From good friend Leon Gettler comes a Sun (London) article, ‘Charles Toothpaste Shock’. (Punctuation as in original.) Its first paragraph reads: PRINCE Charles depended on key aide Michael Fawcett…
As an antidote to royal wedding gushes, I recommend the Broadway cast album of ‘Camelot’ (1961). With Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Robert Goulet, Roddy McDowall and a highly…
Washington County, New York, offers a beautiful rural and small town landscape. With the Adirondack Mountains to its north and the Taconics and then Greens to its east,…
The May 2011 Harper’s has a superb review of ‘Another Year’ by Francine Prose: ‘Lonely Island: Mike Leigh’s Intimate Cinema’. I’ve praised ‘Another Year’ here and here. I’m…
From Rachel Maddow via Alternet, I learn that the Wisconsin Republicans have offered shots of booze for signatures on their recall petitions of Democratic state senators. Good for them!…
How much truth does the ‘King’s Speech’ hold? Increasingly, it appears to have been very faithful to the spirit of the story. A new sidelight to ‘The Warring Wives…
Few of the Minute Men at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, had ever been regular soldiers. A number had served as militiamen along side British professionals in the…
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), the lawyer who defended evolution in the infamous ‘Scopes Monkey Trial’, has a birth date that fitted him: April 18, the anniversary of Paul Revere’s famous ride. …