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Category Archives: Hollywood
Dennis McDougal’s First Novel Is About The Vietnam War — The Candlestickmaker
Here are my previous interviews with the author of ten books. Here’s what Amazon.com has to say about Dennis and his new book: Aboard the spy ship U.S.S. Argosy in the war-tossed waters off the coast of Vietnam, three young … Continue reading
Movie Ratings
Jan. 6. Dennis Prager: “My wife mentioned how much we enjoyed The King’s Speech to Mormon friends. Could they see it? It has an R-rating. “There’s no violence. No sex. Just 30 seconds of profanity. It was necessary and funny. … Continue reading
William Adrian — Eight Decades In Teen Modeling
William Adrian discovered Cheryl Tiegs, Linda Gray, Kim Carnes and Barbie Benton. Since 1948, Adrian has operated a teen modeling agency and modeling school out of Pasadena, California. I call him Friday morning. He’s busy placing a second girl in … Continue reading
Am I the Only Orthodox Blogger Who’s Feeling the Love for the New Harry Potter?
Good Guys Having Fun
From DennisPrager.com: Prager H1: The UK High Court has said Catholic adoption agencies must give exactly the same preference to same sex couples as to heterosexual couples – essentially kicking them out of the adoption business… Mexico is becoming a … Continue reading
The Movie ‘Greenberg’ Hit Too Close To Home
From IMDB: The film follows Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), a 40-year-old man who has recently suffered a nervous breakdown and is now struggling to just “do nothing.” He returns to L.A., where he had grown up and had a semi-successful … Continue reading
Dennis Prager On Lindsay Lohan
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager says: “The life of Lindsay Lohan does not rivet me. The collective works of Lindsay Lohan would not rivet my attention. The only reason I mention this is because of her mother. Lindsay … Continue reading
Andrea Thompson Commentaries
Steam Chip emails: I just emerged from my cave a few weeks ago and discovered who Andrea Thompson is. Consider anything I write from here on in this particular context — it is NEW news to me. Next week I’ll … Continue reading
A.O. Scott
How pretentious is that? A. O. Scott. What kind of person calls himself by his initials? Only posers do this. I guess plain old “Anthony Scott” is just not dramatic enough for A. O. Scott. You can see it in … Continue reading
The Informant
I’ve tried to hold off for the past 18 hours writing about this movie. I just saw it yesterday. The bipolar protagonist? That’s me. I don’t want to write about this dark side of mine because it could be really … Continue reading