Ilene Angel

I won't beat around the bush. I think that it is monumentally historic that the first black president came out (pun intended) in favor of gay marriage. I think it is Rosa Parks historic.

While President Obama's statement doesn't change anything legislatively, and it realistically will take some time for...

When I first heard that Rita Wilson was recording a CD, I thought it really should have been enough to be a beautiful and successful actress and producer, not to mention being married to Tom Hanks. I mean, how much does one girl want? And besides, I'm kind of a...

It is no small feat to go from having a kernel of an idea in your head to watching that idea play out in front of an electrified audience who are laughing, crying, cheering and leaving a theatre feeling happy, connected, and understood. This is exactly what Sue Fabisch did...

For those of us who view politics as sport, yesterday's primary results promise that there's no end in sight to this game, at least not any time soon. Ten states cast ballots for their Republican favorite, and the conclusion at the end of the day: there is no favorite.

Yes,...

There was animated scribbling, petulant sneers, verbal scuffles, name calling, bold accusations and seemingly indignant denials of the bold accusations. Though the same thing could be said of, say, a junior high school homeroom class, tonight I am referring to the most recent of Republican debates to help the American...

There is a picture that CNN has shown repeatedly tonight of Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Liza Minelli. It seems unfathomable to me that three out of four of them are now gone. Sure, there was always the underlying gnawing feeling that lives fraught with drug use could...

It's odd how things work out. While Ali Wentworth was getting engaged to a Jewish comedy writer in a castle in Ireland, I was trying to meet her then-still-single future husband, George Stephanopoulos. So it was with a tinge of trepidation that I picked up her new memoir, Ali in...

I admit it. I was hoping the president would open by serenading us with a reprise of "Let's Stay Together" at the State of the Union last night, but alas, it felt more like "You and Me Against the World."

Yes, tonight I got a chance to catch a glimpse...

One day he's baking cupcakes with Elmo. The next he's moderating the Republican debate. Truth be told, I'm not sure those two things are entirely disparate. What I do know is that Mr. Stephanopoulos provided not only the most contentious moment of Saturday night's debate, but also the most entertaining.

Everyone has their "tell." In poker, that refers to the thing you do that gives away your hand. It could be as minor as a finger tap or throat clearing, but it reveals what you are trying to keep hidden. I'd suggest that in the large scale poker game we...

Once, just once I would like a public servant who gets caught in an affair, or a flirtation, or in any kind of compromising but not illegal situation to look us straight in the eye right from the get-go and say, "Yup, I did it." Oh, I know, it's not...

I woke up thinking about Kevin Costner. No, not in that way. I was thinking about how fortunate we all might be because we went to see his movies and made him a chunk of change by doing so. Strange thing to say about an actor I've never really felt...

Our democracy as we knew it ended yesterday when in a stunning ruling, the Supreme Court annihilated federal legislation dating back to 1947 that restricted corporate spending in political campaigns.

Justices in favor of the ruling cited the First Amendment as their grounds. So I, being the curious type, decided...

It's not the first we've seen of President Obama on health care reform, and it definitely won't be the last. In a Sunday morning media blitz, the president answered questions in his familiar measured and reasonable manner.

On This Week with George Stephanopoulos, when confronted with the notion that...