Hopeful Romantics

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In this world of heightened reality, surrealism has a hard act to follow.   This is a bizzarre place where odd concoctions of thought and fantasy are turned into pronounced theories and devoted belief structures.   The obscure is often mainstream.   The irrelevant is elevated to new heights of culture. Small wonder the recent Boston tempest between [...]

Years ago, when I was first starting out as a writer, my agent in the Los Angeles had a small second floor office in the old Writers and Artists Building, in Beverly Hills.    On several visits to her, I would run into the notorious gangster, Mickey Cohen.   He was one of my agent’s clients.  Jane [...]

America was shocked the learn that the intelligence community was running clandestine operations against terrorists, including assassination attempts.  Yes, the news media and a good portion of the public recoiled in surprise that the clandestine services were running clandestine operations.   This is what passes for news. Now, surely, there were some sticky points, some of [...]

There was a time when Walter Cronkite could have run for President of the United States.  He didn’t.   There was a strong possibility he could have won the election, but still, unlike the news hucksters today he want to parlay their two cents of wisdom into a higher office, Cronkite didn’t succumb. Cronkite had among [...]

Artist Cut of Tron starring Cheech and Chong. Source: www.youtube.com A psychedelic, economic melt down remake of the 1982 sci-fi groundbreaker “Tron.” Starring Cheech and Chong. “I don’t think you should watch anything like that straight. It’ll have lasting, traumatic …