Jack Kightlinger, RIP

Jack Kightlinger, the US Army Signal Corps photographer who was assigned to the White House in 1967 and visually chronicled five presidencies from Lyndon Johnson’s to Ronald Reagan’s, tragically died on Monday when the car in which he and his wife were...

Frost/Nixon Is Forever

Now that Frost/Nixon is comfortably settled in the racks of your local Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, and the touring production with Stacy Keach has run its course, Peter Morgan’s play has started to be produced in repertory theater, with the Austin...

Larry Gelbart, 1928-2009

As I write, either on TV Land or the Hallmark Channel, the inevitable strains of Johnny Mandel’s “Suicide Is Painless” are beginning, the chopper is coming down, and the men and women of the 4077th are getting ready for another session of OR drama...

Words To Live By

At the hybrid of online newspaper and blog that is www.examiner.com, Rudolf Okonkwo, urges President Obama to “be steadfast” when confronting his opponents, and, to illustrate that point, quotes another President: What I want you always remember is Richard...

The Nixon Wit

In tomorrow’s Washington Post Magazine, Gene Weingarten devotes his weekly humor column to a departed politician – but not Sen. Ted Kennedy.  Instead, Weingarten spends several hundred words examining a long-forgotten book titled The Wit & Humor Of...