Herb Gardner

This play is the story of Murray Burns, who is raising his twelve-year-old nephew in New York City. Murray quits his job as head writer of a TV show. That life does not only happen on the weekends. He prefers going to the movies instead of looking for a job. When social workers from the Bureau of Child Welfare come to investigate, they try to convince him to get another job. He must decide whether to accept some level of conformity in order to be...

"I'm Not Rappaport! takes place under a bridge in Central Park, where two octogenarians, one white one black, meet regularly, determined to fight off all attempts to put them out to pasture. Nat is a cantankerous Communist whose daughter is urging him into the old folk's home. Midge, an apartment superintendent spends his days in the park hiding in the past and from his disgruntled tenants."--Publisher's description.

A non-conformist TV writer is investigated by a beautiful social woker who questions his ability to raise a precocious 12-year old boy. Based on the Broadway play by Herb Gardner.

Eighty-one year old Nat Moyer is a compulsive and fanciful talker, a feisty philosopher, and a troublemaker given to assuming personalities. His daily companion on a bench in New York's Central Park is Midge Carter, a half-blind apartment house superintendent. Midge's approach to life is realistic and down-to-earth, making him the perfect foil for Nat. With vaudevillian flair, these appealing oldsters outrageously take on the world and its multiple...