This is I, / Hamlet the Dane. — Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1 Unless you count the giant, icy island of Greenland — which is fifty times its size with a hundredth of its population — Denmark is a tiny…
Fox News and other media outlets report that actor Harrison Ford got emotional when he announced at Disney’s D23 expo on Saturday that the fifth installment of the Indiana Jones movies will be his last time portraying the popular action-movie…
I suspect that there were more than a few youngish New York Times readers who, on July 14, were baffled to turn a page and encounter a 2,500-word think piece about Janeane Garofalo. Jane who? Perhaps you’re too young to…
I’m no monarchist, but I have to admit that I was moved the other day by the British people’s massive show of affection for their sovereign on her Platinum Jubilee. I was stirred by the flyover of 15 Typhoons in…
Whoopi Goldberg did not actually say that “all white people look alike to me,” but she implied it during her enlightening comments concerning the Holocaust on the ABC’s The View program recently. The tenor of her remarks was that the…
Once upon a time, a stripper and her lawyer joined forces to accuse a Republican presidential candidate of having an extramarital affair. After claiming that she had a one-night stand with the candidate, the stripper became an instant celebrity with…
On my favorite sitcom ever, King of Queens (1998-2007), about unambitious working stiff Doug Heffernan (Kevin James) and his hot — and hotheaded — wife, Carrie (Leah Remini), Patton Oswalt played Doug’s friend Spence Olchin, who in the first few…
Here’s a depressing thought. The three people most likely to appear at the top of the November ballot in 2024 are President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and former President Donald Trump. If Biden, who turns 80 next year,…
The late, great mystery writer P.D. James said she knew early on that she had a great interest in crime and mystery. As a very young girl, when she first heard the story of Humpty Dumpty and his great fall,…
