Holding Onto One's Angst: A Cost/Benefit Analysis

Billy Joel reminds me of Al Pacino's Vincent Hanna character in the Michael Mann movie "Heat." A man married to his work above all else, he's on the downslope of his third marriage. When his partner Justine tries, once again in vain, to reach his inscrutable core, he explains that he has to hold onto his angst. "It keeps me sharp," he says, "where I need to be." And no one else is allowed to go near there.

That same sort of angst is both muse & curse for someone like Billy Joel. After all his excruciating efforts through his professional journey led to numerous & predictable pitfalls, he must've asked himself many times, "Is that all you get for your money?"

He's very lucky to have found Alexis at the point in life, age- and career-wise, which he did. Most of us don't get that many chances. Only the view in our rearview mirrors of what we missed.

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Featuring the search for his father Howard Joel along with sympathetic and sometimes emotional commentary from ex-wives Christie Brinkley and Katie Lee, along with daughter Alexa and current wife Alexis Roderick,.

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