Popular Culture
The Willises are dead
I hate to be the one to break it to you, in case I am. Helen (Roxie Roker) has actually been gone for quite some time. She died of breast cancer in 1995. And did you know she’s Lenny Kravitz’s mother? Tom (Franklin Cover) died last year of pneumonia. His final credit seems to have … Read more
Playboy redux
I mentioned three months ago that I had subscribed to Playboy, citing fond college memories of it, the fact that it’s almost free to subscribe (about $1.13 a month for two years), and that Lea didn’t mind. I’ve now gotten enough of a sustained taste of it to offer informed impressions. The pictorials are boring. … Read more