In honor of his birthday today, here's a portion of my most popular post about Charlie Chaplin. "I classify Chaplin as the greate...

D.W. Griffith's Intolerance that is, which is playing at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art on Saturday, March 9, 2013, at 3 p...

In a comment to my last post about W.C. Handy , Mister Muleboy noted that he had taken advantage of my implied invitation to climb into the ...

In case you know nothing about it, Intolerance weaves four separate story lines—the life of Christ, the fall of Babylon, the massacre of th...

Katie-Bar-The-Door and I spent the whole day with carpet installers, roofers and building contractors. Time for a nap. But just because I...

Even if you don't know her name, chances are you know Anita Loos's work. Not only did she write the novel Gentleman Prefer Blondes ...

(To read Part One of this essay, click here . For Part Two, click here .) The Chaplin Mutuals "I classify Chaplin as the greatest moti...