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“Turkey Dinner” Candy Corn! Is It Real? I’ve Got The Truth About Candy Corn! “What The Friday?!?!” How To Disguise It Too!One Of The Most Controversial Sweets In History! It’s true. Look it up. You either love them or hate them: CANDY CORN. First of all, what exactly are they? Easy. They are candy bites shaped t…
3The Truth Behind “The Gunfight At The OK Corral”! Come With Me To The “Real” Tombstone! My Trip Across America Visits The Wild Wild West!Ready For A Gunfight? Meet Me At The OK Corral! That’s right, there really is a Tombstone, and there really is an “OK Corral” – but what really happened there? Time for my s…
2Roger Ebert’s Cannes Film Festival Memoir! My “Wednesday Bookmobile” Has My Cannes Memories With Schwarzenegger! Prince Albert Too!Welcome To The Cannes Film Festival! It’s the most glamorous film festival in the world – and in this #quarantinelife, it was cancelled this year for the first time since 1968, when the…
3The Most Photographed Street In Beverly Hills! Cruising Up The Legendary Bedford Drive! Lana Turner’s Crime House!Time For A Photo Shoot! It’s the most photographed street in Beverly Hills, and is used for photo shoots all day and night – like this time when I captured two of them simultaneously in…
2ALL NEW Kelly Clarkson #kellyoke Performances! Sam Smith! Patty Loveless! All New Kelly Clarkson “Summer Staycation” Shows!Kelly Clarkson’s Summer Staycation! As we are all adjusting to some kind of #quarantinelife, Kelly Clarkson and her team are creating all new shows for the summer – and that means ALL N…
3Monty Python’s “Holy Grail”! Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls”! DeNiro’s “Midnight Run” And More “Movies With An M!” Ten Ways To Escape #QuarantineLife!Let’s Go To The Movies! My second home is a movie palace: a place to escape, to explore, to dream, and to be inspired…so like all of you, #quarantinelife has been a tough adjustment …
2A Touching Eulogy From An Incredible Book About An Entertainment Icon! This “Wednesday Bookmobile” Heads To Hollywood To Celebrate Great Talent!Welcome To Hollywood! This “Wednesday Bookmobile” is heading to Tinseltown for a touching eulogy, plus an update about one of the town’s most iconic hotels… The Definitive S…
2Kelly Clarkson’s Funniest Cooking Fails! Hilarious Cooking Moments From The Kelly Clarkson Show With Nick Jonas! Chance The Rapper! Kathy Bates!!Kelly Clarkson’s Funniest Cooking Moments! I love the cooking segments on “The Kelly Clarkson Show”, and while they can’t be done together during #quarantinelife, the show r…
3Peanut Butter Bacon & Elvis! Frosted Flake Chicken! “Squeeze Please!” My Ten Most Creative Sandwiches!Elvis Is Hungry! Elvis loved a good meal, we all know that. He would have loved this one: imagine how the King would have felt to see all of his favorite things on one plate! Yes, his favorite sand…
3A Peek “Behind The Beautiful Forevers”! My “Wednesday Bookmobile” Has The Harrowing Story Of Life In A Mumbai Slum!Life, Death And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity! I wanted to share an amazing, although sobering, book about a way of life you probably could never imagine – as the Author describes here: “A…
3“Mucho Mucho Amor!” Netflix Has The Incredible Story Of Walter Mercado! Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Incredible Appearance On “Cult Movie Monday!!Meet Walter Mercado! The Fascinating Story Of Puerto Rico’s Iconic Performer / Astrologist! Do you know Walter Mercado? If you are Puerto Rican, you most certainly do – and if you were …
3New Grindhouse Purgatory Is For Sale! “Satan’s Sadists!” Cannibals! Stewardesses! All The Cult Cinema You Love! Here Are Details!The New Grindhouse Purgatory Is Here! Time for lovers of cult films to rejoice – the latest issue of the terrific Grindhouse Purgatory magazine is here! Pete Chiarella – AKA Grindhouse …
2LIVE Hall & Oates! “Songs In The Key Of “S”! The Beatles! Elton John! Incredible Music That “Sows The Seeds Of Love!”Remember Concerts? As we all have had to adjust to #quarantinelife, perhaps one of the most severely impacted businesses has been live music…remember when we could join a gathering of thousan…
2A postcard from Spain's most picture-perfect townI finally left Seville, from where I sent my last postcard, as Spain entered what the government are calling the new normal. However, passing through Ronda I saw that the people do not necessarily agree. The term ghost town has, by necessity, been vastly overused in these pages, but what else can one say? The lovely old historic restaurants like Hermanos Macías, opposite Spain’s most historic...
6Action Classics! Hilarious Hijinks! My “Movies With A K” Has Oscar Winners, Bowlers, Rupert Pupkin and “Killer Joes” Too!Ten Great “K” Films! A theater full of laughing patrons is something that we are NOT seeing right now due to the pandemic – and so we are all watching films at home. Time now to c…
2My “Life Thru Liquid” Photos! Malibu Sunsets Thru A Martini! My Favorite Shots Of Life – Thru Adult Beverages!Cheers To A Malibu Sunset! What a gorgeous sunset over the pacific ocean…taken through a Dirty Martini, of course! Some friends know that I have been on a strange kick: taking pictures THROUG…
2#Quarantinelife Signs! “What The Friday?!?!” Check Out These “Social Distancing” Signs! And Six-Foot Tennis Shoes!Signs Of Our Times! As the world struggles through the worst health crisis in a century, we have endured months of #quarantinelife, and shocking worldwide death tolls as the world fights to overcom…
1Terrific “Theater Of Fish!” This “Wednesday Bookmobile” Baits The Hook Of Newfoundland, Labrador And The Collapse Of Cod!Welcome To Newfoundland! Yes, it’s a country that many people don’t know much about, and yes, it has icebergs that drop in all the time, providing amazing pics like these! this “W…
3The World’s First “Drive-In Haunted House!” Where Else But Tokyo! “What The Friday!?!?” Here Are Pictures And Details!“This is a garage where a horrible incident occurred long ago. Now people say that if you park your car inside and honk your horn three times, something will happen.” “What The Friday!?!?!…
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