Steve Martin was awarded the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Award last weekend, recognizing his life achievements in comedy (and certainly not just to help promote his new movie “Shopgirl”). There’s no denying that he changed the face of comedy in the late 1970s with his albums, “SNL” appearances, and arena-sized comedy shows. He also had […]
Mike Sampson claims to have inside information on what’s planned for Sly Stallone’s sixth “Rocky” movie — other than utter revulsion by millions of American moviegoers.
Here’s my conversation with Scott Ritter, the former weapons inspector in Iraq and outspoken critic of the war, about his book, “Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein.” We talked about his trip to Iraq in November, 2002, when he addressed Saddam’s top officials and […]
Darren Holden is the piano man and lead singer in the national tour of “Movin’ Out,” the Billy Joel/Twyla Tharp musical that’s playing St. Louis this week. He was on my show to play and sing a few Billy Joel songs (and a couple that aren’t), talk about how he got the role and performed […]
I saw the face of hatred last night. Morris Dees, civil rights attorney and co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who has used the courts so successfully to fight and defeat the Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, was in town for an event on the campus of the University of Missouri St. Louis. […]