The 61st annual Tony awards will be broadcast on CBS on June 10. Once again, it won't be much of a TV show -- too long, too inside, too many awards and dull speeches -- and once again, I will pay it far too much attention.

This year, according...

Forbes Inc. has announced that it's shutting down American Heritage, and I sure am sad to hear that. I am sad not least because the magazine's quarterly spinoff, American Heritage of Invention and Technology, published my first real piece of writing in 1992, at the monstrous length of about 8,000...