Irrefutable and adorable don’t often go hand in hand. Nor do we think of David and Goliath as embodied by the same man. Chris Christie’s most recent and, as far as I know, most publicized appearance, the brief but telling
The awe-inspiring convergences of eternally American symbols and imagery in the seemingly sudden appearance of Herman Cain at the CPAC meeting?! This is beyond God’s call for “Check!” to the American Progressives. Herman Cain is God’s call of “Check-Mate!” Pair
I greeted Ronald Reagan’s counter-revolutionary ascent to the White House while I was still a Liberal. An embarrassing confession, I know. However, Reagan himself had, at one time, been a Liberal himself. On June 5th, 2004, this editorial by Ronald
The Simones, as I call them. No, this is not a French rock duet. Simone Signoret and Simone Weil. If you’ve only read The Ordinary Miracle II, you know of my romantically obsessive love for Simone Signoret. You may not
With Dr. Evil: …and his Mini-Me’s: …plus their Russian Wolfhound: George Soros now rules over half of the Earth: Eurasia, North America and, with his foot in Brazil, a large hunk of South America. With a Sorosian Barack Obama running
How serendipitous when a latter day Boswell like myself finds his Jonson! No, not that kind of “Johnson” … but a Samuel Johnson whose first name is Paul. I’d never heard of him till today … Paul Johnson, I mean.
“The people of the orient don’t think the same way about human life as we do.” That’s what was fed me in the Fifties when Red China was barely in the rear view mirror of my father’s car. I hadn’t
Remember the shot heard ’round the world? Another shot was fired in the Middle East a year ago and the echoes to that shot are exploding like wildfire. That intensely patriotic shot forced an extraordinary and extraordinarily American Army officer
Please listen to this seven-year-old! Divine. Undeniably miraculous that a child, like a female, singing, Biblical David, should arrive with that much inborn courage, wisdom and sensitivity! “It felt great,” Rhema Marvanne, said about making her theatrical debut. “It felt
Into my eye line he walks, like Gary Cooper … or Sidney Poitier … onto the dusty main street of High Noon! And in America it is, indeed, approaching High Noon. Colonel Allen West. My awareness of him is a
Apparently both Red China and North Korea appear to be – and I stress the word appear – as unreasonable with President Obama as Obama has become blatantly unreasonable with the American people. Some might call it, in the case
It is with great satisfaction yet hoped-for humility that I feel myself obliged to introduce to BIG HOLLYWOOD a flowering expert on ZOMBIES. His visit here is, perhaps, not entirely of his own free will. Life and art, ahhhhh, art
When will Hollywood even begin tell the true story about the Russian Revolution, Lenin, Stalin and its subsequently more successful imitators such as Mao Zedong and Kim Jong Il? Obviously some hopefuls for similar success, George Soros, Barack Obama –
Now don’t get me wrong! I’m aware of my knee-jerk reactions to almost anything coming out of the Washington Post or the New York Times. I usually say to myself, “I told you so.” But this new series?! Investigative reports
If I remember correctly, George Buchner’s 19th Century play, Danton’s Death, actually opened The Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College. Though my memories are now understandably vague, I was actually in that production. Why my amnesia is understandable would necessitate a
The Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, promised Poland defense missiles in 2015?! Just how naive does Hillary Clinton think the Polish people are? Or, on the other hand, just how naive is the Secretary of State to make a promise
My friend, Jim Kouri, vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, writes a wide-ranging, daily column and frequently breaks news from his extensive and fully informed sources. Here, in particular, is one such: “ObamaCare-for-prosthetic-medical-devices.” He broke this news
Time Magazine of 1961 had its own, surprisingly spiritual commentary and conclusions to make about some hefty Old Testament offerings on Broadway: Archibald MacLeish’s J.B. and Paddy Chayefsky’s Gideon. Two of the world’s greatest theater directors, Sir Tyrone Guthrie and
I have, for weeks, had a mercifully short but accurate metaphor to deliver as an editorial titled America As Job. However, my last two columns had to take precedence over America As Job. Recent headlines demanded I postpone any Biblical
The Great Catholic Scandal! Hmmm … does this really have to do with child abuse or, to use the Reagan perspective, are these arrests and possibly further imprisonments of high level Catholic authorities “bargaining chips” to convince the Catholic Church
I must say, writing for Big Hollywood has made me face the most belligerently intelligent among my readers, many of whom refuse to believe that murder is murder. Even those who are willing to admit that abortion does end a
My little series of articles on Marlon’s Mao posed the possibility that if Marlon Brando had lived longer he would have inevitably been cast as Mao Zedong. The crème de la crème of the Hollywood Left would have unquestionably flocked
Made on the heels of the more successful Mildred Pierce and based upon a similar but, in this case, true life story of Virginia Hill and Bugsy Siegel, The Damned Don’t Cry may, in my opinion, completely mirror the foundations
Lady Gaga’s Alejandro is mesmerizing in its decadence, shamelessly in debt to Christopher Isherwood’s Cabaret, Rudolf Valentino, any number of tales about Latin Lovers, Alexander the Great and, finally, that unbeatably hypnotic premonition: the triumphal return of Nazism. Gaga’s eternal
A sports film that is almost entirely about losers?! About that oft forgotten and abandoned piece of real estate called Indiana?! It’s shot in a landscape-portrait, documentary style that memorializes a smaller than small town high school, basketball team?! A
The Best Years of Our Lives was on TCM today. Even when the Good Guys and Bad Guys all seemed incontestably defined, World War II still created a certain amount of what we now call “post-traumatic stress” … and, of
This is what a commenter offers to a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Make Our Garden Grow: “It’s so beautiful, it makes my heart want to explode.” I met Leonard Bernstein only once, at a Christmas concert in the Cathedral of
Ogden Nash My son Matthew wasn’t all that impressed by the Ogden Nash poem, Roundabout. Aside from Nash’s slapstick turn on human divinity: You may think of yourself as an immortal creature But you’re just a cartoon Between a double
The Obama White House, so filled with Harvard graduates, is obviously more interested in teaching than in learning. “Teachable moments,” remember? Why the Obama Nation should retain so many slow-learners, spoiled brats refusing to recognize, amidst their Marxist Mania, the
Lena Horne! 92!! And we always thought she’d be around with us forever. Oh, well … there are always her recordings, my favorite of which contains a poem very few of us know. It was written by Ogden Nash. “An
It is perhaps a radical view of the Sphinx and its mystery, but if the impenetrable reality is a human being, two Hollywood legends that qualify as our unanswered questions are Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich. Beginning with Ms. Monroe,
Why would a known, highly applauded, and much-admired star like Tom Hanks go out of his way to harm himself and therefore stain his product, the mini-series for television, Pacific? Why would he toss off an incendiary crack about racism
The other night I saw Ship of Fools again. Today, as what I hopefully trust is evidence of the power within Oscar Werner’s acting, I feel as tired as that great actor’s character feels near the end of the film.
Pump this up, please: And I live in Canada. The reason I’m here is that I saw such American arrogance being born in the Clinton Administration with Janet Reno’s assaults upon violence on television. They were as ominously totalitarian as
For me the human being is a miracle. For Progressive Americans, however, because of the particularly Progressive Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade Decision of 1973, the human being has become less than ordinary. The human being is now an easily
It was a small bar and restaurant in the West Village of Manhattan … and, while you read this, do me a favor and pump up this performance of The Nearness of You by the infinitely soulful and dangerously loving
L. Arnold Weissberger! I am very proud to say that he had been the first and unquestionably finest “representative” within my entire career. I hesitate to use the title of his profession … lawyer … since, indeed, its implications are,
Marlon Brando once visited the Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau, to request money for a film about the First Nations that he and Abby Mann were working on. Following the very unfruitful meeting with Trudeau, Brando declared,”That’s the most