Knox Burger was my first agent. I was twenty-five when I first met him, holding down the only actual "job" I ever had, as a fairly inept press agent for United Artists, where I had succeeded another amateur flak named Jonathan Demme. I had written a novella called Tex X,...

Hats off to Justice Clarence Thomas for his courageous stand on behalf of school officials' right to strip teenagers naked in an effort to find prescription pills. This great man has more than justified George H.W. Bush's faith in his character, dignity, and wisdom. Taking a position at odds with...

Am I the only person who can't stop thinking of Boss Jim Gettys in "Citizen Kane?" You know the scene: Kane is at the top of the stairs, standing in front of the love nest apartment he shared with Susan Alexander, screaming down at Boss Jim as he and Emily...

The emergence of Obama and consequent submergence of Senator Clinton brings to mind Jack Kennedy's 1960 primary beat-down of Hubert H. Humphrey. Hubert had been the faithful liberal shepherd for so long and then here came this force -- this gorgeous athletic rich kid with that tan and those teeth...

Okay, so Iran is not currently developing nukes. Looks bad for our intelligence services, doesn't it, but that's no shocker, am I right? We sort of take that for the granted. Here's what the Iran news really does, however; it knocks Rudy Giuliani right out of the race.

Think about...