Really? Sheesh. I can’t say I was ever a huge Whitney Houston fan, but she definitely first hit during some very formative years of mine. She was one of the first women I ever looked at and thought “how could anyone be that good-looking?” (That was probably the video for “How Will I Know?”) Nancy, … Read more
Prolific and Emmy award-winning actor Ben Gazzara died this morning. He was 81. The New York Times article—which I somehow was able to read an hour or so ago but which is now demanding login credentials, therefore preventing me from linking to it— disingenuously and snobbishly avoids any mention of what is surely Gazzara’s greatest … Read more
Our longtime friend Alex is an architect. As systematic as he is, he may be better suited to his occupation than anyone else we know. So six or seven years ago, we were visiting over a beer, and he was telling me about his Saturday morning. He had a backyard construction project going, and he … Read more