“Home Again” feels just like a lot of Nancy Meyers movies (“The Intern,” “It’s Complicated,” “Something’s Gotta Give”). That’s because she produced it, and her daughter Hallie Meyers-Shyer wrote and directed it, fully inspired by her mother’s formula: cast a likable well-known actress, put her in upper-class surroundings, and then get her involved in a […]
Yesterday, I reviewed “Loving,” a movie about a couple whose case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled that interracial marriage could not be outlawed anywhere in the United States. It reminded me of a column I wrote three years ago about the battle we had in that same state that, while never a federal […]
I’ve been thinking about eggs since hearing McDonald’s announce that it will now serve breakfast all day. When I worked at the Golden Arches in 1976, breakfast seemed like the healthiest thing the restaurant offered. We used real eggs to make McMuffins and scrambled eggs, and the pancake mix wasn’t much different than the powdered […]
I spent the last week visiting my daughter and mother in New York City, eating real pizza and real bagels, trying a couple of vegan restaurants at my daughter’s behest, taking in a couple of college classes with her, and going to see two big Broadway shows, “Beautiful” and “It’s Only A Play.” The former […]
From my Twitter feed… Thought bubble over Yoko Ono’s head during tonight’s CBS Beatles tribute show: “This is way too melodic! It needs more atonal screeching.” My favorite part of the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony was the salute to Anatevka. Math Is Hard: I told the clerk at Einstein’s bagels I would like a half-dozen. […]
When we moved to Virginia in 1986 so I could host a morning show on WCXR/Washington, we didn’t have a place to live and Martha didn’t have a job yet. The station put us up in a hotel for a couple of weeks, and while I went to work, she went to find a nice […]
My daughter, who was born in Virginia and grew up in Missouri, is in her first year of college in New York. She is enjoying both the university experience and the city at large — so much so that, upon returning to her dorm this weekend to start her second semester, she composed the following, […]
This is a diary of my trip across the US with my daughter to start her freshman year at college in New York — and my return trip, too. Read all the entries here. I’ve gotten us up early today (5:30am) so we can finish our last 7-hour stretch before afternoon rush hour hits New York. […]
Proving yet again that there’s a subset of Americans who refuse to accept personal responsibility for their own lives, there’s a new service that turns off your cell phone when you drive. As Sam Grobart reports in the NY Times, the service uses the phone’s GPS sensors to determine whether you’re at driving speeds, and […]
If you had walked into the East Terminal at Lambert Airport this morning, you wouldn’t have believed we’re in a recession. I was there to catch a 7am flight to Vegas, where I’ll play in a couple of tournaments this weekend. Normally, if I get there by 6am, I can breeze through, get a bagel […]