Hi, 1587 35th Avenue, San Francisco, Meet the JFK Assassination
The Belasco Theater in New York at 111 West 44th Street was built over a century ago for Broadway theater impresario David Belasco. […]
Automatic Dishwasher and Stacker Cutaway, 1957
From the engineers at Honeywell in 1957 comes this prediction that, by A.D. 2000, we will have machines under our dining room […]
Cars Will Travel in Tubes by Year 2000
The Year 2000–as it was called before 2000–is looking awfully distant with each passing year. Will it ever happen? And what I […]
To a Swell Dad
I’d kill to have someone give me a card that says, “To a Swell Dad – Handyman, You Fit the Bill.” This […]
Let’s All Check Out Valerie Plame’s Hot Beach Body
Search results on Google and other search engines are either organic or not. Organic means that the results are supposedly raw and […]
Zona Sage and Paul Camera: Progression, But Not Fast Enough
Sharpen your knife, go back in the past, and slice off any section. It all says something. Everything is significant, every mote […]
Long-Forgotten G.I. Coffeehouses: Hotbeds of Anti-War Dissent
In this age of freely flowing words–often too many of them–it’s hard to imagine a day when conversation actually had to be […]
Brute Force (1947): Hume Cronyn’s Sadistic Prison Boss Makes the Movie
I came to Brute Force (1947) for Burt Lancaster but left with Hume Cronyn. Having seen Lancaster in Sweet Smell of Success many […]
Paramount Studios’ “Murder Your Wife” Bricks in Murder Alley
At one time, it was assumed that New York City was the world and the world was New York City. So, films […]
One Easy Way to “Show, Not Tell” in Fiction: Marc Scott Zicree
It’s one of the oldest and hoariest dictums in fiction writing and screenwriting: Show, don’t tell. Screenwriters are better at this than […]