I 've always enjoyed Alfred Hitchcock's shows on television.  When I was younger, I found them sinister and spooky; watching them on...

H ow do the lyrics to the song go? " Lovely to look at,/Delightful to know "? That, even more than "Here She Is," is w...

I  thought I would try a little experiment this week.  I'm not saying it's going to last all year, but the TV listings I've incl...

I f you want a quick but trenchant history of politics in the later half of the twentieth century, you could do worse than to look at two pi...

H appy New Year, everyone! It's the first day of 2015, the fifth year of this blog, and while it's a day when everything is new, the...