A Shroud of Thoughts

I may not have mentioned it before, but I have always been fascinated by pirates. Like many boys I read Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasur...

This week two great actreses passed on. One was Virginia Mayo, the gorgeous blonde who was equally adept at both comedy and drama. She died ...

Advertising has probably been around for as long as there have been merchants with goods to sell. In the ruins of Pompeii, archaeologists fo...

There was a time when the dime store loomed large in American pop culture. The movies Five and Ten , Alice Adams , and Come Back to the Five...

Last year, at the beginning of the television season, I stated that the word for this season was "bland." For the most part I stan...

My DVD of The 300 Spartans arrived from Amazon.Com today. I seem to recall seeing it as a child. I know I saw it a few years ago on TCM. Na...

On January 3, 2005, perhaps the greatest legend in comic books died. Will Eisner died at age 87 following quadruple bypass heart surgery in ...