Mitch Albom’s “Tuesdays with Morrie” may have been a pop-culture juggernaut as a book; as a play it is pretty much Lifetime for guys. Albom’s memoir of afternoons spent in the company of a college professor he remembered fondly, during the professor’s last days, and the life lessons that resulted, was on the bestseller list […]
Tuesdays with Morrie
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“Tuesdays with Morrie”
A heaping helping of delicious schmaltz Theater Morrie Schwartz, Mitch Albom’s favorite teacher and the inspiration for his book Tuesdays with Morrie, spoke fluent Yiddish. He would be familiar with the word “schmaltz.” Although it traditionally refers to chicken fat used in cooking, the slang version means “overly sentimental.” The stage version of Tuesdays with […]
