Nancy Kwan was hot. She’s in her 70s now and still very beautiful, but when she started her film career at 20 years old, playing a prostitute in The World Of Suzy Wong, her hotness positively sizzled off the screen. Same thing in her next movie, the Flower Drum Song,…
Pico Iyer is a travel writer’s travel writer, one of a small elite among the living (also Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson, Jan Morris) whose travel writing ranks as literature. In an era when most travel publications want stories about Five Fab Luxury Hotels for Dogs or Ten Terrific Places to…
Fact: No amount of updating or clever modern-day references will make Gilbert & Sullivan operettas cool. And that’s OK with dorky old farts like me. I started mainlining G&S when I was a teenage usher at the Light Opera of Manhattan in the 1970s. I can practically sing the G&S…
Juicy Fruit. That’s the answer to the question I’ve had since I first read (and then reread) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. So I’m grateful to the person who asked author Erik Larson about his inspiration for the book…
On the occasional occasions when I watch The Biggest Loser, I’m in it for the weigh-in: the glory of success, the tragedy of defeat, the big people in little clothes, the gradual emergence of muscles, the transformations. I love a good makeover. The other stuff — the sweating, the grunting,…
Dr. Phil McGraw will speak at the University of North Texas’ doctoral and masters commencement ceremony on Friday. The event is free and open to the public, and will be live-streamed online here.Presumably, the good doctor will reminisce about his halcyon days at the university, where he got his doctorate…
