zaza interesting facts

# zaza interesting facts

From:

North of Jewfish Creek

Dear Friend
& Subscriber,

I have a confession to make.

But, don't get too excited. It's not much of a
"juicy" confession. Nothing about drugs, sex, rock
'n' roll or felonious misconduct.

Here it is: I've gotten into the habit of
writing my December newsletter on December 31 and, I start
writing it a short time before midnight. I did that again this
year but, after only a few minutes, I stopped writing.

You see, earlier in the evening, I had visited
with the father of my son's wife. His name is David Proval and
he played the vicious "Richie" character on the hit
T.V. series "The Sopranos." On the show, he was a
very believable 'scary mob guy.' In person, he's quiet,
soft-spoken and totally non-threatening. Obviously, he's a
very, very good actor. After visiting with him, I went with my
son and his wife to a party in Palos Verdes hosted by my
friend, Dave Kekich. Dave has a new woman in his life and, I
think they are going to get married.

Anyway, I left the party early so I could
compose my December newsletter before midnight. I went back to
La Reve (a great little, almost "secret" hotel in
Los Angeles) and started on it when I realized I couldn't
think of anything significant to write about. My thoughts
flickered back over the events of the past year. I had
"mind flashes" on stuff like the unbelievable and
mostly insane presidential election... all the people I had
known who were suffering mightily at the unmerciful hands of
fate... the immense joy I had playing with my new
granddaughter (Emma Rose) who is the most beautiful and happy
baby I've ever seen. There were a lot of incidents of note in
the year 2000 starting, of course, with the
"non-event" of the Y2K crisis, the demise and
bankruptcies of enumerable dot.com companies, etc. I found it
astonishing that Time magazine
selected George Bush as their "Person of the Year"
since his singularly outstanding achievement was the
successful theft of a presidential election.

Can you imagine such a man being elected
"Person of the Year"... and... the scientific team
who broke the genetic code (the most important achievement of
the 20th century) was not even mentioned?

Thinking of all this made me feel more like
sleeping than writing. So, that's what I did. That's why there
was not, nor will ever be, a December 2000 issue of The
Gary Halbert Letter.