Little Richard Feels Pretty

Little Richard Feels Pretty

I just heard Little Richard’s version of “I Feel Pretty” from “West Side Story,” and can’t get it out of my head. So, I have to share this wonderful oddity with you.

A Pizza My Mind

A Pizza My Mind

This weekend, my wife and I did something we rarely do — go out to eat on a Saturday night. The problem wasn’t the food. It was other customers slowing things down. Here’s the story.

MYMNK: “Cinema Paradiso”

MYMNK: “Cinema Paradiso”

For some reason, I had never gotten around to seeing this 1988 classic, but I’m glad I watched it last night so I can add it to my Movies You Might Not Know list today. Here’s my review.

Hair Of The Dog

Hair Of The Dog

I have never liked being around dogs. This story from early in my radio career may help explain why.

No Metric System

No Metric System

I have a friend who’s obsessed with the metrics of everything he posts online. Here’s why such numbers have never influenced anything I’ve created — on the air or online.

Seven Great Documentaries

Seven Great Documentaries

Here are seven documentaries from this year I heartily recommend to you, with subjects including Bill Russell, Albert Brooks, Yogi Berra, and why we should look again at nuclear power.

Tommy Smothers

Tommy Smothers

I’m saddened to hear of the death of Tommy Smothers at the age of 86. Here’s a conversation I had with him in 2007 about his long career with brother Dick — and the time he taught John Lennon the right way to play a song.

Worst Movies Of 2023

Worst Movies Of 2023

It can be fun ripping really bad movies to shreds, but I hate that I wasted so much time watching these, the ten I most disliked in the last twelve months.

Best Movies Of 2023

Best Movies Of 2023

Here’s my list of the ten movies that impressed me most in the last twelve months, regardless of platform. Most of them did not earn big numbers at the box office, but they all put a smile on my face.

Stuff Worth Reading

Stuff Worth Reading

I recommend these pieces about “The Sound Of Music,” Elon Musk’s big lie, the NY Times games department, an ill-advised remake of a Christmas movie classic, and why a proposed big media merger is such a bad idea.

You Can Wish Me A Merry Christmas

You Can Wish Me A Merry Christmas

A re-post of a piece I wrote in 2012 about why, even though I don’t celebrate the holiday, you can still wish me a Merry Christmas (and vice versa).

“American Fiction”

“American Fiction”

Here’s my rave review of a clever, funny new movie about a frustrated Black author fed up with the way the publishing world treats people who look like him.

“Maestro”

“Maestro”

Here’s my review of Bradley Cooper’s biopic of composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein and his longtime marriage to his wife, Felicia.

Busting The Bugsy Myth

Busting The Bugsy Myth

Despite the claims of Barry Levinson’s 1991 movie “Bugsy,” mobster Ben Siegel did not create the first casino in Las Vegas. In fact, it was a woman named Alice Morris.