My hometown was in the news this past week, when Florida governor Ron DeSantis evidently arranged to lure under false pretenses newly...

The great author and historian David McCullough has died. He was a longtime West Tisbury resident, so when we read one of his books in...

This is a picture of my stepdad, Herb Putnam, who we lost to pancreatic cancer in 2008. (He sort of looked like Sam Neill.) We miss him...

We’re back in L.A. after two weeks visiting family on Martha’s Vineyard and Evanston, Illinois. For now I am busy uploading a huge...

Amin Matalqa is a director whose debut feature, Captain Abu Raed (2007), was the first film produced in Jordan in 50 years, and won the...

Here’s a short biographical video I made in a desperate bid to promote myself. I made fun of a few things, but mostly of myself. My mom...

Writing about John Williams’ 90th birthday, and then the current (boxed) state of my soundtrack collection, reminded me of my earliest...

Above: Spielberg and Lucas with R2-D2. That is not my dad. I was reminded of this story earlier this week while participating in a...

I want to give a shout-out today to one of my favorite people, John(ny) Bender, and one of my favorite Facebook groups, The Retro Euro...

Last night I picked up dinner from a very good Indian restaurant here in South Pasadena, Radhika—which happens to be across the street...

I guess this is as good a time as any to see if anybody wants to watch these silly home movies that my brothers and I made circa 1989–91....

This is about Boston sports, so I know the audience will be limited. Jerry Remy died last Saturday after a long battle with lung cancer....

Here is the fundamental conflict in being an entertainment journalist: You can have honesty. You can have access. But you can’t have...

Here, briefly, is the story of my most memorable childhood trip aboard the Steamship Authority’s crummiest boat, the M.V. Uncatena. This...

Above: the chair (the white glider) where I sat and watched the news on 9–11. I once had an Internet date with a young woman who dabbled...

Writing a blog on what I guess will be a daily basis reminds me of the first time I tried “daily programming”—in elementary school, I...

I’ve added an “About Me” page to the site, with rapid-fire smart-aleck remarks. The above pic: this is a drawing I made of Jay...