Myra Chanin

Cary Hoffman, the forthright, funny and entertaining writer/performer of My Sinatra describes himself as a Medicare recipient who looks like a Rabbi. He became enchanted with Frank Sinatra's talent and charisma at the age of 12 when he began sleeping through the night with Frank's vocals as backdrop. The result?...

Google Marty Panzer and you'll be convinced that he was born in the CBS Mailroom at the age of 18, and he may well may have been, in the sense that the CBS Mailroom was where he began to first feel alive.

Up 'til then Marty had no identity,...

For me, no phrase evokes more profound visions of the Downton Abbey lifestyle than the words 'luxury liner.' I'm not talking about those loaded-with-on-the-make-singles Armpit of the Seas superships that dock briefly at each of the Rolex Replica Islands. I mean gazing-across-the-Atlantic-from-a- deck-chair-while-sipping-super-bouillon on a floating manor house -- the...

Comedy is weird. Laughter is a wonder. Comedy with a lower case c as found in Comedy Central is -- with the exception of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert -- is primarily a series of unconnected, undeleted expletives which have about a much staying power as one of your (maybe...

The Amazing Kreskin invited me to join him at William Shatner's new Broadway One Man Show, the immodestly entitled, Shatner's World: We Just Live in It, which just opened in New York for a three week hop, skip and jump prior to its 15 city national tour. On second thought,...

Chinese men have got to be the most dysfunctional -- make that sexually harried -- males alive, at least from an erectile standpoint; understandable in the glory days when Mandarins of means had more concubines on the premises than even Cuba's legendary Superman could easily service. The Chinese...

This week all over the media yet another presidential vestal intern revealed the details of her sad 50-year-old saga of 18 months worth of sort-of-secret liaisons with JFK of Blessed Memory. In 1961, Mimi Alford, the latest crotch level inductee into the History Hall of Fame, was a "slender, golden-haired...

Blogging for HuffPost's Weird News has given me a totally new outlook on life on "the planet, " -- a phrase I find as offensive as calling New York "the city," as though there is no other of either in our expanding universe. Thanks to my new calling, I see...