Where does God live?
In the desert, on top of a mountain.
What does God do?
He thunders and threatens and punishes and casts out and redeems.
Is Jerry Weintraub God, or is he just a movie producer?
Jerry is old like God [70, in 2008—77 today] and he too lives on a mountain in the desert, the Sinatra wilderness around Palm Springs, which is an oasis, just like the wells of Midian. He too communicates from afar, mostly by phone, but also travels swiftly through the air on his jet. In the cool of the morning, he walks in his garden, or moves over the surface of the earth in one of his many cars. Before he wades into his swimming pool, his face, for a moment, is reflected…