Monday morning It’s almost noon and I’m still laughing. If Saturday Night Live had skits this funny its viewership ratings…

Washington Actress Meryl Streep likely set the stage for a very political Academy Award ceremony Sunday night when she accepted…

I’ve not blocked out eight hours to watch the Academy Awards tonight. (“The nominations for best assistant lighting director in…

Though I am not, curiously, tortured with guilt about it, I confess to a prejudice. I don’t like acting. Or…

It all sounds so righteous. Soooo tolerant. There is the Oscar-winning novelist John Irving (in 2000, for the screenplay of…

Presidents Day. L.A. Off in a drizzle to my 12 step meeting. It has been raining steadily here most of…

God help us all as we have entered a new era, that of the athlete activist. There was a time…

For the first time that I can recall, I’m sorry I eschew awards shows. The other night at the Grammys,…

We live in an age of parody. Parody men, parody women, parody marriage, parody politicians, parody scholars, parody movies, parody…