Legend has it that Jeanne Eagels, the great Broadway diva, died from a heroin overdose. I say "poppycock"!
Read about Jeanne's extraordinary life and mysterious death right here:
Jeanne Eagels: Legendary Actress Died Under Mysterious Circumstances
Monday, April 26, 2010
Saul Bellow: The IRS Has Turned Us Into a Nation of Bookkeepers
"Dear Mr. President. Internal Revenue regulations will turn us into a nation of book-keepers. The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of life human history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business."
-- Moses Herzog
Read all about it!
Saul Bellow's Herzog - How the IRS Turns Us into a Nation of Bookkeepers
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Douglas Sirk & The American Dream
"There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections."
-- Douglas Sirk, Sirk on Sirk
My article, "Douglas Sirk & the American Dream: Through A Glass Darkly," is a short biography of the celebrated German-American filmmaker, who helmed such classic pictures as the remake of Imitation of Life.
Jay Gatsby & Alex-Rodriguez
My article, "What The Great Gatsby Tells Us About Alex Rodriguez & the Baseball Steroids Scandal" is must reading during this year of the National Endowment of Arts' sponsorship of The Big Read, featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic.
Gatsby & The Iceman
My article, "A Distant Mirror: What The Great Gatsby & The Iceman Cometh" Say to 21st Century America" relates how these two masterpieces of American literature still elucidate the American condition, specifically, the corruption that has always been endemic to American Society and the taproot of the nightmare that is the American Dream.
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