4 Comments | Posted 15 March 2012 | 16:28
I am angry enough to spit rust. Here is why:
Our 14-year-old son, BK, goes to boarding school. This past weekend was an exeat, which means all kids are cleared off campus after Friday classes so that frazzled house parents can get hammer-drunk on Friday night and still have two...
27 Comments | Posted 29 February 2012 | 10:45
I didn't think there would be a Part Two to this Whitney story. No real need is there. Except that it was not quite finished with me.
Part One was titled Would Whitney Be Alive if There Was No Bobby? It...
20 Comments | Posted 27 February 2012 | 11:20
As the Academy Awards are across the globe and in the middle of the night, I imposed an assignment on myself to write an inaugural running commentary on our favourite awards show of the year.
Somehow I convinced my wife to stay up and watch. We both knew my...
36 Comments | Posted 21 February 2012 | 23:00
Look, I do not like the question either. But it has to be asked.
And I am not defending Bobby Brown. He was a disturbed and abominable wife-beating cokehead that wore the conductor's hat for Whitney's train ride to junkie hell. But was her destination inevitable? Was Bobby interchangeable?...
25 Comments | Posted 16 February 2012 | 23:00
I just watched The Tree of Life, starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, with Terrence Malick directing.
The first warning should have been the opening ethereal voiceovers whispering about the mystery of Life; and that you literally cannot count to five without being blitzed with a new camera angle....

0 Comments | Posted 21 March 2012 | 13:42