“People just aren’t used to hearing that side of the story.”Ĭorren’s grandparents on his mother’s side were Hungarian Jews who emigrated to the U.S. “Obviously there are poor Jews,” Corren said. Funds were often low in the obituary, Corren mentions his mother’s poor credit rating, multiple bankruptcies - and, intriguingly, an alleged affair with Larry King in the 1960s. The family is “100% Jewish,” he said, although he stressed they were non-denominational and not particularly observant. “That was my mother’s specialty, laughing in the face of quite a bit of tragedy.”Ĭorren is one of Mandel Corren’s six children, and said he grew up in the ’70s and ’80s on a military base in Fayetteville. “This time of the year, with the pandemic, the government, and the environment, things are feeling really bad. In hindsight, though, he said he understands why the piece touched so many - and that it’s a fitting coda to his mother’s legacy. She was also, at some point during the 1980s, according to the tribute, “the 11th or 12th-ranked woman in cribbage in America, and while that could be a lie, it sounds great in print.”Ĭorren, a talent manager and writer who splits his time between New York and Los Angeles, never expected the obituary to go viral. In the obituary, Corren describes his mother, who was known as Rosie, as someone who “played cards like a shark, bowled and played cribbage like a pro, and laughed with the boys until the wee hours, long after the last pin dropped.” “That was the crux of my mother’s genius, it was to just completely meet you where you live.” “When it comes to writing, you meet people where they are,” Corren told the New York Jewish Week, of how his words captured his mother’s essence. This was much to the surprise of Corren, who describes himself in the obituary as “her favorite son, the gay one who writes catty obituaries in his spare time, Andy Corren, of - obviously - New York City.”
The loving yet warts-and-all obituary of the “zaftig good-time gal” quickly went viral after crime writer Sarah Weinman tweeted it on Wednesday evening to her 380,000-plus followers.
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