A Shroud of Thoughts

According to the calendar, the Sixties began on 1 January 1961. If one is looking for the date when the Sixties really began, that day wh...

Sadly, it seems that nine times out of ten that I write about a social network site, it is complaining about Facebook. Of course, in my defe...

Here is some news for my fellow classic film buffs. Kristina of the Speakeasy blog and Stephen aka Classic Movie Man are co-hosting a blogat...

Legendary actor Herbert Lom died today at the age of 95. He appeared in such films as The Ladykillers (1955), The Phantom of the Opera (...

Legendary crooner Andy Williams died on 25 September 2012 at the age of 84. The cause was bladder cancer. Andy Williams was born on 3 De...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of my favourite novels. Indeed, I think it could well be the greatest novel of the 20th Ce...

The past many years I have not watched the Emmy Awards. The simple fact is that they are scheduled in a bad time, on Sunday night when the c...