The tannest man alive isn't so bronze these days. As George Hamilton opens the door of his tony Los Angeles condo, his Super Swarthiness appears on the pale side, with even a hint of freckles on his face. ...more

October 26, 2008

Christmas is a week from Tuesday. Wow, that means just 10 shopping days left. One if you put things off til Christmas Eve. Considering the increase in the junk e-mail I've been getting, it looks like the 10-day count is just about right. By the way, is it my imagination or is the mailperson-delivered junk mail on the decline as e-mail usage increases? If you haven't already done so it's time to get out all those Christmas movies you have stored away on DVD and VHS. My favorite, I think, is the classic "The Bishop's Wife" with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven. Those are two guys that the word suave was coined for. The movie, in my opinion, is much better for the season than "It's a Wonderful Life." Getting back to e-mails, a friend of mine told me that when he returned from a week's vacation recently he had over 800 of them waiting to be opened. I told him I haven't received 800 messages since Al Gore invented the Internet. "Well," my friend then admitted, "half of them were checking to see how adequate one of my body parts was." Really now. ...more

December 15, 2007