I'm giving Alabama the benefit of the doubt and assuming that when they saw the name "Moore" on the ballot, they thought they ...

It occurs to me that if I could write 200 words about the passing of a comedian I could barely tolerate, I can certainly write one sentence ...

Jerry Lewis wasn't so much a comedian as a one-man demolition derby. His gift lay not in building a gag but in destroying it. He arriv...

When I find myself in times of trouble — and Lord knows, these are troubled times — I turn not to the Bible or the op-ed page, but to the mo...

Yesterday, Katie-Bar-The-Door and I finally got around to seeing writer-director Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster, Dunkirk , in 70...

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"The peculiarity of being a writer is that the entire enterprise involves the mortal humiliation of seeing one’s own words in print....

I've got nothing in particular to say about this milestone in music history except that thirty (-ish) years ago I was eating breakfast i...