Fifty years ago, when Paul McCartney announced he had left the Beatles, the news dashed the hopes of millions of fans, while fueling false reunion rumors th…

Johnny Carson made his debut nearly 60 years ago, and became a touchstone in many of our lives for the next 30 years. Such was his influence that when in 1973 he…

The Early Years Of Sidney Poitier His parents had a small farm on Cat Island in the Bahamas. They traveled around the Caribbean selling tomatoes and other…

Andy Warhol In His Early Days He was born in Pittsburgh in August 1928. He did not have an easy childhood. His parents had immigrated from Ukraine — his…

Bob Dylan: The Early Years He came from the north country. Minnesota to be exact. Born in Duluth on May 26, 1941. His paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Z…

Golden Girls And More A friend asked me why there’s never been a male Golden Girls TV show. Women characters have been featured in lots of offshoots of that cl…

I read on a meme that sliced bread was invented in 1928, and Betty White was born in 1922. This means that sliced bread is the best thing since Betty White. If th…

We Drop The Ball Every NYE Unless you live under a rock, you know that a big, lighted ball drops at midnight every year on January first. You probably also know…

Life Lessons Of Roller Coasters One of the things I hadn’t brought up until now is that at Cedar Point and Kennywood my 11-year-old daughter largely stood to…

The names of history’s greatest writers are indelibly woven into our cultural tapestry—from Shakespeare to Faulkner, Ihara Saikaku to Richard Wright, o…

Carol Burnett has something in common with Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, Neil Simon and Tina Fey. They have all been recipients of the Mark Twain Prize fo…

A Stop At The Van Gogh Immersive Experience My sister was visiting New York City, so B and I went up to see her one day. We drove from Bucks County to Jersey City,…

It’s Been A Decade Without Steve Jobs Steve Jobs was a computer entrepreneur, a marketing genius and an inspiration to all Americans. He died in 2011…

What Are Movies For Mature Audiences? Remember when you were cool and young? And all of the films being released were filled with the hottest actors of the ti…