Here is a letter to me from Rob Morris, just back from a recent trip on behalf of his child trafficking rescue organization, Love 146.

My interview with Rob is podcasting on my WNYC show, "Here's The Thing," beginning Monday.

Dear Alec,

Just got in from my trip...

People posting here pose the question, "Why do I believe I need to be treated differently from other passengers?"

My answer is "I don't." So, why was everyone else on that flight using a phone and I was the only one hectored about that? Twice.

Sometimes one can...

First off, I would like to apologize to the other passengers onboard the American Airlines flight that I was thrown off of yesterday. It was never my intention to inconvenience anyone with my "issue" with a certain flight attendant.

I suppose a part of my frustration lay with the fact...

Have you seen Hard Times: Lost on Long Island? The film won the Audience Award/Best Documentary at the Hamptons International Film Festival in October. The documentary follows a group of unemployed men and women, ranging in age from their late thirties into their sixties, who are looking for work while...

Georgia's decision to go forward with the execution of Troy Davis in the face of an international outcry calling for time, clarity and justice has, once again, galvanized anti-death penalty consciousness here at home. What passes for fairness in parts of this country, and make no mistake, we're talking about...

In the immediate wake of the execution of Troy Davis in Georgia last week, I got into a rather unpleasant spitting contest with certain pro-death penalty advocates and fringe conservative media performers (some of whom I had never heard of right up to the moment they spit on me). I...

I wanted to take the opportunity to clarify something regarding last night's Emmy broadcast.

I did not attend the Emmys due to a long-standing commitment to Tony and Susan Bennett's Exploring the Arts benefit, which I had agreed to host several months ago. In the intervening time, the Emmy telecast...

I believe what has been lost since 9/11 is any real discussion of peace as a component of our foreign policy. You almost never hear anyone talk about peace now. I understand that there are malignant forces who want not only to be out from under what they perceive as...

The 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks is in just three days. Much has happened in this country since that Tuesday morning in 2001. Tonight (Thursday), I will moderate a discussion about the political and cultural after-effects of 9/11 for New York Public Theatre's Public Forum program. The evening...

Although it was perhaps a tepid August news cycle that prompted Diane Cardwell to circle back for another view of my comments to Sarah Maslin Nir, I was bewildered by the thrust of Cardwell's piece in The New York Times. The value of specific Central Park...

Working here in Rome the last two weeks has been a welcome break from the heat back home in New York, not to mention the sound of alarms going off throughout the U.S. media about the impending debt ceiling debacle. Reading websites and blogs about the possibility of the U.S....

All of my career, I have had one great insecurity. One unfulfilled wish. To be able to sing in a Broadway show.

When I have watched and admired people who can sing, like Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Victor Garber, Mandy Patinkin, Michael Cerveris, Jason Danieley, Julie Andrews, Brian Stokes Mitchell,...

My friend Morgan Rank owned an art gallery in East Hampton several years ago. He moved to Italy, living in the quiet countryside there for nearly a decade. We had lost touch and then, at an art event in New York, someone approached me and said, "Morgan is back." I...

Twitter, the ultimate form of social networking in this ADHD world of ours, is not without its pluses. But at times, I sense some (myself included) are not quite prepared for the rapid fire, press conference-like exchange of opinion and lame repartee that can, by turns, overwhelm that particular site....

Saturday evening, April 23th. Guild Hall, East Hampton.
A benefit for The Retreat (for Domestic Violence Services). A reading of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, starring Julie White, Blythe Danner and Brooke Shields.
You'd expect Julie to kill this and she does. Few actresses alive today can...

The other week was National Arts Advocacy week in Washington, D.C. Officially, Tuesday April 5 was Arts Advocacy Day, but it was so action-packed it took the whole week. The time period was a complex one in the nation's capital; a government shutdown was looming, and endless bickering threatened reasonable...

I'd like to remember three people who passed recently that I admired greatly in the motion picture and television business.

Elizabeth Taylor was an inspiring actress. Currently, most actresses want to be models (and models often want to act). The emphasis on perfecting female beauty, if...

Gosh.

I want to take the opportunity to state that although my days on network TV may be numbered, I hope 30 Rock goes on forever. Or at least as long as everyone involved desires.

Next year hopefully won't be the last. Kenneth can run the network. Jenna will get...

Fascinating and heartbreaking how the Japanese civilian population, once again, has been called upon to teach us a harsh lesson about nuclear energy.

In the past few decades, more details have emerged about the development and deployment of the nuclear weapons dropped on Japan during World War II. Best-selling books...

I read in the paper today that Conan O'Brien's documentary is out this weekend. The one that chronicles the purportedly healing journey/concert tour he went on after his messy divorce from NBC. I also read that Charlie Sheen is suing Warner Brothers for $100 million and...