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FAREWELL, GRACE AND FRANKIE

By David Perlstein | May 13, 2022

One of our family left us. No one died. The comedy TV series Grace and Frankie (Netflix) aged out. I feel the loss. Seven seasons involved Carolyn and me with two elder women thrown together reminiscent of The Odd Couple. The straightlaced WASP Grace Hanson (Jane Fonda) and ex-hippie Frankie Bergstein (Lili Tomlin) were forced to live together…

MARKING TIME

By David Perlstein | March 27, 2020

Einstein was right. Time is relative. Now, with much of the nation sheltering in place, time takes on a whole new dimension. When I was 10, relativity seemed clear—in a childlike way. School days were long. Saturdays and Sundays short. A year? Endless. It took all of January to correctly write the new year—say 1955…