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American television stinks. They give out awards (Emmys) for producing crap. The best thing that ever happened was the writer’s strike, which partially shut down the foul industry. If only we could shut it all down. Shows with lawyers and doctors and women who try to act and talk tough. Shows that...

Here I am with J.D. Hall in the Scorpio Rising Theater production of Void Where Prohibited in Los Angeles. I’m playing a sadistic cop once more. Obviously, J.D. gets the drop on me and my hapless assistant. J.D. Hall went on to a sucessful character actor career in Hollywood and provided the voice...

Here Here I am in the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble performance of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial in Santa Monica with the late wonderful character actor Logan Ramsey, a 50-year veteran of movies, television and stage. The rough-and-tumble of this scene (I violently shake up Ramsey) was eventually too much...

One day while meandering around the net as most of us do, I stumbled across several websites with lists of American Towns with odd, strange, and otherwise funny sounding names. Most of the town names are funny only because the English language keeps evolving and words are discontinued or their meaning...

One of the oddities of modern life is the gay parade, an event supposedly intended to express pride in a particular sexual preference. As far as I’m concerned, whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own bedroom is your business. Certainly, warmth, companionship and happiness are elemental...

A bizarre event I covered as a reporter was a big game hunting convention in Reno, Nevada. Two celebrities were there, former president George Bush (senior), and General Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of Desert Storm. Held every year, the convention promotes the hunting of exotic game, animals you may...

I think if I see actor Tom Hanks appear one more time on television as a spokesman for World War II veterans, I’m gonna puke. Okay, so Saving Private Ryan was a good movie. I’m sure Hanks is well-intended, a nice guy and a talented actor. But his struggle to make it in Hollywood represents...