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June 23, 2019
Jay Emmett was terrific in the documentary about the Cosmos. His description of the first time he and Steve Ross went to the "hot bed" of soccer had me laughing for hours.
I was disappointed to hear of his passing. He seemed like a great guy!
Marjorie Mazzei Raggo
October 11, 2015
Very sad to hear of Mr. Emmett's passing. He was instrumental in bringing my family and my dad Professor Julio Mazzei to this country when the Cosmos signed Pele. I was a young teenager at the time but I always remember him as a vibrant, funny and classy man. He will be missed.
September 4, 2015
He truly was my mentor at Warner's
Rest in Piece Jay. :-(
mick
August 27, 2015
Prescott AZ
News of Jay's passing reached me here a few days ago. Although we hadn't been in touch for years, the sinkhole it leaves in my formerly immutable vision of a world that included Jay, still and ever being Jay, is too wide to fill or cross.
We met and bonded in the basement office of the Taft Review, our high school newspaper. In retrospect, under the guidance of a loved English teacher/faculty adviser, Helen Griffin, the Review attracted an astonishing cohort of some of the best and brightest of Taft's 5,000+ students. Jay found his place as (What else?) our business manager. I was features editor. Our staff photographer was Stanley Kubrick. Our principal editorial writer was Leonard Sand, now the still-active Justice Emeritus for the Southern District of New York. Others became distinguished in less publicized fields.
During and after high school, for the still formative years of our lives, Jay had access to a spare '37 Studebaker belonging to his Uncle Jack. We used it to roam from Connecticut to Long Island, often double dating. He also had after-hours access to the DC Publication office in Manhattan, where we occasionally whiled away evenings, kibitzing and trying on the big leather executive chairs for size. Afternoons would often find us in a radio station sound booth watching the Superman radio series being broadcast. The director, Robert Maxwell, and his wife Jessica had taken Jay under their wing. Both influenced Jay's burgeoning creative sensitivity.
After he married Martha and they returned to New York, we again double dated. Jay was working for DC and he and Martha had set up housekeeping in an inventively converted Westport, CT barn.
Jay's favorite household toy was their new microwave oven, one of the first ever produced. He demonstrated how to cook bacon in less than two minutes so that it emerged lean, flat and nearly fat free. I use that method to this day. Dinner there was always a feast of laughter, supplemented by Martha's growing cookery skills.
Later, it was Jay and Stan who soberly delivered me, via subway, to the conscription office in Manhattan, where I was inducted into the U.S. Army on the mistaken premise that I could tip the Korean War in America's favor. By then I'd already quit an implacably boring job as an advertising copywriter to travel the world as a Pan Am steward...
The memories keep flooding back, but I'll stop here. Timothy Shriver's evocative eulogy captures my own reaction to Jay's death better than I could ever express it myself. I've saved it for a frame on my desk.
Steven, if you read this and care to share more of those memories, please get in touch.
[email protected]
July 4, 2015
i will remember my cousin Jay for the rest of my life. He was the "character cousin" growing up who was not only handsome, but had a great sense of humor. I always loved being around him mostly at Uncle Jack's house.
I will miss him
My deepest sympathy to Martha and his children,
Howard Liebowitz
Patricia L. Whiteside, Appraiser
June 28, 2015
Deepest Sympathies:
ADVANCED DENTAL GROUP
June 26, 2015
Our deepest condolences to a wonderful patient of ours. He truly was a great man! Our heart hurts for your loss.
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