The Walking Dead is back for its fourth season. It began its new story arc last Sunday night, attracting a huge viewing audience, and for...

On a December day in 1966 I heard that Walt Disney had died. I thought it was the end of an era, that the Disney entertainment empire wou...

Tea party: more Benedict Arnold than Paul Revere . It’s hard not to look upon the dysfunctional mess that is Congress in 2013 as being ...

I am fascinated by this article about the filming of the movie Trader Horn from the June 1968 issue of American Heritage magazine. The mov...

As a former Mormon I found the 2012 “Mormon moment” interesting. I thought it would provide political enemies of Mitt Romney an opportunity ...

I was 16 and my brother 13 when the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964. We were the perfect ages to be infected by Be...

I watch Breaking Bad in a very specific way. I record it on my DVR on Sunday night, along with its sister program, Talking Bad . Sally is n...

Today I read that Sulustiano Sanchez-Blazquez of New York died at age 112. He was the oldest man in the world, or at least the oldest man wh...

Edgar Breitenbach, the author of this piece from the February 1962 issue of American Heritage magazine, could not have foreseen another pos...

Sally and I were amazed when we watched Life of Pi in its HBO debut last night. In the future when I think of the magic of movies I’ll thin...

The word came out earlier this week that Jack Davis, world famous cartoonist, had died. Thank god it was a false alarm, and word was quickl...

Watching a DVD of North by Northwest last night reminded me once again how good Alfred Hitchcock could be. North by Northwest had every...