Widower's Tango

Because he decided from the beginning to go his own way, and continues to work, at 82, as a writer, director, cinematographer, and edi...

Mike Nichols (1931-2014). He was engaged in every dramatic medium - even in radio, since his first award, a Grammy, was for his comedy re...

When I arrived in Okinawa in 1992, which was to be my final duty station in the Navy, I attended "Island Indoc" - a week-long seri...

France under the German Occupation, which Albert Camus, on the day of Paris' liberation, described as "four years of a monstrous...

It has been exactly a year since Typhoon Haiyan, a.k.a. Yolanda, collided with the east coast of the Philippines at the northeast corner o...

My favorite writer, as anyone who has done more than glance at this blog will know, is George Orwell. Although he wrote novels, a few o...

I don't have much use for horror movies. The number of times in which I was scared by something in a movie is very low. (The overabund...