Hopeful Romantics

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic behavior in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.

A year ago the world’s hookers were being pinched by their flush clientele.   Now the same prostitutes are feeling the pinch.  Life is a lot tougher out on the streets and in the bordellos of the world.   The economic downturn is hurting the world’s oldest profession.
In Prague, long known for its post-communist bohemian scene and [...]

Our best critics are dying.   And with it a form of writing and assessment of our cultural has been downgraded to a lower form.   Where critics once served to educate their readers and point to new directions in our arts and culture, most criticism today is either boosterism or narcissism.   It is a shame, really, [...]

Tex Ritter and John Ritter were father and son, respectively.   Tex Ritter was born Woodward Maurice Ritter.  Hardly a cowboy name.  John Ritter was born John Ritter, a cowboy name, but the son was not the cowboy.   Maurice Ritter changed his name to Tex and the rest was history.  John Ritter stayed on as John, [...]

Once upon a time you had independent restaurants that sold good food at modest prices.  You also had lousy, greasy spoons that sold bad food at modest prices.  So, enter the chain restaurant.   There was no gamble there.  You were treated to mediocre food at modest prices.  The video of the rats running all over [...]

The house where Lizzie Borden may have killed her family is now a Bed and Breakfast lodge.   This sturdy wood frame house in sturdy Fall River, Massachusetts hardly looks like a celebrated murder scene, but then so few really do.   That is, until you look at them with the knowing eye.   Otherwise would you know [...]