My favorite interview question came from a reporter for The Jewish Daily Forward. Addams Family Values had just opened, and the reporter asked me, “Do you think the Addams Family are Jewish?” I answered, “Do you want them to be?”
My most awkward introduction occured while a play of mine was being produced in California. I was set to appear on an extremely liberal radio show in Berkeley. The host had one of those solemn, whispery, NPR voices, and he said, “Later today, we’ll be talking to Alice Walker about female genital mutilation. And now here’s Paul Rudnick, the author of Jeffrey.”
November 23, 2013
