Last weekend, on "Saturday Night Jersey 80's, I heard Ray Rossi say:"Coming up next, Leslie Ann Wunderman...you know her as..." and I knew that was my cue...it was time to write her story!
Chazz Palminteri called into Ray and my show this afternoon, and talked all about the original of "A Bronx Tale," the classic movie that reminds so many of us of our own childhoods. (I call it "our generation's Godfather – I'll get to that in a second.)
Michael Douglas, Mary Higgins Clark, Frank Gifford and Cathy Lee, Eric LeGrand and The Mara Family were among some that traveled into Newark this past Saturday for the 5th annual New Jersey Hall of Fame Gala at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
I remember my grandfather.
Not my namesake, since he died before I was born, but my mom’s dad…Grandpa Sal.
Since I was the first boy born into the family (my mom is the oldest of 5 girls); my grandfather would do handstands for me...
We all hail from somewhere else...even if we were born here!
My colleague Steve hails from Union City...Ray the Prize Guy is from Old Bridge...Jeff talks about his youth in Rahway.
Even those of us who were born elsewhere are "happy" to make Jersey home...
I didn't forget you!
The weekend intruded, but that doesn't mean we bail.
No, this is too important.
So here's what I did for the past few days.
Friday I did approximately an hour of abdominal exercises consisting of front planks, side planks with one leg raised, balance ball crunches, and something called floor wipers...