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Lessons For Dylan

On Life, Love, the Movies, and Me

By: Joel Siegel

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Paperback | 1 May 2004 | Edition Number 1

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At the age of fifty-seven, movie critic Joel Siegel both became a father for the first time and learned that he had cancer. In Lessons for Dylan, Siegel shares all the things he wants his son to know—in case he's not around to tell him. It's a story about a life well-lived and about living life well. It's chock-full of earnest advice, hilarious anecdotes, a Yiddish lexicon, and recollections of everyone from Brad Pitt to the Beatles. Siegel lays out the History of the Jewish People in Four Jokes; offers Dylan manly advice on sex ("ask your mother"), culinary arts, the movies; and of course, offers a few lectures ("Be anything you want to be, but, please God, please don't want to be an actor"). Along the way, Joel teaches Dylan, and readers, a little something about growing up at any age.

At times heart-wrenching, at times laugh-out-loud funny, Joel Siegel has crafted an indelible and enduring love letter to his son, and a literary gift to us all.

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"This is a perfect book filled with the spirit of a life well-lived. Joel is a captivating storyteller with a hilarious and ironic sense of humor."

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Introduction	p. XI
I Don't Have Good News
I Don't Have Good News	p. 3
The Witch Comes Back	p. 28
The Witch Comes Back Again	p. 36
If It Weren't for the Downside	p. 44
Who You Are
Dylan Thomas Jefferson Swansea Siegel	p. 65
Who I Am
How to Decide What to Be When You Grow Up? Don't	p. 83
Joel Siegel: Critic	p. 85
Making a Difference	p. 107
I Meet Martin Luther King and Martin Luther King Remembers	p. 113
Bobby Kennedy's Joke Writer	p. 132
Damn Critics, What Do They Know Anyway?	p. 142
My Wife, Jane	p. 156
Who We Are
We're Still Here	p. 175
Our Cousin, Dov	p. 179
A History of the Jews in Four Jokes	p. 186
Cooking in Self-Defense	p. 190
Yiddish, A Brief History	p. 203
A Glossary of Yiddish Words in Common American English Usage Including 29 Words for Schmuck	p. 215
People I Met Along the Way
I Don't Care If You Want To, I'm Paying, You'll Listen	p. 247
I Meet the Beatles	p. 251
Never Ask a Question Unless You Really Want to Know the Answer	p. 269
Rosebud	p. 283
Hitler Was a Nicer Guy	p. 291
Lessons for Dylan
The Smoking, Drinking, and Drugs Lecture	p. 305
The College Lecture	p. 310
The Money-for-College Lecture	p. 312
Be Anything You Want to Be, But, Please God, Please Don't Want to Be an Actor	p. 314
What to Do When a Bully Picks on You	p. 320
"Where Do Babies Come From?"	p. 322
Something Your Mother Won't Tell You	p. 323
I'd Give Anything to Take You to Your First Ball Game	p. 324
Movies I Want to Watch With You	p. 331
On Friendship	p. 350
Why Don't You Live with Me and Mommy?	p. 354
Dylan Says the Darndest Things	p. 361
Prognosis	p. 369
P.S.	p. 371
Acknowledgments	p. 373
Index	p. 377
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Lessons For Dylan

On Life, Love, the Movies, and Me

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