“Oh, E-lea-nah Fahhhr-quahar,” the man driving said, letting the syllables of the mythical woman’s name become drawn out and dreamy, as they escaped his lips. “What ever happened to Elena Farquahar?” That classical sculpture of the beautiful woman on the proverbial pedestal shattered...
Natalie Wood, the serious little girl with the soulful brown eyes, commanded the big screen as the prematurely jaded Susan Walker in the 1947 classic Christmas movie, "Miracle on 34th Street." As a teenager and young adult, Wood went on to star in "Splendor in the Grass," "Rebel Without...
That’s what happened to me as a 12-year-old sick with mono. (The kissing disease. I rule.) I had to get regular bloodwork, but my body and mind weren’t having it. Even lying down so I wouldn’t topple over, I got woozy when the nurse drew blood. More than once she had to...
He was describing, as all young poets are for ever describing, nature, and in order to match the shade of green precisely he looked (and here he showed more audacity than most) at the thing itself, which happened to be a laurel bush growing beneath the window. After that, of course, ...