of-life biopic. Everything in the movie feels as slightly left of center as any episode ofMr. Rogers’ Neighborhoodever did, acknowledging the program’s twee sensibilities and refracting the show’s heightened sense of “make believe” wonder as a metaphorical context for the tiny cruelties ...
Often compared to Mark Twain and Will Rogers, this six-foot tall Texan used her razor-sharp wit to speak truth to power while giving a voice to those who didn’t have one. Calling out corrupt politicians who were backed by corporate bosses was great sport for Molly, and many of her ...
Cy Young wasn’t first ballot- largely because the original voting structure and the rules regarding them were poorly so poorly laid out- but neither was Eddie Collins or Rogers Hornsby or Pete Alexander or Joe DiMaggio or Eddie Matthews or Yogi Berra; yet somehow Lou Brock, Tony Gwynn and...
Robert Scheer, a Times staff writer whose collection of essays, "Thinking Tunafish, Talking Death," will be published by Hill and Wang this fall, has written extensively about the Strategic Defense Initiative. IN THE DUSTY town of Livermore, nestled in the Amador Valley, where cows compete wit...