Mama Mia and Santa Lucia! Did y'all know there was an actual, real-live, puffy-hat-wearing, spaghetti-cooking, Italian-talking Ch...

Yes, in a strange sort of way. I remember this one freaking me out as a kid. I wondered why that car looked so odd, more like some sort o...

You wouldn't normally associate E. L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime (profusely adapted for both stage and screen) with er...

Four more friends and I hit 1,000-- will there be falling balloons, kazoos, confetti and champagne? This is an actual Faceb...

An artist, a man, a failure, MUST PROCEED. Proceed : not succeed. With success, as any world or unworld comprehends it, he has essen...

Egyptian Proverb:   The worst things:  To be in bed and sleep not,  To want for one who comes not,  To try to pleas...

I’ve believed  this for quite a while now. Let me explain. Until smartphones took over, every time someone in a movie was on the phon...

(Facebook-surfing can either be very boring, or. . . very boring. But I found something tonight. Then lost it, then found it again. It...

(A big p. s. The above quote has also been attributed to George Carlin and Andy Rooney. Pick one. To be honest, my bet...

This a.m. I got the following Facebook message which left me reeling with I-don't-know-what: distaste, revulsion, even a tinge of...

This is an excerpt from my third novel,  The Glass Character,  which features the legendary silent film comedian Harold Lloyd and his ...