I guess you could say that our relationship with Budd Schulberg was typical Hollywood: we met him, we liked each other, and in the end, we kind of broke his heart. But that didn't mean we didn't stay friends. In Hollywood, nobody will hurt you like your friends. It's a...

Pain Killers revolves around the twisted psyche and horrific actions of Nazi "Race Scientist" Dr. Joseph Mengele aka The Angel of Death. Demented as Mengele may seem now, what's more fascinating -- and more disturbing -- to me, is the foundation of ideology and state that condoned his behavior --...

While Obama was wowing the nation with his humanity and chops in his infomercial, another bit of video hit the screen last night, a snippet with far more sweeping implications and darker portent. I'm speaking, for those who missed it, of Senator Thaddeus McCotter's star turn interview on

Not to brag, but back in my college days, in the misty 7'0s, I helped subsidize my time at Columbia by penning fake sex letters for Penthouse magazine. A staple of erotic fantasies, even then, was the ever popular practice of "role playing". Which I mention now because of...

Poor Barry Bonds. He just doesn't get it. The reason America doesn't love him is not that he did drugs - it's that he did the wrong ones. I mean, Keith Richards has spent more on his right arm than George Bush spends on childrens' health care, and what does...