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When my<\/strong><\/span> parents spent winters in Florida, I represented them at their friends\u2019 funerals in Cleveland. I didn\u2019t like the work. My mother would call from Boca Raton and say, \u201cEdith was such a good friend of ours. Please go, son.\u201d Screw Edith.<\/p>\n But I went. The hardest part was the walk from my car to the shiva house. I always imagined the homeowner would open the door and say: \u201cWe don\u2019t want any! Who are you? Have you no decency?\u201d<\/p>\n It never happened that way. I was often the youngest non-relative\u00a0at the shiva. I eavesdropped a lot because I didn’t know anybody. An old woman said, \u201cWhen I feel sick, I want to die. Then I get better and want to live.\u201d OK with me.<\/p>\n A rabbi<\/strong> <\/span>talked about the Cleveland Browns a lot. Rabbis usually weren’t sports nuts back then, but this rav was young and a major Browns fan. A food broker said to me, \u201cI sell Heinen\u2019s.\u201d What was I selling? Not sure.<\/p>\n My parents made me do it.<\/p>\n \u2014 \u201cDon\u2019t worry,\u201d the producer said. \u201cLebedeff\u2019s people tried to hit Joel up for royalties on \u2018Romania, Romania\u2019 for years. No luck.\u201d<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When my parents spent winters in Florida, I represented them at their friends\u2019 funerals in Cleveland. I didn\u2019t like the work. My mother would call from Boca Raton and say, \u201cEdith was such a good friend of ours. Please go, son.\u201d Screw Edith. But I went. The hardest part was the walk from my car […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28266","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=28266"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28672,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28266\/revisions\/28672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFootnote:
\nWhile shiva repping, I met a\u00a0 California man who produced Joel Grey\u2019s shows for 27 years. I said, \u201cI\u2019ll send you my band\u2019s CD and you can show it to Joel. Wait, I won\u2019t<\/em> send it. Joel might sue me for ripping off Mickey Katz tunes.”<\/small><\/p>\n