DRIVER'S ED?
Like most juniors and seniors in high school, I expected to take Driver's Ed. Unlike most upperclassmen, I had zero desire to drive a...
SPEED READING?
I have often mentioned my ineptitude and lack of a motivating principle as a student, but I was not entirely without success in high...
THE TIME I GOT STOOD UP
It doesn't even seem that the concept of getting "stood up" even exists anymore. I mean, who even asks people out on traditional dates? ...
IT'S A SMALL WORLD
It doesn't seem like world fairs exist anymore, but when I looked the topic up, it seems there were a few in the 21st Century, but they...
TV TIME (Part III Sandy Becker/Jon Gnagy)
Children's TV made stars out of a number of people, some of whom I may write about in future posts. There was Captain Kangaroo, of...
TV TIME (Part II-Scandal Aftermath)
Last time, I discussed a popular kids show from the mid-50s, Terrytoon Circus, a weeknight staple. But there were wonderful weekend...
TV TIME (Part 1)
When my kids were young, we enjoyed watching all the Nickelodeon shows and the Nick, Jr. series. Of course, I introduced them to shows I...
ROSE
You can tell something of a person's life from an obituary, but one hundred words could not possibly do justice to Rose Chodrow. It's...
VERTIGO
In 1958, nearing the end of a decade of directing some of his most memorable and deeply profound films, Alfred Hitchcock completed...
SMILING THROUGH THE APOCALYPSE Esquire in the 60s
The era of great and influential and stylish and witty and provocative magazines is long gone, and our culture is the sadder for it....
