{"id":21372,"date":"2016-04-27T13:13:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=21372"},"modified":"2016-04-27T13:13:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:13:56","slug":"oy-feckin-vey-my-grub-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/04\/oy-feckin-vey-my-grub-street.html","title":{"rendered":"Oy Feckin&#8217; Vey! My Grub Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There I was, feigning interest. It was my job. Readers wanted to know all about their movie stars, or at least about my encounters with them. From A-listers and B-listers right down to Z-listers. The whole stupid Hollywood alphabet top to bottom. Names <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jan-herman\/lining-up-for-paul-newman_b_130469.html\">like this one<\/a> to be forgotten as quickly as my own. They needed the publicity and I needed the job. I wasn&#8217;t a star fucker. I&#8217;ll say that for myself, having come from the newsroom with no more interest in movie stars than any routine reporter. I was a stand-in for star fuckers.\u200b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/my-grub-street-CT-recto-363.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21371\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/04\/oy-feckin-vey-my-grub-street.html\/my-grub-street-ct-recto-363\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/my-grub-street-CT-recto-363.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"363,543\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"&amp;#8216;My Grub Street&amp;#8217; Jan Herman [Cold Turkey Press, 2016]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/my-grub-street-CT-recto-363-201x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/my-grub-street-CT-recto-363.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/my-grub-street-CT-recto-363.jpg\" alt title=\"&#039;My Grub Street&#039; Jan Herman [Cold Turkey Press, 2016]\" width=\"363\" height=\"543\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/my-grub-street-CT-recto-363.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/my-grub-street-CT-recto-363-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/My-Grub-Street-verso-final-634.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21433\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/04\/oy-feckin-vey-my-grub-street.html\/my-grub-street-verso-final-363\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/My-Grub-Street-verso-final-363.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"363,543\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"&amp;#8216;My Grub Street&amp;#8217; Jan Herman [Cold Turkey Press, 2016]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/My-Grub-Street-verso-final-363-201x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/My-Grub-Street-verso-final-363.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/My-Grub-Street-verso-final-363.jpg\" alt title=\" Click to enlarge. &#039;My Grub Street&#039; Jan Herman [Cold Turkey Press, 2016]\" width=\"363\" height=\"543\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/My-Grub-Street-verso-final-363.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/My-Grub-Street-verso-final-363-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There I was, feigning interest. It was my job. Readers wanted to know all about their movie stars, or at least about my encounters with them. From A-listers and B-listers right down to Z-listers. The whole stupid Hollywood alphabet top to bottom. Names like this one to be forgotten as quickly as my own. 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