The following is an excerpt from a series of interviews I conducted with people who gave everything they had to their creative passions. In spite of attaini…

Britney Spears: An All-Time Favorite I’ve met and photographed many celebrities, athletes and musical icons but one of my all-time favorites to work with…

The Rise And Quick Fall Of Disco No other word in music can conjure more anger, emotion and antipathy than the word “disco.” No other style of music – or…

We’re Here For The Cartoons Every Saturday and Sunday morning I’d join the crowd of twerps and twerpettes waiting for the doors to open for the two o�…

Scott Sampila Scott Sampila is the producer of Fall and Spring (1996), Resin (2001) and the award-winning Remarkable Power (2010). He is also a mast…

I’m not going to point fingers, but there are people who think there is no difference between men and women (aside from a little plumbing).  To these pe…

John Farrage is an actor, known for Falling Up (2009), Eden (2012) and Rocket Men (2014). He is also a stage actor and an award-wi…

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gh…

Another Mona Lisa?! “You learn something new every day.” My mother liked to say that, and while it may not always be true as we get older, back then it certainl…

His middle name was Perceval. He judged the first Miss America contest in 1922. He saw himself primarily as a storyteller in the Dickensian mode. He claimed…

Stories about the status of Baby Boomers like the one in today’s NY Times leave me cold. Who cares that the first boomers are turning 65? It doesn̵…

I fell in love with the band Fountains of Wayne in the mid ’90s. Fountains of Wayne was a New York-based power-pop band, formed by co-songwriters Adam…