{"id":3889,"date":"2008-12-29T06:23:31","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T11:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2008-12-29T03:32:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T08:32:17","slug":"hard-to-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3889","title":{"rendered":"Garnish, Seemingly, Unnecessary"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started writing an autobiography once. I figured, “what better way to get out of a financial hole than to tell my thrilling story to the masses”.<\/p>\n

I got to about chapter 27, when I realized my story – growing up in a middle-class home in North Dakota, moving to Minneapolis after college, going through a few careers – might
\nneed a little “punching up” to really crack the big market and get optioned as a script.<\/p>\n

So with the help of my agent, I’ve been working on it.<\/p>\n

My agent once pondered over lunch “How lucky must those dang Holocaust survivors be? I mean, sure, losing their whole families sucks, but holy cow, there’s a story that doesn’t need anything to punch up the drama! I mean, zowie – every <\/em>Holocaust survivor has a story that’ll get on the Oprah book club!”<\/p>\n

I thought about what he said, while reading this story, about a Holocaust survivor who did <\/em>feel the need to gussy up his story:<\/a><\/p>\n

On Saturday, Berkley Books canceled Rosenblat’s memoir, “Angel at the Fence.” Rosenblat acknowledged that he and his wife did not meet, as they had said for years, at a sub-camp of Buchenwald, where she allegedly sneaked him apples and bread. The book was supposed to come out in February.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Rosenblat, 79, has been married to the former Roma Radzicky for 50 years, since meeting her on a blind date in New York. In a statement issued Saturday through his agent, he described himself as an advocate of love and tolerance who falsified his past to better spread his message.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

“I wanted to bring happiness to people,” said Rosenblat, who now lives in the Miami area. “I brought hope to a lot of people. My motivation was to make good in this world.”<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And he did.<\/p>\n

Where “good” is defined as “splattering egg on Oprah’s face<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Beyond that? Not so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started writing an autobiography once. I figured, “what better way to get out of a financial hole than to tell my thrilling story to the masses”. I got to about chapter 27, when I realized my story – growing up in a middle-class home in North Dakota, moving to Minneapolis after college, going through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}