In the summer of 1967, doing my best to become an adolescent pop-culture junkie in that media-starved era, I fretted over the fates of my favorite TV shows: Star Trek , The Man from UNCLE , The Wild Wild West , Get Smart , Batman and — yes, I admit it — The Monkees . I would have...
Diana Krall fans wishing to purchase her new album, Glad Rag Doll , have several options: • The “plain vanilla” version contains 13 tracks, on either vinyl or CD. • The “deluxe” CD contains 17 tracks: the original 13, plus two additional songs (“As Long As I Love” and “Garden in...
It was recently revealed that the author of the "A Gay Girl in Damascus" blog was an American man living in Turkey. The blog chronicled the life of a supposedly Syrian-American woman named Amina Abdallah, who allegedly went missing in early June of 2011. Major news outlets covered the...
Jennifer Lawrence has proven that a young film actress can sell plenty of tickets with the right material; The Hunger Games is no less than a cultural phenomenon. In late June, Pixar will trust the success of Brave to its scarlet-haired heroine, Princess Merida. But until quite...
This guide is adapted from my book, "How to Write for a General Audience." It covers getting started, fair use, write...
This month it was discovered that ads for the 2011 movie "The Zookeeper" were digitally imposed into a rerun of a 2007 episode of the television show "How I Met Your Mother." Product placement is extremely common in entertainment, ranging from television, movies, music videos and video games....
Music history contains a trend of celebrity alter egos, personalities that are occassionally expressed in the public eye. From Beyonce's 'I am...Sasha Fierce' album to Kathy Beth Terry, Katy Perry's 13 year-old geek persona, celebrities have showcased different personas. Many criticize...
Twitter poetry is a form still in its infancy -- some may laugh at me for calling it something so grand as a form. But it's out there, happening, with both new and established poets composing 140-character verses and marking them with a variety of hashtags for public consumption. This...
As America plunges ever deeper into the Fourth Reich (recall how the wealthy industrialists supported the Nazis), I o...
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