Washington Post Reviews “Family Of Secrets”

The book section of today’s Washington Post includes a review of Russ Baker’s book Family Of Secrets by Jamie Malanowski (once a mainstay of Spy magazine in its 1980s heyday, later managing editor of Playboy) which includes this observation: In a...

Frost/Other People

Last night SNL turned its attention to F/N and came up with a mildly amusing F/OP.   One definite pleasure is watching Darrell Hammond’s Langella’s Nixon.  

Amazing Disgrace

Hattie Carroll died in 1963. William Zantsinger died last Saturday; his death is reported in today’s papers. Hattie Carroll lives on. The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll William Zanzinger killed poor Hattie Carroll With a cane that he twirled around his diamond...

9 January 2009: RN’s 96th Birthday

  I was born in a house my father built.  My birth on the night of January 9, 1913, coincided with a record-breaking cold snap in our town of Yorba Linda, California.  Yorba Linda was a farming community of 200 people about thirty miles from Los Angeles, surrounded by...