January 25, 2012–It doesn’t take much to these days to get labeled a “provocateur.” Back in the good old days, you had to really work to cause a sensation — or at the very least, dance on TV with… Read the rest…
July 5, 2011–In an opening scene of “Napoleon Dynamite,” a 2004 film highlighting teenage perils and triumphs in a middle-of-nowhere Idaho town, the title character, a tall, gawky ostrich of a kid, disconsolately boards a school bus. He slumps into… Read the rest…
May 19, 2011–Personal political preferences can be a mysterious thing. Are progressives simply born that way, springing forth fully formed like Athena from Zeus’s head, thoughts of social justice and monorails imprinted on their psyches? Or are they slowly molded,… Read the rest…
March 23, 2011 - Old School, a cinematic classic starring Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughan, and Luke Wilson, tells the story of three buddies who decide to launch a fraternity – and launch they do, despite the fact that they’re each… Read the rest…
June 27, 2008 —Fans of the movie Caddyshack will remember the scene: Danny Noonan, an earnest, working-class caddy at a snooty country club, is doing his best to butter up Judge Smails, one of the club’s more reprehensible members. Petty,… Read the rest…
What inspired you to write “Save the Males?”
Boys. Men. Specifically, mine. My father raised me after my mother died when I was three. I then had a baby boy and helped raise two stepsons. So my experience of the… Read the rest…
June 9, 2008 —My, how times have changed. Just three months ago, HBO Films was gaining accolades for its newly released John Adams, a seven-part miniseries on America’s second president and his history-making role in a world-changing political revolution. Three months… Read the rest…
