One of my favorite shows on television right now is DAMAGES on the FX Network. If you’re into legal dramas and murder mysteries, DAMAGES is all of that and more. The show stars Glenn Close as Patty Hewes, the all-powerful attorney with a mysterious past, and Rose Byrne as Ellen Parsons, the young, smart attorney whose [...]
So what happens when there’s a global financial crisis? The weakest links begin to snap. It looks like Iceland is the first to break as their government has collapsed. Iceland. A small island country in the North Atlantic Ocean. Verrry cold. Let’s see, the capital is Reykjavik? That’s where Reagan and Gorbachev had a famous meeting [...]
I’m a big fan of celebrity interviews. Whenever I have the chance, I watch The Actor’s Studio or Charlie Rose, or catch the latest Barbara Walters special. Then yesterday, I happened to be listening to the local public radio station, KPCC (89.3 FM), and heard an interview with the legendary William Shatner (Star Trek, Boston [...]
Just got an e-mail message from my first acting teacher…. Yeah, okay, I’ll admit it. I’m a closet actor. There, I’m out. Ever since high school, when I was active in a church youth group, I’ve had an acting bug in me. The youth pastor organized a group called Mobile Theater. Every Saturday afternoon, we’d put [...]
One of my favorite columnists is Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. His writing reads very easily, while his ideas are very clear and deep. His latest column is entitled, “Radical in the White House.” He discusses his hope that Obama will be a true radical in the sense of not being afraid to take [...]