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	Armchair Travel: Jimmy Breslin
		My introduction to Breslin's work was a column in a New Tork paper where some police officers on New Year's Day were totalling up the number of homicides for the past year.
		Jimmy Breslin, as a writer, reminds me of Curly Howard, as a comedian, rolling around on the floor in the Three Stooges movies: he gives his all, throws himself into it completely.
		Old Jimmy one of my all time favorites.
	www.gonomad.com /armchairtravel/2007/02/jimmy-breslin.html (617 words)

	Jimmy Breslin's Incoherent Rant
		Breslin has produced an incoherent rant that tells us nothing new about the abuse crisis, much that is demonstrably false and more than anyone would want to know about his loss of a very literal and childish faith.
		In fact, celibacy was the Christian ideal for centuries before the church made it mandatory for secular clergy—a decision that owed as much to the influence of monasticism as it did to problems the medieval church had with married priests bequeathing church property to their children.
		Breslin is even careless in identifying close friends, describing writer Eugene Kennedy as a former Jesuit when in fact he was once a Maryknoll priest.
	www.catholicleague.org /research/breslin_woodward.htm (846 words)

	Jimmy Breslin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, 1930 in Jamaica, New York) is an American columnist and author who has written numerous novels and appeared regularly in various newspapers in New York City, where he lives.
		According to director William Friedkin, Breslin was originally hired to play "Popeye" Doyle in the 1971 film The French Connection, and completed three weeks of rehearsals with co-star Roy Scheider before Friedkin decided to recast the role.
		In 1977, The Son of Sam killer, David Berkowitz, addressed a letter to Breslin at the height of the Son of Sam scare in New York City.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jimmy_Breslin (407 words)

	The Gospel According to Jimmy Breslin
		Breslin doesn't exactly put it this way in his book, but the current scandal seems to represent all the sexual hypocrisy of the Catholic hierarchy, all its misogyny and homophobia, all its cosseting of tyrants and its not-quite-repented anti-Semitism, finally coming to a head.
		Breslin reports that in his conversations with other Catholics who ought to have known better, like New York police commissioner Ray Kelly, they all report feeling foolish about how long it took them to understand what was happening.
		Breslin is right that the Irish who came to America were the poorest of the dirt-poor, the wariest of a wary race, the likeliest to follow orders, ask no questions and do whatever was necessary to get along.
	www.southerncrossreview.org /37/breslin.htm (3476 words)

	Jimmy Breslin: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Jimmy Breslin (born October 17, EHandler: no quick summary.
		(Breslin incorrectly predicted a Kerry victory in the 2004 election.
		Breslin is the author of a biography biography quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ji/jimmy_breslin.htm (798 words)

	Still writing, still busy, Jimmy Breslin still has a NY state of mind - The Boston Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Breslin is 75 now, the map of Ireland still on his face, the soul of New York still buried somewhere deep inside.
		Breslin is still a newspaperman, so he keeps it tight, and he doesn't bury the lead.
		Breslin wrote the play in the first three months after he stopped writing his newspaper column in 2004.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/07/12/with_new_play_breslin_keeps_focuson_what_matters_real_people (925 words)

	The Church That Forgot Christ by Jimmy Breslin
		Breslin grew up in Queens and has a true affection for the meaning of the Church, but little respect for its hierarchy.
		Breslin shows how the Church uses money and intimidation to stifle dissent and uses the story of a convicted pedophile, the appropriately named Rev. Robert Hands, to prove his point.
		Dismissing the abortion-obsessed pope and bishops as a bad joke, he proposes the establishment of a new Catholic parish in the diocese of Brooklyn, headed by none other than Bishop Jimmy Breslin; after all, as he jibes, he is eminently qualified for the job, since he is not a pedophile.
	www.religiousconsultation.org /News_Tracker/church_that_forgot_Christ.htm (1176 words)

	New York Blade Online
		Breslin had failed to mention in the column where and when the conversation took place.
		Still, what had left many scratching their heads is how the 73-year-old Breslin could remember the exchange of a 12-year-old conversation so well that he would put it in quotes.
		Schneider went on to chastise Breslin: “The column did not adhere to Newsday’s standard of publishing only direct quotations that are accurate and precise.” Schneider did not indicate Breslin would receive any punishment other than this public reprimand.
	www.nyblade.com /print.cfm?content_id=1413 (830 words)

	alicubi journal :: what's doin' with jimmy breslin
		Breslin, who was born in Queens and lives there still, started as a copy boy and over the years has written hundreds of columns for several New York papers.
		Breslin's book, The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez, is the story of an illegal immigrant from Mexico who worked construction in Brooklyn for low wages and under dangerous conditions.
		Breslin read from the Gutierrez story--which includes, for context, scenes from small border towns and desert stretches where illegals cross into Texas.
	www.alicubi.com /articles/edroso_06.html (762 words)

	Introduction: Jimmy Breslin's Damon Runyon, A Life - Editor
		Breslin claims that his is not the typical biography that idolizes or reveres its subject.
		Breslin believes he is pioneering a whole new form of biography (which dispenses with bibliography, index, and footnotes and places a premium on imagination).
		The excerpt was chosen to show Breslin's unique style of weaving fact and legend garnered from newspaper morgues and "watering holes" to tell the life story of what many considered an essentially colorless, dishonest, and lecherous newshound.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1992/March/Sa20386.htm (282 words)

	When life is cheap / Jimmy Breslin puts a human face on Mexican labor in the United States
		Breslin is this country's fiercest advocate and critic of the American dream.
		Breslin shows that Eduardo left San Matias because he wanted to help his father build a two-story addition on their house, and the $5 a day he was earning as a bricklayer would never provide the necessary cash.
		Breslin's story of Gutierrez includes dialogue he could not have overheard and scenes Gutierrez probably never saw, such as a Russian cabbie staring at his cigarette while Eduardo and his brother exchange goodbyes in the Brighton Beach dawn.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/07/RV142258.DTL (726 words)

	THE PRESS / S.F. Conference / Jimmy Breslin tweaks journalists / N.Y. columnist laments 'boring' writing, liquor-free ...
		Breslin, with thick boomerang brows, tortoise shell glasses perched low on his nose and a raconteur's raspy voice, didn't disappoint.
		Breslin, an elegant and eloquent grumbler if ever there was one, was a copy boy, sportswriter and then columnist.
		Breslin, a lifetime Catholic who has pounced on the subject of pedophile priests, likened the church to the FBI.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/06/02/MN33241.DTL&type=printable (567 words)

	Jimmy Breslin Takes Aim At FDNY Radios, Then Paper Admits Mistake
		Breslin is an old-time newspaperman who received a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his commentary on the New York scene.
		Breslin said the radios first failed at a house fire in Queens in March 2001, and he even visited the house to see where a firefighter became trapped in the basement and couldn’t call for help.
		Breslin said Von Essen and Giuliani, “took the radios onward from the two-story house on Myrtle Avenue.” Five days later, he noted, Giuliani said the radios were good and the only thing wrong was that they needed a little more testing.
	www.911dispatch.com /stories/stories_2004/6_2004_2_ake.html (898 words)

	Express Gay News Online
		NEW YORK — The editors of Newsday have criticized legendary columnist Jimmy Breslin for failing to provide the context for an anti-gay tirade that he attributed in an April 7 column to Rev. Lou Sheldon, a conservative activist.
		Newsday issued a statement on April 15 indicating that the Breslin column “should have indicated that it was based on a conversation that took place in 1992.
		From Breslin’s days as a sports reporter in 1950 for the New York Journal-American, he has been a respected member of the New York press from the days when a raft of papers competed for readers.
	www.expressgaynews.com /print.cfm?content_id=217 (625 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Revving Up With Jimmy Breslin
		Breslin was emphatic in his analysis, lacing the bullshit rhetoric that has propelled him to celebrity status with incisive commentary about American life and politics.
		But underneath the tough-skinned Breslin, behind the wall of bullshit, in back of the Queens accent, the slovenliness, the vainglorious earthiness, is another Breslin.
		A Breslin who is frustrated and angered by a society that programs people to failure and ignores compelling social problems.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=108573 (1007 words)

	Damon Runyon, Jimmy Breslin - CJR, Nov/Dec 91
		Breslin showed the great teacher's capacity to be taught by students.
		Jiggs Bluster may have piped quotes and gilded scum in his time, but in the long run Jimmy Breslin offered this city a gift: he made it clear that the true experts on life are not officials and academics, but those who live it every day.
		Breslin believes this even more than I do, because this biography of Runyon clearly invites -- no, demands -- a comparison between the subject and the biographer.
	archives.cjr.org /year/91/6/books-damon.asp (1160 words)

	washingtonpost.com: The Passion of Jimmy Breslin
		It is centered in the borough of Queens, N.Y., where Breslin grew up, and extends to the Hamptons on eastern Long Island and west to Manhattan, where Breslin now lives and writes a column for Newsday.
		As to causes, Breslin points to one -- priestly celibacy -- that he claims was suddenly forced on secular clergy by ecclesiastical fiat for purely economic reasons.
		In fact, celibacy was the Christian ideal for centuries before the church made it mandatory for secular clergy -- a decision that owed as much to the influence of monasticism as it did to problems the medieval church had with married priests bequeathing church property to their children.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A25985-2004Jul29?language=printer (1005 words)

	The gospel according to Jimmy Breslin - Salon.com
		Jimmy Breslin wants to start his own church.
		To even the most firmly lapsed of ex-Catholics, this was a shocker: The men uniquely entrusted with the role of mediating between God and man, uniquely empowered to transform a translucent cracker into the flesh of Our Savior, had the same legal status, according to the archbishop, as traveling encyclopedia salesmen.
		I visit Breslin on a brilliant summer morning at his apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side to talk about the eccentric and highly personal new book that marks his farewell to Catholicism, "The Church That Forgot Christ." The housekeeper lets me in; Breslin isn't there.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/2004/09/11/breslin/index.html (630 words)

	Gawker, Manhattan Media News and Gossip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Reporting live from the center of the universe.
		The Times runs an odd profile today, of the forgotten file cabinets in the old pressroom in the Queens courthouse (yes, you read that right), to which Jimmy Breslin adds this non sequitur complaint that newspaper writing was better in the old days: more »
		Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator Jimmy Breslin wrote a column last week for Newsday in which he wrote that dogs are "meaningless," "useless," and "indescribably bothersome." He writes, "Out on the streets of the city there is the revolting sight of people walking along with their dogs and then bending and picking up after them.
	gawker.com /news/jimmy-breslin (116 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Jimmy Breslin says earlier column backs up quotes in column disputed by ...
		NEW YORK – Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin, accused by the head of a conservative lobbying group of making up quotes, on Thursday produced a 1995 column that he said proved the quotes were accurate.
		Breslin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, said the conversation took place at the Republican National Convention in Houston in 1992.
		Breslin said Thursday he's angry that Sheldon questioned his veracity and that news organizations took him seriously.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20040408-1829-breslin-interview.html (421 words)

	On The Media-- Don’t Let The Beat Stop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Breslin declared that his success was based on a simple approach.
		And I think that one of the things that Breslin has done over the years is, is to pay some attention to the afflicted in ways that journalism preaches but so very often refused to practice.
		JIMMY BRESLIN: At 5 o'clock at night in the New York Daily News, you couldn't see from one end of the city room to the other because of the smoke.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_111204_stop.html (1187 words)

	Matrix Issue 98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		But on the sway to the doctor Breslin decided that his problem was all in his mind and as he reached for some money to pay the cab and get out, he fell back in the seat.
		Breslin agreed to the surgery and at the age of sixty-five began to take stock of his life.
		Breslin married his first wife in 1954 and she later died of cancer.
	members.aol.com /wmtienken/issue36.html (1763 words)

	Jimmy Breslin signs off at NY’s Newsday - MORE NEWS AND FEATURES - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the mid-1980s, Breslin exposed a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme involving New York City’s parking violations bureau and, in 1991, he was beaten by an angry crowd while covering racial riots.
		Breslin worked at the Long Island Daily Press, the New York Journal American, the Herald Tribune, the New York Post, New York’s Daily News and most recently three times a week at Newsday.
		In 1990, Breslin was suspended from Newsday after referring to a Korean-American colleague with a racial slur.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6394426 (631 words)

	Newsday Columnist Jimmy Breslin Ridicules Rev. Sheldon
		Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin devoted his April 7, 2004, column to ridiculing organized religion in the United States during Holy Week.
		Breslin is claiming that this encounter supposedly took place in 1992.
		Breslin has since followed up with another column on his alleged conversation with Rev. Sheldon.
	www.traditionalvalues.org /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1570 (861 words)

	Press Release: I Don't Want to Go to Jail by Jimmy Breslin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Despite their differences, on one point uncle and nephew are in total agreement: "I don't want to go to jail!" When it starts to appear that the law is rapidly closing in on The Fist, he undertakes a bizarre scheme to avoid that fate.
		With humor ranging from wry to ribald, Jimmy Breslin insightfully observes the twilight of the mob.
		Jimmy Breslin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1986.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/56/0316118451/press_release.html (414 words)

	Amazon.com: I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me: A Memoir: Books: Jimmy Breslin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Breslin discusses the great loves of his life: his late first wife, Rosemary, his present wife, New York City councilwoman Ronnie Eldridge, and their combined nine children.What is most stunning, however, is his rock-hard Catholicism.
		Breslin's diagnosis and treatment for a serious medical condition, it is delightfully sprinkled with anecdotes that pop into his head as he's contemplating his own fate.
		Breslin's eye was injured in the melee and he seizes on this as an explanation.
	www.amazon.com /Want-Thank-My-Brain-Remembering/dp/0316118796 (1868 words)

	Poynter Online - Breslin: Get Lonely in the Crowd
		Jimmy Breslin attended his first Democratic National Convention as a copyboy in 1948, showed up as a delegate in 1972, and covered others as a columnist.
		Breslin has provoked his share of controversy -- as well as acclaim -- in 42 years of columns.
		He won a Pulitzer for Commentary in 1986 and, just a few months ago, was the subject of an editor's note questioning the accuracy of a quote.
	www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=69080 (551 words)

	Jimmy Breslin on education Hard Schooling
		The following is excerpted from columnist Jimmy Breslin s June 7 address to graduates of the City University of New York.
		I come here and discover that you are merely another fraud in the city university system.
		But it does appear that you have the will and the strength and the flame, and out there they live in fear, and they try to use statistics that lie, and there is no way that you cannot grind them down and get to where you want to go, to where you rightfully belong.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Education/HardSchooling_Breslin.html (663 words)

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