“I needed that scratch to awaken me.” -Tyrone Power in The Mark of Zorro Hooray for Hollywoke. Where once it steered…
Poking around YouTube the other day, I ran across a November 1972 Tonight Show clip on which Truman Capote declared,…
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,…
Charles Dickens’s landmark publication A Christmas Carol (1843), the story of Ebenezer Scrooge the miserly misanthrope who is transformed by…
Reading Mel Brooks’s new autobiography, All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business, I found myself thinking, “There will…
Time to take a break during the holidays — impossible during last year’s kerfuffle after the 2020 election — and…
Hollywoke may be spearheading the War on Christmas, but three cable channels are mounting a far more effective counteroffensive, running…
The other day, as part of my constant effort to find non-political content to vary my daily cultural diet, I…
