Should I feel threatened by the seven-day week? Some say YES, and their anxiety is beautifully crafted in a New Yorker article “How the Week Organizes and Tyrannizes Our Lives.” Harvard history professor Jill Lepore explains how “work schedules to TV seasons to baseball games, the seven-day cycle has long ordered American society. Will we... Continue Reading →
Abe Weissman presents
In the period drama series The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video) we are introduced to Midge Maisel—a fictional comic (whose story is loosely based on the life of Joan Rivers) who with her former husband, Joel, and her parents Rose and Abe Weissman, move through the tumultuous late 1950s and 60s New York entertainment world,... Continue Reading →