A Prudish Parent

I can’t help but think of sex when I clothes shop with my teenage daughter. There, I’ve said it—at the risk of sounding like a parent from a by-gone era, the kind who when I was growing up might have opposed dancing for fear that it would lead to...

‘Radio’ Actress Sarah Drew Tunes In Priorities

About a year ago, Sarah Drew—newly wed and newly graduated from the University of Virginia—found herself in Walterboro, S.C. The former drama major was about to start shooting her first feature film—Columbia Pictures’ “Radio,” starring Ed Harris and...

A Hopeful Word to All The World

Millions of people are out of work, and many others change jobs every few years. But one very important person has kept his job for a quarter century, and this fact alone has brought him a great deal of attention. I write, of course, of Karol Wojtyla, better know as...

Testament

When most people think about comics, they think of superheroes clad in spandex, capes flying in the wind, going about their derring-do. Yet, in the last two decades of the 20th century, comics transitioned in many ways. Stories were not just about the spandex bunch;...

Celebrity Politicians Come Into Their Own

In a world where life sometimes imitates art, Arnold Schwarzenegger, an actor with no previous political experience or apparent political interest, is now governor-elect of California. This election was not merely a contest between a failed political insider and an...