Occasionally I have been asked if I have any advice to give to aspiring actors. I presume this is because I have been one myself for a...

Ever since early humans saw birds fly, and realized that they could not, the yearning for flight must have existed, for what? Tens of...

We named her “Ninotchka,” which quickly became “Nina,” after the character Greta Garbo played in her first comedy role, in 1939. For...

Memorial Day began early for us in 2014. After a long journey by plane, train, and auto, we arrived on the Adriatic coast, in the small...

You’re having a quiet lunch with your best friend at a charming little restaurant in your hometown, when suddenly, a passerby morphs into...

There is nothing more fakey looking than a fake stage slap, where one actor reacts as though he/she were slapped, and either the slapper...

I am a proud son of the Tennessee mountains. I was never called a “hillbilly” at all, either in a joking or a pejorative sense, nor would...

In the dark ages, when I went to high school, required classes in English Literature inevitably involved having to read at least one,...

She had her own motorcycle, a Norton, when she was sixteen years old. She could take it apart and put it back together. Her father had...