My Net Worth is not measured in dollars and cents. I believe that we are the sum total of all our life experiences combined. And, good or bad, it all adds up to something. The question is, do you like what it adds up to or not? If you don’t, you need to understand that you had something to do …
I went to the liquor store Friday afternoon on my bicycle, bought a bottle of whiskey and put it in the bicycle basket.
Volker Schlöndorff’s Young Törless, which shared the FIPRESCI (International Critics) Prize at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival with Resnais’ La guerre est finie, has finally arrived here, and it emerges as a strange, hypnotic work with deep implications.
So much of our lives are based on good fortune. If you’re fortunate, you have parents who respected and admired each other, whose value system and priorities were similar before their relationship began. Living on you own or going away to college prior to starting a serious relationship is a great learning experience. You can learn who you really are …
My wife has these days when she wants us to "talk about things." We were discussing aspects of our future so when it was my turn I asked her, "What will you do if I die before you?"
Every chronicle play is a reduction of history. In a great chronicle play, this reduction means compression of events, intensity, selection — an artistic vision of history; Marlowe’s Edward II concentrates 24 years (1307-1330) into five credible acts. The Lion in Winter is another sort of reduction: It diminishes a struggle for the English crown into situation comedy.
[Not a joke for the most part but good practical wisdom] 1. Never shake a man's hand sitting down. 2. There are plenty of ways to enter a pool. The stairs ain't one. 3. The man at the grill is the closest thing we have to a king.
Numerous publications have listed an end-of-the-year in memoriam of the passing of famous figures we lost in 2017. Here’s list of actors that are still with us, but have slipped from the limelight. Vera Miles Sporadic post 1990 work. Retired Angie Dickinson Retired from film in 2009 Rip Torn Still active with obscure films, Video Games, VO. Don Stroud Sporadic …
How does a person earn the nickname, Tomcat? The story goes that a girlfriend of Courtney’s in Waco, TX, who ran a little house out on the range, had just bought him a Cadillac. One day she got angry with him and chased him through the house with an axe! Yes, I said Axe! He jumped out one of the …
Former basketball star Shaquille O’Neal is now Carnival’s newly-named Chief Fun Officer. Yes, Shaquille O’Neal. Of course it makes sense for he embodies the kind of people Carnival wants on its ships: social, happy and a tad goofy around the edges.