I spent over forty hours traveling to and from Hong Kong last week, and I found myself unable to sleep on the trip home. Overall, I did some academic work, read a good chunk of a history of the Qin and Han empires, and then...
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This is the grave of Jack Klugman. Born in 1922 in Philadelphia, Klugman grew up in a Jewish immigrant household. His parents had come over from Russia. He was in.
I finally got around to Death by Lightning, the Netflix show about the assassination of James Garfield. When I first heard about this, I admit I laughed a little bit--a.
This is the grave of Eva Gabor. Born in 1919 in Budapest, Gabor grew up in a glamorous Jewish household. Her father was a prominent officer and her mother came from a major jeweler family and unlike many women, she was actively involved and had...
The second season of The Wire is incredibly underrated. People who loved the first season were perplexed--why was this season about white people? Even worse, unions? Where's the gangstas???? This.
This is the grave of Ted Knight. Born in 1923....OK, wait a minute. On the grave, he was born as Theodore Konopka, but online, it says Tadeusz Konopka. Well, whatever,.
I was reading this piece about the potential but also pitfalls of more college football on Fridays. One reason for it isn't just that the viewing audience for network TV is old--it's so old that it is going to fall off a cliff in the...
This is the grave of Herbert Middleton, who was known in his acting career as Taurean Blacque. Born in 1940 in Newark, Middleton grew up there and became interested in.
This is actually a very good Morley Safer piece from 60 Minutes on Chiang Kai-Shek from 1971. It's quite realistic about many issues--Chiang was not and never was any kind.
Gen X weeps: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who rose to fame as a teenager playing Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” in the mid-1980s, died in Costa Rica on Sunday. He was 54. Warner drowned while swimming at a beach on the Caribbean coast of...
Without question, Norm was one of the best characters in network sitcom history. RIP.
This is the grave of Peter Falk. Born in 1927 in The Bronx, Falk grew up in a fairly typical Jewish family of that time. His dad owned a dry.