Thirty-six years ago today, my mother gave birth to me after what I’m sure was seventy-two straight hours of painful labor (I haven’t heard the story in years, but I’m sure the number of hours goes up every time she tells someone).
One thing I’ve noticed is that the more birthdays I have, the less I [...]
I just read that the family of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Josh Hancock, who was killed last month when his SUV crashed into the back of a tow truck, is suing just about everyone involved in the incident, despite the fact that Hancock was driving drunk at the time of the accident.
To quickly recap: Hancock [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I was scheduled to interview Gene Simmons for Radar, mostly talking about his reality show on A&E. The interview was scheduled for a Monday at 3 PM. The night before, I had gone out for dinner and got back at around 9:30. Right before 10 PM, I heard the phone [...]
Most people who know me know that I’m not an idiot when it comes to computers. Far from it, in fact; before I decided to take on the quixotic task of making a living with my writing, I was an Information Technology wage slave, working for a certain company that will remain nameless for the [...]
I am not shy to say that despite the fact that I’m a straight male from New Jersey, I’ve always been a fan of Gilmore Girls. I started watching the show in season two, mainly because I had an unyielding crush on Lauren Graham and enjoyed watching her in whatever failing TV show she was [...]
In July 1986, I, like many Jewish teenagers in the suburban New Jersey and Westchester County — including, I found out 20 years later, a current friend of mine — took a series of “teen tour” trips, conducted by a company called Barron Tours. During those tours, I remember going to see Top Gun, listening [...]
One of my favorite things to do as a writer is to speak to people whose work I admire and enjoy. But then, it’s usually followed by one of my least favorite things to do: transcribing the recording I made of the interview.
I don’t like taking notes during an interview so I can concentrate on [...]
For a number of reasons, I didn’t get to as many movies at the Tribeca Film Festival as I wanted to. For instance, I couldn’t get in to see either The King of Kong, a documentary about a man who sets out to set the world record high score on Donkey Kong, or Autism: The [...]
Here are two HuffPost reviews I wrote about movies I saw at the Tribeca Film Festival:
Review of Lovesickness, a Puerto Rican movie about three painful but funny love triangles (the most recognizable star in the movie is Luis Guzman).
Review of Chasing 3000, a sweet family film that chronicles two brothers’ road trip from LA to [...]
Busy weekend for me, as I saw four… count ‘em… four movies at Tribeca this past weekend (three of them yesterday alone). Reviews of two of the four movies are already up on HuffPost:
Review of Jamie Kennedy’s documentary Heckler.
Review of the crime drama West 32nd, that explores the Korean underworld in New York City.
You can [...]
