to us – don’t they?
Jun 15, 2008 - 8:38 pm