The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles runs a profile of bookblogger extraordinaire Mark Sarvas, delving into his family background (parents married and divorced in Hungary, emigrated separately to America and remarried), the unwritten Moonlighting script that brought him to Hollywood, and, of course, his groundbreaking blog, The Elegant Variation. And, boy, does Tom Teicholz love the site: “It is easy for me to imagine the two of us in Budapest 100 years ago, scribbling our feuilletons in the corner of a café, rather than in Los Angeles, each in our own corners of the increasingly wide world Web. If any of the Hungarian Jews who came to Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s were young men today, wouldn’t they be writing literary blogs?”
You know, a good number of them probably would. By the way, the answer to the headline’s question is, as best we can tell: Never, bwahaha! I thought an article about breakups called “The Candy Man Can” was going to prove me wrong, but no, that reference turns out to be for “Almond Joy.” (Of course, Sarah and I are both pals with Mark, so I have some bias on the subject.)