Facts about my neighborhood, #5

It’s interesting, isn’t it, how Bob Hope (who turns 100 today) came to be associated so firmly with the song “Thanks for the Memory” – and in turn, the song took on a meaning unlike it had  [more...]

I was just watching a documentary biography of Elizabeth Taylor on “Great Performances,” which said flat-out that James Dean was gay. Is this now an accepted fact? I had no idea that there was some kind of  [more...]

This is the sort of thing that you often think never could happen in our “civilized” country. Texas Crowd Kills Man After Car Hits Kid Wednesday, June 20, 2007 Austin, Texas (AP) — A crowd attacked and  [more...]