Stranger Things, the surprise summer Netflix hit written and directed by the Duffer brothers, explores the different world (and I’m not talking about the world of monsters) and culture of the ’80s. Ronald Reagan asked the question in the 1980 debates,…
Mention the phrase “patron saints” and plenty of people, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, will think it a quaint, outdated custom that assigns a heavenly protector to keep an eye on barrel-stave makers and ward off Viking invasions. In fact, patron…
Like many children who grew up in the 1970’s, 1980’s and beyond, I watched Sesame Street. Aside from Big Bird, Ernie & Bert, Grover, Cookie Monster and the ever underappreciated Herry Monster, there were the human characters like Bob, Gordon…
I was saddened this a.m. to read Aaron Goldstein’s R.I.P. for Burt Kwouk. He was a member of that seemingly endless pool of fine British character actors. My wife and I enjoyed Kwouk as Cato in the Pink Panther movies….
Darn, I missed Megyn Kelly’s Trump Towers sit-down with Donald Trump. But judging from Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever’s instant analysis, she didn’t exactly clinch an Emmy or even a Polk: Neither groundbreaking nor especially informative, “Megyn Kelly Presents” hoped…
