John McCain's performance on Saturday Night Live last night just may be the long-awaited October surprise of the election season.

That's because last night we learned---as we might have suspected---that McCain is hands-down a better actor than a politician.

While most of the credit for the show has to go...

Next week my documentary, Waiting for Hockney, is fortunate to premiere at the TriBeCa Film Festival. My producing team---which includes Geralyn Dreyfous of the Oscar-winning Born into Brothels---and I have been waiting to reveal at last this outrageously funny and beautiful story about a working class guy from Baltimore with...

When I heard from a friend this morning that Hinckley was dead, iconic images of the Jodi-Foster-obsessed-would-be-assassin of Ronald Reagan flew to mind: the blonde pre-crime Hinckley posed in front of the White House; the bespectacled young man in handcuffs; the older Hinckley escorted by Secret Service agents out of...