A loquacious little boy – talkative, voluble, communicative, expansive, garrulous, unreserved, chatty, gossipy, gossiping, informal, the gift of gab, gabby, gassy, motor-mouthed, talky, windy. — How great is this kid? — Let’s elect the intrusionary little bastard! — Wait a minute, that’s not being fair of me. — How do I know he’s a…
Our Korean professor made his point with utmost certainty: “The United States of America is a republic; meaning the supreme power is in the hands of the people, and the elected officials said people elect to serve them.” It was late 1953, or early 1954. The place was a school lecture hall on campus at…
By executive order, I hereby instruct my newly appointed Attorney General, Catherine Kalmenson, to disband the organization now known as the Internal Revenue Service with total prejudice and malice. I hereby immediately dissolve the federal agency known as The Internal Revenue Service. By executive order, I hereby establish a new American Army, to function…
–> I hate politics with a passion. The system has turned into one our Founding Fathers could not have possibly envisioned. As I grow older, the despising becomes more intense. Politicians appear to take great pride in their cultivated abilities to never answer questions directly. Ask a politician a direct question and their first response…
It was usually quiet when these gentlemen met to shake hands and to relive some moments of shared sacrifice. It was always the same – in amongst tress and seated around an oversized redwood picnic table. It began with twelve, and now the years had taken half of them away. Nevertheless, each Memorial Day remained…
Easy, there’s a person in here. With no inclination to stop, they pushed their way past. My mind’s eye: “MME” There’s a person in here. Who cares anyway? No need to look inside. Judgment is easy when derived by way of the superficial imprint of one’s human appearance. Calabasas where lifestyles are those most only…
(Be Yourself) The toughest assignment for an actor is to remain natural. As a young director, I was warned by mentors to try to avoid asking actors to be themselves. I was told that many actors haven’t a clue as to who or what they really are. In fact, I was told that many actors…
No one loved American comic heroes more than our earliest immigrants. Across the board, almost without exception, the neighborhoods of our new Americans fell in love with the bigger-than-life characters who single-handedly were there, on this good earth, for the sole purpose of protecting them. CIRCA 1930 At a time when little or nothing was…
Humbly forwarded without your request, a simple opinion of the “what’s missing in today’s society” and perhaps, also the “what’s missing in the new flick 42.” I haven’t seen the movie yet, but God forgive me I’ve become one of the things I dislike most, a critic. The only difference between me and the other…
Even non-coffee drinkers will admit to enjoying the first smell of coffee as it wafts its way to wherever they happen to be. Think about it, when have you ever heard someone complain about the awful aroma of that stinking dark black stuff? Walk into any recording studio early in the morning and the usual…