And speaking of different generations, I’m a new father. I have a three-month old son. One of the other reasons I agreed to do this is I’d like him to come here one day and based on everything I’ve seen from him in the first 12 weeks, I just don’t think he’s going to...
Born January 26, 1923—Anne Jeffreys. Her first role in our end of things was as a young woman on the early Forties filmTarzan’s New York Adventure. She’s Jean Le Danse (note the name) around the same time in the comedyZombies on Broadway(film geeks here — is this the earliest z...
During last night’s “A Closer Look” segment on Late Night, Seth Meyers focused on Houston’s recent vote to reject a proposed anti-discrimination law called Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance, which would’ve protected people from being discriminated at work or elsewhere for their race,...
Seth Freilich,Technical Development/Senior Editor: Seth Freilich co-owns this site and helps keep the lights on, the servers humming, and the ban hammer cocked and loaded. He's also a Senior Editor and sometime critic. Seth lives in L.A. and loves it, though a piece of his black heart...
In 1967 two freshmen met here: an engineering major from Pittsburgh named Larry Meyers and a theater major from Marblehead, Mass., named Hilary Olson. Those freshmen would go on to be my parents. They met in a poetry class. And my mother still remembers the first thing my father said to...