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I moved to<\/strong><\/span> L.A. 25 years ago today: February 19, 1995. I still don\u2019t take the weather for granted. Everyday I wake up and say thank you, even if it\u2019s only 50 degrees. I live near a gelato store, smoothie shop and three vegan restaurants. I can order a tofu bratwurst at 2 a.m.<\/p>\n Everyone here is in the industry. I live across the street from the \u201cShameless\u201d guys. I\u2019m not sure what that is. A TV show? A band? I started off by writing celebrity profiles for Us<\/em> and People<\/em>. I wrote for Wings<\/em>. I wrote for Cheers<\/em>. I wrote for Seinfeld<\/em>. After Seinfeld<\/em> shoots, we would hang at Jerry\u2019s Famous Deli in Studio City. Jerry — Seinfeld, that is — once told me he liked working in L.A. because, since we had such long hours, he didn\u2019t feel he was missing much, like he would have in New York.<\/p>\n I bought my house here in 2002. My sister from Cleveland is visiting me right now. She can’t believe my sitch — my weather, my cuisine, and my net worth. My bungalow, which would go for $100,000 in Cleveland, is worth a million.<\/p>\n My first<\/strong><\/span> couple years here I could barely make the rent nut, but I hustled. I never turned down a gig. Now I let the other guys hustle. Last week I invested $100,000 in a gangster love story. Rob, a friend — also from Cleveland — directed and wrote it. Hopefully, we\u2019ll get it into Sundance. Then there\u2019s Toronto. Even if the movie goes nowhere, so what. I didn\u2019t refinance my house for this. T<\/span>he movie was shot in Cleveland. Rob gets great press back home: “hometown boy makes it in Hollywood.” Right now Rob needs about 30,000 Clevelanders to \u201clike\u201d his movie trailer. (Please search \u201cBloody Vista Boulevard\u201d on Facebook and click \u201clike.”)<\/p>\n Is it snowing in Cleve today?<\/p>\n [fake profile]<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I moved to L.A. 25 years ago today: February 19, 1995. I still don\u2019t take the weather for granted. Everyday I wake up and say thank you, even if it\u2019s only 50 degrees. I live near a gelato store, smoothie shop and three vegan restaurants. I can order a tofu bratwurst at 2 a.m. Everyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fake-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27669,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27420\/revisions\/27669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}