Non-spenders are now home reading. Mo Rocca — whose mouth is on CBS-TV Sunday mornings — is out with his Simon & Schuster book “Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs.” It’s on doing it again (even if not horizontally) in your 80s instead of staying home crocheting and kvetching.
He drops names like Estelle Getty, Rita Moreno, Diana Nyad, Carol Channing, I.M. Pei, Judi Dench, Morgan Freeman.
I don’t know how much the book costs. My copy was free. One more.
“Seventh Avenue Undressed: A Bare All on New York’s Mob Controlled Fashion Industry” (the title’s longer than the book) . It’s about good shmattas, bad guys, icky stuff even the Vatican probably knows and got good reviews even from designer Nicole Miller, whose clothes I bought at retail. Bobbleheads: Denigrating NYC courts was the stupidity forcing Bragg to bring this case.
Misstating our law compounded the problem. Friends must shut up about this trial, verdict, DA, judge and judge’s daughter. It’s a warning from legal people smarter than I.
More. It is libel to accuse anyone. Refer to an accusation or predict a prosecution — OK, but to call someone a perjurer, extortionist, even a “bagman” is dangerous today unless prepared to prove your assertion.
More: To see if he required representation, this guy asked an attorney who said “no” then sent him a $2,500 bill. He complained to a second attorney who agreed with the decision then sent the questioner his bill for $5,.
