Training Seymour
I have to laugh at the phrase: Training Seymour. Not because there isn’t a whole lot of training required with a new dog but with...
A Life Well-Remembered
Every year, I find myself engrossed in the New York Times Magazine‘s collection of brief epitaphs of Americans, famous and not-so-much, who died during the...
House and the Kiss of Death
Ten minutes into last night’s House, one of the famed doctor’s underlings gave their gravely ill patient a couple of pills and said: “Take these,...
Springsteen and the American Muse
Here’s the lead: Bruce Springsteen’s deep and nourishing Magic, released today, isn’t on a par with Born to Run or Darkness on the Edge of...
Live-Blogging Mad Men: The Debt to Cary Grant
“With Summer TV this Good, Who Needs Fall?” asks the TV Addict. And I’d answer: me. I’m looking forward to the new season, and...
Live-Blogging Mad Men – Chain-Smoking Tough Guys
Once upon a time in the west – and in gritty noir backlots – rough and ready men carried guns, drank hard liquor, and made...
Darren Stevens or Cary Grant?
Tonight is the second episode of what has already become something of a touchstone series this summer, AMC’s Mad Men. To be sure, what has...
The Bronx is Burning, But It Lacks the High Heat
When I got there, the Bronx had already burned. In the mid-80s, I was a reporter for The Riverdale Press covering Bronx politics. The borough...
Ward Cleaver’s Club: the Great TV Dads
Tomorrow, I shall take my breakfast under the covers – a twice-yearly occurrence around case Watson (birthday, too!) – and I shall enjoy the mild...
Richard Thompson’s Sweet Warrior: Battles Everywhere
The earnest thump-thump-thump of the bass drum on Dad’s Gonna Kill Me – the headline-grabbing anti-war single from Richard Thompson’s new Sweet Warrior album –...
