You’ve Loved Her TV Series. Now (Please) Read Her Literary Debut As someone who loves television nearly as much as he loves books, I am often fascinated by those writers who work for a while in the former and then try to succeed in the latter. By that I don’t…

Part 1: You Can Have Your Own Facts and Your Own Truth. Just Ask Oliver Stone In the last decade there has been a huge amount of debate among the talking heads and pundits if we live in a ‘post-truth’ era. This particular phrase is one that the media loves…

1943: The Cardinals Repeat as N.L. Champions as The War Hits Baseball and The Country Hard In the winter of 1942 the war began to hit America in earnest. Over 72,000 American GIs were fighting in the second front in the landings in Oran and Algiers. In the Pacific, fighting…

They Only Think It Can Work When Their Side is In Charge There has been a disturbing trend in recent elections in both parties as well as one that makes up the loudest voices of each party. They believe that the moment you become an elected official you are part…

I’m Certainly Beginning to Think I Was As I’ve mentioned in several of my previous columns, I have a few conservative friends. I don’t agree with everything they have to say — some of their thinking is sometimes offensive to me — but they’re not idiots and they have always…

Second Chance Week 1 Recap Those of you who read my article on this subject last week (and by my count there were quite a bit of you) might very well wonder why, having spend so much time and energy burying both the concept and the contestants in the Second…

Will History Repeat Itself With This One? Has It Already Started? I am cautiously optimistic that we are nearing the final phases of the labor stoppage in Hollywood. Next week, the studios and the WGA are returning to the bargaining table and while the WGA walked away last time this…

They Broke the Fourth Wall…and Built New Ones Just To Tear Them Down] Anyone’s whose grown up watching children’s animation knows something about the fourth wall. Some believe that the earliest attempt in modern cartoons came with Tiny Toon Adventures or Animaniacs. As I’m slightly older, I know better. I…

And If You Don’t Think It Does, You Should Still See it Anyway As the strikes in Hollywood have gone on for months on end I have had cause to reflect whether there is an appropriate movie that might adequately sum up the quagmire we seem to be stuck in…