Zack O’Malley Greenburg Zack O’Malley Greenburg is the author of five books, including “A-List Angels” and the Jay-Z biography “Empire State of Mind,” and a former senior editor for Forbes.
He writes a music business newsletter called the Zogblog. I first got to know legendary sex guru Dr. Ruth Westheimer as an undergrad at Yale, where I took her seminar on “Personal Fulfillment and Intimacy in the American Family” in the spring of 2007.
And although I learned a great deal about her primary area of expertise, some of her most memorable comments involved another passion of hers: music. “Some people get aroused by Bolero,” she explained, rolling each letter “r” as she always did. “And I say fine!
If that’s what arouses you, then go have a good time.” Westheimer, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 96, became an international celebrity in the 1980s, breaking societal taboos around sex while building an empire that included syndicated television programs, radio shows, and dozens of books.
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