The documentary American Casino, made by Leslie and Andrew Cockburn, follows plain folk with subprime-mortgaged homes as their properties become bundled derivatives on computer spreadsheets and move through countless reratings into default. The film, gearing up for a feature-length documentary Academy Award nomination, began it's national run Sunday at New...

It was hell going up and down in the elevator at 985 Fifth Avenue with Eliot Spitzer and his wife and three young daughters, pretending everything was fine. I was their occasional neighbor until four years ago, frequently staying in the apartment of a friend whose master bedroom was directly...

Nothing like going for a swim with Anton Chigurh -- er, Best Supporting Actor Javier Bardem -- the cattle gun-carrying serial killer in Best Picture No Country for Old Men. His deadly-white countenance and horrible haircut were every bit as repellent in person as on screen. I drank my mid-day...

By George, she's got it. I think she's got it! Hillary's 35 years of service earned her more than experience; it has given her what until now has been impossible for women--presidential hair.

She has battled her way through too long, too short, too frizzy, too straight, too big, too...

A few days after Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama, I was training new voice-recognition software to understand my dictation. The set-up menu gave me several choices of things to read into a microphone. One was the Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy.

After noticing that Obama's slogan...

Was there a press blackout on mentioning that Hillary Clinton made history in New Hampshire? The first woman to win a major presidential primary.

I like Obama. A lot. I like Martin Luther King's "I have a dream speech." A lot. It's nice that Obama can talk about realizing Dr....

This week a movie that I produced on the history of the anti-abortion movement, Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion, comes out on DVD. I hope you will buy it and watch it. But in the meantime, has anyone noticed that there are five Catholic justices on...