In the popular new Netflix series The Girl from Oslo, Pia (Andrea Berntzen), a Norwegian medical student, is hanging out…
Just as his hero, Orson Welles, is remembered mainly for Citizen Kane, the first of the 16 films he directed,…
On my favorite sitcom ever, King of Queens (1998-2007), about unambitious working stiff Doug Heffernan (Kevin James) and his hot…
Of course the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year of 2021 had to finish its cruel handiwork by taking…
Joan Didion, who died on Thursday at the age of 87, was a California girl, born to an affluent family…
Reading Mel Brooks’s new autobiography, All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business, I found myself thinking, “There will…
The director Jay Roach, whose 2019 movie Bombshell is just out on Netflix, gained success with a couple of exceedingly…
The other day, as part of my constant effort to find non-political content to vary my daily cultural diet, I…
In Finishing the Hat (2010) and Look, I Made a Hat (2011), his two massive compendia of his own lyrics, complete…