Goodbye to Chatsworth Osborne Jr.

The comically irritating rich kid on my all-time favorite sitcom "Dobie Gillis" was played by an actor named Steve Franken, who ha...

How LSD made Jerry Hall a model.

An excerpt from her autobiography that I'm highlighting instead of all the junk about Mick Jagger: The idea of being a model started whe...

"The Parallax View."

A famous sequence from the highly esteemed political movie (which you can see tonight, free, at Cinematheque , in Madison): Glenn Erickson h...

"What do you think playground bullies grow up to be?" "Right-wing Republicans."

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich answers a question. Actually, when I decided I was going to blog this little interview, I planned to ...

Golden Globes!

Hey, watch the Golden Globes with me! Comment away. I'll be adding to this post, with each update indicated by a number. 1. And they sta...

When Warren Beatty showed his movie "Reds" to Ronald Reagan.

I think it's very interesting that the Deborah Solomon interview in this week's NYT Magazine does not have a full-length photograph...

The big, foaming mass-o'-celebrities blog.

Arianna Huffington thinks she's discovered something new in blogging: the group blog with famous people, a lot of famous people. If yo...

TV on DVD.

Tomorrow the new "Seinfeld" DVD collection comes out and Entertainment Weekly is recommending it because you'll get to see th...

The great Marlon Brando.

The brilliant Marlon Brando has died . He died on Thursday--I had a dream about him in the early a.m. hours of that day. We were looking at ...