MJJC: In your memoir you say, "I could write page after page of simple acts of kindness I have seen firsthand." Can you remember a few? It's always warms fans' hearts to hear such stories. Brad Sundberg: I already mentioned the Make-A-Wish visits on the ranch, but we also had ...
Photo: Fred Conrad Author of threeNew York Timesbestsellers,Michael Grossis recognized as one of America’s most provocative writers —“a premier chronicler of the rich,” in the words ofGay Talese. The late Dominick Dunne called his books “social history at its finest”. His specialty, de...
Michael Gross The Italian government has concludedan agreementfor the return of 40 antiquities from the Getty museum in Los Angeles, the latest coup in its crusade to recover what it deems Italy’s cultural patrimony. The Metropolitan Museum made a similar deal last year. The blog Looting Histor...
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a page of banner ads for porn purveyors who paid sex.com to send surfers their way. he also posted articles such as “adventures in anal erotica,” by stephen m. cohen. finally furious that his domain was enriching cohen, kremen found a young lawyer who agreed, in 1998, to file suit...
I utterly abandoned poetry competitions, although I previously wrote funny verse (as opposed to what I consider actual or authentic poetry) about poetry competitions in the past, it got about 20,000 page views on my previous, spammed to death, old Drupel version of this website.(Which you ...
It’s the same book that a New York Times reviewer called “sharp-clawed [yet…] honestly admiring,” but it’s been updated with a new Afterword. In the original, “Gross summed up Lauren by saying that the things which made him a success like obsessiveness and control were ‘negative ...
RIP Patty Raynes The late Patty Raynes, who died this week, plays a small part in my bookUnreal Estate: Money, Ambition and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles.But her father, Marvin Davis, is and was as oversized a character—physically and in American social and business life—as the L...
and ideas and to collect the ephemera that I gather along the way. What I found is that while I am sitting somewhere creating artwork to go on a page of my journal, my mind is recording everything around me, the people I meet, the conversations I have, what else I observe, and my...
Centurion Michael Clarke played a true captain’s innings as Australia shrugged off another umpiring controversy to produce an Ashes fightback and rack up 303 for three on the first day of the third test on Thursday. The unflappable Clarke was 125 not out from 208 balls at the close after ...