CBS broadcast eight Jesse Stone TV movies from 2005 until 2012 that starred Tom Selleck as a former Los Angeles cop turned chief of police of Paradise, a fictional town in Massachusetts. The movies were based on a series of … Continue reading
Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike are writers who met, fell in love, and got married in New York and now live in Missouri, where he teaches creative writing and helps his twin sister run a bar. They’re just about to … Continue reading
In one of Hitchcock’s best films, Jimmy Stewart is a globe-trotting photojournalist temporarily confined to his Greenwich Village apartment by a broken leg. Grace Kelly is his devoted girlfriend, rich, classy, and heavily involved in the fashion industry. She wants … Continue reading
(Update: I see I managed to post this review twice. I’ll leave both in place to avoid broken links. The other version is here, but with the possible exception typos I don’t think there are any differences.) Ben Affleck and … Continue reading
Charlie Chan has been hired by a French scientific organization to investigate sales to the collectors market of artifacts from a tomb whose excavations they had funded, and in the course of things he discovers that the body of a … Continue reading
Here’s an excellent video that crams a huge amount of information about life expectancy into less than seven minutes. The speaker is Dr. Aaron Carroll, a pediatrician who also writes extensively about healthcare and related matters (here, and here, for … Continue reading
Movies of the 1930s and 1940s often featured black actors in secondary comic-relief roles, frequently playing racial stereotypes. I recently suffered through an extreme example of that in Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935, reviewed here), which is a pretty bad … Continue reading
[Updated below with a link to Mitt Romney’s 2010 return.] An editorial posted yesterday afternoon on the website of the venerable conservative magazine National Review has joined the bipartisan chorus calling on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to release his … Continue reading
American humorist Josh Billings (pen name of Henry Wheeler Shaw) once wrote, “I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.” He often used variations on this, and it has been widely quoted and … Continue reading
Jackie and Dunlap on Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, and Newt Gingrich: From the latest polls Newt Gingrich is no longer the clear GOP front-runner, so the clip above is already a tad out of date. Still amusing, though. by … Continue reading