Last night the Independent Film Channel showed a couple of '70s blaxploitation movies with Pam Grier: Foxy Brown and Coffy. When I wat...

Click on my cancer to make it a bigger cancer It’s funny where profundities come from, those things that people say or do that suddenly, in ...

Click on the picture to see it full-size. On Tuesday, January 20, I opened my newspaper to this picture of all 44 U.S. presidents. What stru...

"...Deep in my heart I do believe, we shall overcome some day." Comic book version, late 1950s-early 1960s. Click on pages to mak...

I don't intend to turn my blog into a movie review blog. I don't watch that many movies, and the movies I watch are usually older an...

My old friend Larry died last week, age 86. When I met Larry he was in his mid-50s, and as cantankerous and curmudgeonly as a man years olde...

The writer of Vacancy explained how he got the idea for the movie. When he got out of college he and his wife ran a dude ranch. It was only...

Donald E. Westlake, novelist, died of a heart attack at age 75 on New Year's Eve. He was in Mexico with his wife. Westlake, who is one o...

Paul Newman is prominent on the list of famous people who died in 2008. He had a career that spanned decades, and made quite a name and repu...

Happy New Year. January 1, 2009, is our wedding anniversary: forty years. We eloped. Forty years ago tonight I was about six weeks out of th...

So, it turns out the dream romance was just that, a dream. The story of Herman Rosenblat and wife Roma , who it was said met at a concentrat...

Or is it he? I know it's been a week since I wrote you, my hundreds of thousands of adoring fans. Day after day e-mails fill my mailbox ...

A few days ago I was taken by surprise by a pair of blue eyes. As I lost myself in a reverie about eyes being the windows of the soul, the e...

The cult fave, pin-up model Bettie Page, died the other day at age 85. I don't think anyone ever thought of her as being that age, becau...

A coworker asked me a few months ago, "Do you ever wonder what happened to your old girlfriends? Do you ever wonder what they're do...

My friend linked to a really fun vintage pin-up blog . I had a thought looking at all of these old-time girly photos. What if a guy in 2008 ...

Thursday night we had Thanksgiving dinner at my brother-in-law Randy's house. We've been together for many years. Conversation was f...