Lee Blessing wrote a great play about Ty Cobb in which the hall of famer lamentingly compares his life to a “goddamned Greek tragedy.” Cobb’s father was a strict educated Southerner who had little
Poor Babe Ruth. He was desperately and passionately hopeful that his life story would be made into a Grade A classic like “The Pride of the Yankees,” and in return he was rewarded with
Dear Adam, I understand your predicament. You finally made a movie that Roger Ebert liked (Punch Drunk Love) and nobody went to see it. Hell, even the fat man saw it for free.
The Supreme Court says that pornography is any act that has no artistic merit and causes sexual thought. That’s their definition essentially … no artistic merit causes sexual thought. Hmm, sounds like every
Fun With Barry Manilow I won an argument the other day. This dude I worked with opined that Barry Manilow was really talented after his appearance on American Idol. He wasn’t kidding! Bill Hicks:
It’s true what they say about the devil weed Ordell Robbie: That shit’ll rob you of your ambitions Melanie: Not if your ambition is to get high and watch TV. Chris Tucker’s last 10
Superman “is probably the most heterosexual character in any movie I’ve ever made,” said Bryan Singer, director of “Superman Returns,” a new movie about the crime-fighting superhero that opens June 28. “I don’t think
I read a great article in the Sun Times today bemoaning the death of Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Paul Reubens, undeniably genius children’s show, which was taken down by a night in a X-rated movie
The Ox The Who As teens tend to do, I got red faced on any number of occasions when my unthinking brethren insisted that Neil Peart was a better drummer than Keith Moon.
Man he looks like he’s a 22 year old Rookie. Well, he was a Rookie, but do to racial insanity he was around (no one was quite sure) 42. Paige went 6-1 with a
I’ve taken great joy in lambasting this show. James Lipton is an almost living example of stuffy, pretentious, high brow nonsense. It’s like he daily tears down the notion of the intellectual through bad
Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing