There are countless supporting actors. Some are off-beat and quirky, and everybody calls them “character actors.” Others may be every bit as much eye-candy as a top-billed movie star. On

One evening, my friend Terry Talley – a stage actor, a playwright, a manager of charitable donations at UNICEF, a white guy, and an often infuriating but always true-hearted good

I held a Daytime Emmy statuette once. As everyone says about those show biz awards, they are heavier than you expect. During the global pandemic lockdown broadcast of the 47th

Actor George Gerdes once bit me on the thigh. He did not pierce the flesh but his teeth marks lingered on my skin, as I recall, for months. I will

Currently, we find ourselves in the midst of large-scale upheavals – groping for “new normals” in a global pandemic; passionate demands across the U.S. and the world for social reform

An interactive quiz feature is coming soon to STVC! In the meantime, here are the answers to the Summer 2020 Newsletter Mini-Quiz – the correct monikers for each of these

(I intended to write this 5 days ago, the day I posted the Mini Quiz on Facebook; and if you have come looking for the “Before Black People Were Invented”

Much of the country right now is infused with passion for justice and social change after the on-screen killing of African-American citizen George Floyd at the hands of a white