New Year, new me. Nah. I'm fine just the way I am. Doing the things I love. Like enjoying

a latte on the bus with some music or on a walk with a friend. My only resolution is

to enjoy more of what I love. Like switching up my usual with oat, soy, almond or coconut.

All delicious non-dairy alternatives available at Starbucks. For no extra charge. While stocks

last, subject to availability. As many of you know, Hollywood is a delightful land of fun and fantasy

where starry eyed dreamers come from every broken home and rehab facility across America to turn

their miserable lives into the kind of entertainment that will spread their fetid imaginations over your

mind like a stain or a virus. Or possibly one of those really nasty funguses that starts in your

big toenail and ends up consuming your entire body. So you look like someone tried to make a model

of a human being out of cottage cheese and then forgot about it and the thing turned green and

started to stink. What was I talking about? Oh yeah Hollywood. Today for a change of pace, I thought I

take a little time off from the Hurley Burley of politics and bring a little of that Hollywood glamour

and romance and intellectual poison into your humdrum lives by letting you in on my latest film project.

I've recently started work on a delightful and hilarious new comedy screenplay called White.

Think of it as a sort of sequel to Big, the 1988 smash starring Tom Hanks. As you may remember in

Big, a little boy wishes he could be big and low and behold the next morning he wakes up a little

boy in a man's body and I know I don't have to tell you hilarity and soothes. My story,

White, is about the first black president of the United States, Barack Obama. One day near the end

of his term, Barack is reading The New York Times, a former newspaper and he thinks to himself,

wow, it says here I've achieved so much. I've fixed our health care system,

ended the wars in the Middle East and brought our nation's races closer together. Imagine what I

could have accomplished if it weren't for all the racism I've experienced. I wish I could be white

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