There’s a historic film short that both captures the pinnacle of the Hollywood dream factory and sends the proverbial warning…
Last week, Stephen Colbert gave conservatives our first laugh in 10 years of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, when…
The Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset wrote, “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you…
Wandering through the stacks at the college library one day in my freshman year, I happened upon the shelves devoted…
In Homer’s famous poem The Odyssey, the hero Odysseus traveling home to his wife Penelope after many years away fighting…
There aren’t many true masculine figures left in television. Jon Hamm is one of the last. You feel it immediately…
The Dream Factory: that’s what they used to call Hollywood. As the long-forgotten silent-movie star Norma Desmond sings in the…
Years ago, Bob Dylan spoke of the Bible as both the most underrated and overrated book in the world. His…
