Widower's Tango

Since I am in the habit of burning all my idols, the TV talent show American Idol , which just concluded its 11th season, has never attract...

In 1921 a unique little book was published by Knopf called The American Credo by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken. The book's subti...

When I heard that mourners of Whitney Houston (I was not one of them) were calling her The Voice , I had to laugh. The only "The Voice...

"All ages are the same. It's only love that makes any of them bearable." - Malcolm Macdowell, as H.G. Wells, in the movie Ti...

Littering on my island is unavoidable, since waste oollection is nonexistent away from town. Every once in awhile, a garbage truck passes b...

The importance of Oscar Wilde as a writer has been somewhat obscured by some well-meaning admirers who have enlisted him in the cause of g...

I was watching Martin Scorsese's spellbound Hugo the other evening, and there is a scene that re-creates a lost moment in movie histor...