No brotherly love for killers
The nice Menendez brothers. August 1989 they brutally murdered their parents. January ’95, I reported — and found that precise column so I can quote what I wrote exactly. It was from the filth that was O.J. Simpson whom you may recall did in his wife — and got away with it.
O.J., out of whose lying mouth always came nothing but dental work, actually said: “Erik Menendez is a lowlife.” Really? That’s like Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei dissing the United States — or North Korea’s what’s-his-name peeing on Paris.
These brothers, decades in prison, are suddenly both quoted as saying — movingly — “We’re hugely empathetic for what’s happening in LA and to the thousands of people whose lives have been upended.”
Really? I remain enormously sympathetic toward them. So nice that they’re truly empathetic and concerned for the people they don’t know, never met and who never ever even changed a diaper for them. And I deeply felt that way when these two enormously caring and devoted children brutally murdered both their mother and father.
I guess it was time saving. Faster than schlepping around trying to find something that fits Mommy and Daddy at the Saks discount rack.
I mean, look at it this way. Erik was then 18, Lyle, 21. With shotguns, they shot Daddy six times, Mommy 10 times, so there was no mistake. Relatives are now appealing. Working to try and get these orphans — sentenced to life without parole — released and out of prison. The mantra being: “Their continued incarceration serves no societal purpose.”
Absolutely true. Because they have no more mother or father to kill.
Making love scenes again
Documentaries. Hourly it’s more documentaries. Even zebras now get documentaries. Comes now “Luther: Never Too Much” on the late Luther Vandross.
Mariah Carey called him “a once in a lifetime talent.” Jamie Foxx says he was so great “he could sing about furniture and make women swoon.”
Go. Watch it.
Meals on wheels
Listen, I’m collecting things.
Forbes is shoving out “10 Unique Dining Experiences To Put on Your 2025 Bucket List.” Since we’re coming up to Lent, this is such a great idea.
One’s under the sea in Dubai. Another, floating over a table in Belgium. Williamsburg takes you to not Williamsburgish joints you don’t need a passport for. Like Bang Bang Bangkok, a Thai joint with videos that take you to Thai streets and temples.
Training days
And a Gene Hackman memory: “I was a poor kid in a modest house. At 10, I came home early and ran into my uncle and father with a tape measure measuring the stairs. I figured it’s some big gift coming down. They said no, it had not to do with a gift. But they’d built on two pieces of plywood this huge train set on two big pieces and weren’t sure they could get it down our steps.”
And Drew Barrymore: “Do I like women? Yes. Haven’t been with one in a long time but women are more selective than men. You really have to like the person. If you’re more for men but definitely have this love for women, it’s just a matter of the right one.”
Mother’s Day is coming. Can’t buy happiness but it helps looking for it in more places. And if happiness could be bought there would be those who’d still try to chisel on the price.
And not only in New York, kids, not only in New York.
