
When
Mark Schiff was six, his mother took him into Manhattan every weekend for singing and ballet lessons. When Schiff returned to school each Monday and showed his fellow Bronx classmates what he had learned, the class would gather around and beat him up. Schiff's mother smartened up and enrolled him in karate lessons, but those came to a halt when the karate teacher beat him up.
When Schiff was 12, his parents took him to a nightclub. There, live
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