We had our moments of astonishment as well, such as the snow, sleet and hail waiting for us in Flagstaff, Arizona, at the end of April. The 7,000 feet altitude may have had something to do with the unexpected winter wonderland. The steepest downgrade of the trip added the final touch of suspense as we slid our way down the mountain, hoping that a Charlton Heston style Moses might intervene on our behalf in case we needed some life-saving special effects. Those truck stop restaurants offered convenient telephones right at the table. His subject was media manipulation in the Age of Clinton.
People are afraid because they have lost their sense of humor.
That's why Neil insisted on a surprising amount of humor in the most serious book of his career. And a sense of humor played an essential role in our making the trip in the first place. There was one guy who looked upon J. Neil Schulman as a visitor from another planet. Here's Neil talking about his TV script that was produced on the new Twilight Zone , how feminists responded to the sex scenes in his novel, The Rainbow Cadenza , how he first sold an Op-ed piece to the Los Angeles Times , and other such evidence that he is a Hollywood Jewish intellectual writer type. And, by the way, he's to the right of the NRA in his pro-gun position.