PASADENA, Calif.—Bob Odenkirk is still processing his feelings after suffering a massive heart attack in July 2021 and says a big takeaway is to strive for a better work-life balance. “I don’t think I’ve figured it out yet,” the actor said Tuesday while attending a biannual gathering of TV critics. “I have to do a…
The Playground of Poetry: Light Verse and Whimsy
I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one, But I can tell you, anyhow, I’d rather see than be one! In 1895, American writer and humorist Frank Gelett Burgess penned those lines, which became one of the most famous American nonsense rhymes. Frank Burgess, circa 1910. Selections from the Bancroft Library…
Charlie Chaplin: The Property Man (1914)
July 20, 2022
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Charlie has trouble with actors’ luggage and conflicts over who gets the star’s dressing room. There are further difficulties with frequent scene changes, wrong entries, and a fireman’s hose. At one point, he juggles an athlete’s supposed weights. The humor is still rough: he kicks an older assistant in the face and allows him to…
Is It Borrowing, Stealing or Simply Caretaking?
By Lori Borgman From Tribune News Service I have found that one of the best ways to refurbish aging kitchen goods is to attend a pitch-in dinner. I have just returned from a large family gathering to which I took a spinach salad and came home with baked beans, watermelon and a slab of chocolate…
A Brave Grandfather Branches Out
By Jerry Zezima From Tribune News Service I used to think the high point of grandparenthood was doing incredibly silly things with my grandchildren. Now I realize I am not the top grandfather anymore. That’s because I recently met one who climbs trees for a living. Rene Funez is a happily married man with four…
Jerry Zezima: Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary
By Jerry Zezima From Tribune News Service When it comes to gardening, I’m a blooming idiot. But that hasn’t stopped my wife, Sue, from enlisting my sorry services in planting vegetables, transplanting plants and making the flower beds comfy because, as I told her when we went to the landfill for some free topsoil, I…
Remembering Paul Newman: the Mega-star and Philanthropist Whose Kindness Touched the Lives of Millions
“The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer who puts back into the soil what he takes out.” —Paul Newman Highly respected…
Laughter as Medicine: Chonda Pierce Brings Joy Through Clean Humor and Honest Reflections on Her Life Struggles
Spend an hour with Chonda Pierce and you could count on laughing for the rest of the day—maybe even the rest of your life. Her fairly innocent irreverence is applied to topics ranging from growing up as a preacher’s daughter, shopping at Walmart, to political fodder. Pierce also performed at several White House events when…
Finding the Republic of Molossia
The idea that would eventually manifest into the Republic of Molossia—a country within the United States—occurred to President Kevin Baugh when he was 15 years old and living with his parents in Portland, Ore. With his best friend, James, he watched “The Mouse that Roared,” the British satirical film starring Peter Sellars, based on Leonard…
[Premiering at 7:30PM] Independent Platforms Are Bringing Back Family Friendly Entertainment: Keith Stubbs and Butch Hartman
Politics is downstream from culture, as the late Andrew Breitbart said, and popular entertainment can act as a window into tomorrow’s politics. With this in mind, there’s a new wave of moral entertainment—from family-friendly cartoons to clean comedy—that has been enabled by new entertainment platforms that are breaking the monopoly on video entertainment. We recently…
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