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Regina: Hey, you know that guy with the…face? The rat face? From that movie?
Sarah: Jan-Michael Vincent?
Regina: No, no — that guy. The blond rat-faced guy?
Sarah: Big tall blond rat-faced guy, or little scrawny blond rat-faced …

It’s year-in-review time in the publishing world, the hallowed season during which print journalists forgo researching and developing actual features in favor of throwing together lists of The Stories That Touched Our Hearts, thereby freeing …

I recently received a rather acidic email from a reader, demanding to know how I could “review” the AFI’s 100 Greatest Movies if I hadn’t seen half the films on the list. Well, I’ll tell …

I suppose I could have just not gone to Star Wars Episode Two: Attack of the Clones, but really, the idea never occurred to me. Not see Episode Two? Not an option. I have an …

A long time ago, in the days of underage drinking and roses, Maria José and The Resident Alien and I used to hang out with an annoying group of guys, partly because The Resident Alien …

In college, we spent a lot of time on the theoretical. Part of that derived from our classes — although, if I recall correctly, I greeted my PHI 101 preceptor’s question about the possibility that …

As Wing Chun pointed out on Fametracker last week, Tom Cruise is the biggest movie star in the world right now. Everyone in the English-speaking world recognizes his face; everyone in the English-speaking world can …

Yearbook pages followed a strict blueprint at my high school. Mrs. McPherson gave us a square of blue graph paper, and a couple of weeks later we brought it back to her, a professional photo …

A.I. doesn’t work. It can; it could. For reasons I can’t quite put my finger on, I very much wanted it to. But in the end, it just doesn’t. Why not?
Let’s look at the accusations …

Last night — the night of the first truly warm day of spring — I couldn’t get to sleep. That happens to me a lot on Sunday nights. I settle into bed with a book, …