Return of The King, the final installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, leads the Oscar nominations, which comes as no surprise to anyone who has watched the three films. Peter Jackson’s monumental film effort is incredible on several levels: 1–It is incredibly faithful to the books; 2–The three films are some nine...
Myron Demchak Jr., 40, of Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, didn’t care much for President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address, so he called the county’s 911 center, told the operator he was a terrorist and said he was going “to kill the son of a bitch.” This, of course, didn’t sit too well...
Cleaning out a drawer in my old rolltop desk the other day and came across a Gulf Travel Card, a gas credit card from the early 1960s. That card was the first credit card I carried, not so much because Gulf gas was all that great (it wasn’t) but because Holiday Inn honored the...
The composition is already there,” photographer Jay Maisel once told me. “All you you to do is find it.” Maisel understands composition better than most of us who view life through a camera viewfinder. His works about his beloved New York are the art of photography at its best. The same can be said...
With the passing of Bob Keeshan, aka Captain Kangeroo, the last of my childhood television memories is gone. Keeshan got his start as Clarabell the Clown on the old Howdy-Doody show with Buffalo Bob Smith, who died in 1998 Smith hosted the Howdy-Doody show for 13 years. Keeshan’s Captain Kangeroo ran on CBS from...
Always nice to discover something interesting in your own backyard. We recently set up a new studio in Floyd County, Virginia — the Blue Ridge Mountain Community where I attended high school and worked at my first real newspaper job. An Alabama transplant came by the studio. We were on the road but his...