Celebrating the Living: Bebe Neuwirth
The answer to “do you ever forget who you’ve covered?” is yes. My calendar for…
Attention Must Be Paid: Vince Guaraldi
There is a progression of beginning piano. Everyone starts with “Chopsticks,” of course. Usually followed…
Disney Byways: RUNAWAY HEART
Harlequin romance novels can be astonishingly varied. There was one in the mid ‘90s about…
The Left-Wing Moral Terror of Oppenheimer (2023)
To me, the most interesting thing about the discourse around Oppenheimer is how few people are personalising…
Celebrating the Living: Richard Ayoade
Now I’ve read his Wikipedia page, I may have started to hate Richard Ayoade. I…
Attention Must Be Paid: Juanita Moore
My immediate reaction to celebrity deaths is to double check. It is sadly true that…
Camera Obscura: BAKER’S HAWK
It is a truth universally acknowledged that any story that can be summed up with…
SCENIC ROUTE: Goodfellas, “You’re gonna let him get away with that?”
My favourite scene in Goodfellas is when Tommy kills Spider. Goodfellas is famous as a bro movie, cited as…
Celebrating the Living: Rosario Dawson
One of the policies of this column is that I only write about people no…
Attention Must Be Paid: Ossie Davis
It’s a little sad to me that he and Ruby Dee start out separated by…