It's the 21 Club for the 21st Century. ...more

January 24, 2009

No matter how many times Leonardo DiCaprio stars in a mob movie or Kate Winslet appears in a low-budget art film, they are inexorably linked because of the success of "Titanic." ...more

January 8, 2009

Sixty years ago last month, I watched my parents pull the curtains of their voting booths in a Michigan town hall basement to vote for the man who lost the 1948 presidential election. He was Thomas E. Dewey, a Republican widely expected, even by the Democrats, to vanquish wounded incumbent Harry S. Truman. ...more

December 17, 2008

I own an interesting hardback book titled "Bogey, The Films of Humphrey Bogart" by Clifford McCarty. It is a first edition published in 1965 by The Citadel Press. Does it have any value? ...more

December 7, 2008

As Ernest Hemingway knew, love and war go together like peanut butter and jelly or Jake and Lady Ashley. Juxtapose romance with constant danger, death and destruction and you come up with some of the most memorable stories ever written. ...more

November 28, 2008

As Ernest Hemingway knew, love and war go together like peanut butter and jelly or Jake and Lady Ashley. Juxtapose romance with constant danger, death and destruction and you come up with some of the most memorable stories ever written. ...more

November 26, 2008

Well, it was a dumb idea in the first place. The "civil campaign" pledge. What a hoot. ...more

July 30, 2008

There is much to deplore about the practice of smoking cigarettes, including the likelihood the vile habit played a role in the too-early deaths of silver-screen giants Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Lon Chaney, Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner. ...more

May 29, 2008

It's difficult to judge Grille One Sixteen by its exterior, given that it's a white block of a building in a shopping center that's also home to a kid's gymnasium and a tax preparer. ...more

May 22, 2008

In the collecting world, Doug Taylor is what is known as a completist. ...more

February 1, 2008