Are you religious?” alcoholic rich kid Jay asks high-achieving Ellie. “Spiritual,” she replies. JAY: So you go to yoga twice a week—? ELLIE: Essentially. JAY: Yeah see that’s garbage. ELLIE: It’s better than nothing. JAY: No, it is nothing. ELLIE: Probably. Matthew Gasda, in whose . . . . Continue Reading »
Gaudete Sunday reminds us that the Lord is not far away, and his grace already fills us with a share in the eternal joy we so eagerly seek. Continue Reading »
Are you bored? In need of distraction? Hungry for a morsel of entertainment? Let’s review pop culture’s offerings. Over at the smorgasbord of TV now available on every streaming service and device, there’s A Wilderness of Errors, a documentary series about Jeffrey MacDonald, the army . . . . Continue Reading »
I am the last living blacklisted Hollywood writer. I can’t prove this any more than I could legally prove my blacklisting at the time. (The blacklist, after all, was an illegal conspiracy subject to lawsuits.) I am reasonably certain about this claim because I knew the Hollywood writers in . . . . Continue Reading »
The miniseries Comrade Detective ridicules the buddy cop genre, communist propaganda, and communism itself. Continue Reading »
As cities vie to be home to Amazon's second headquarters, we might keep in mind the lessons of Booth Tarkington's novel The Magnificent Ambersons. Continue Reading »
Why does our culture allot special importance to the political views of NFL players? It is a sign of modern society's absurdity. Continue Reading »
In the landscape of prestige television, Twin Peaks: The Return detonates a bomb, ending with confused identities, a tortured scream, and terrible silence. Continue Reading »
If Only…A Love Story is a new play by Thomas Klingenstein, now playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. Continue Reading »
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