Widower's Tango

When Don Rickles died earlier this month and I read some of the tributes to him, kept brief by the limitations that social media imposes o...

On the death of Fidel Castro last November, I read a story published in The Paris Review about George Plimpton that shed new light on an ...

While there have been moments in the history of film when the American film industry did not have dominion over worldwide film distributio...

Why are there so many lists being published lately? Even respectable news publications have found it necessary to publish lists - of not...

Martin Scorsese made some rather oblique remarks about the ongoing decline of cinema in an Associated Press interview featured in an artic...

INTO THE TWILIGHT OUT-WORN heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twiligh...

Last week, after one of the latest false claims from Donald Trump, Nebraska Republican senator Ben Sasse remarked, “We are in the mids...