Old Hollywood (As If You Care)

December 31, 2023: I’m back (not that you were waiting) with another list of books on Old Hollywood. Presented alphabetically …

Hey Look! It’s Cuddles!

December 6, 2023: In 1953’s Small Town Girl, a character played by Hungarian-born S. Z. “Cuddles” Sakall (1883-1955) frets about …

August 17, 2023: Vogue.com kindly just posted a shortened version of a piece I wrote in defense of the Steves …

April 28, 2023: Don’t be scared. Claire Dederer has a really aces new book out called Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma …

March 30, 2023: Salon has just posted (see here) my essay “Look at him: Why can’t straight guys acknowledge male …

February 26, 2023: Actually, I don’t mean that Edward. Dear Edward is an Apple TV+ show that I write about …

February 17, 2023: No, she doesn’t (although of course she’s been there). But the Instituto Mexicano de la Radio (Mexico’s …

December 31, 2022: I know you don’t care, and I don’t care that you don’t care. I’m still going to …

November 20, 2022: This picture of Tom Jones? It will make sense if you watch Prime Video’s Mammals. While you’re …

August 13, 2022: So…Salon just posted “Monogamy, without the ‘-ish’: A humble and definitely not cool defense of the closed relationship” (see …