Right, so everybody's been a-sayin' how much Kelsey Grammer's latest fiancee looks like the woman he's been trying so hard ...

Is this too inflammatory to write about? We're all so dependent on the medical profession, especially as we age (and we're all doing...

(Note: these excerpts from the classic phrasebook English as she is Spoke have been boiled down enormously. Hope they still make sense.) ...

ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE By Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolino Here is a small fragment of a little-known classic: an English phrasebook crea...

Since it's Sunday, I think it's time for a little confession. I watched that goldern show about Ted Haggard. That TLC show. Which me...

Today I found two books I had given up for dead. You know how you just can't find a book? It must be somewhere. I felt as if I was going...

The press has this totally wrong : she says "Oh, about thirty pounds' worth": meaning thirty pounds of weight gain . I am sur...

Right after his huge success in Camelot (or was it before? Ah, my mind's a wall!), Richard Harris had a brief turn as a pop star. MacAr...

I love clips like this (the original scene from the movie Camelot dubbed in Italian). I don't know where it came from. This Marzocchi fe...

OK, here's the truth about what Jackie said. JFK's royal reign was never known as Camelot until after he died, and his widow spoke...

You gotta dig this Mark Twain fella. He seemed to move from situation to situation like a mercilessly sharp camera lens, taking everything i...

So I guess I was right about Ted Williams. After the homeless hero insisted he wanted rehab, needed rehab, was all ready to go to rehab, Dr...

"Ted Williams, “The Man with the Golden Voice”, has agreed to check into a rehabilitation facility after prompting by psychologist and ...

You say you'd never compromise with the mystery tramp but now you realize he's not selling any alibis as you stare into the vacuum ...

I got watching an absurd Steve Martin comedy called Bowfinger last night. I saw it when it first came out about 10 years ago and had forgott...

I've been on a bit of a Mark Twain kick ever since I saw a superb PBS documentary about his life a few months ago. I got a copy of the D...

Do I seem obsessed with horses? Oh dear. Somehow or other, in my later years, it has come back stronger than ever. I wonder why this is. It ...

Well, almost. When a non-proficient computerphobe like me has to retrieve a file that contains an entire novel (several years' worth o...

There are few things more horrific in a writer's life than discovering that a manuscript is gone. I mean, just GONE. Not there. Not wher...

I don't like odd numbers, and I like even less the way people have been saying dates since the year 2000 (and did anyone ever say "...

Nature or God saw fit to erase my last post. Since I'm too thick-headed to get the message, I'll try again. For New Years, I wanted ...