Truman Capote on Brando.

The NYT Brando obit calls attention to "a crushing profile by Truman Capote in The New Yorker in 1957." The New Yorker has the Cap...

A sport I would watch on TV

if this athlete was playing. Sonya Thomas ... who weighs anywhere from 100 to 110 pounds depending on the contents of her stomach, ... is r...

Plastic cadavers in L.A.

The art/science exhibition of plasticized human cadavers, which I wrote about back in February ( here , here , and here ), is now in Los Ang...

Evaluating Marlon Brando.

The NYT runs an above-the-fold obituary for Marlon Brando. (You'll have to look at the paper copy to see this, but here 's the obit....

A questionable political gesture.

The Seattle Times has this story : Still smarting from the 2000 Florida recount, a group of congressional Democrats led by Rep. Eddie Bernic...

Another Fourth of July weekend image:

A Fourth of July weekend image: