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

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

The nation is in a somewhat limbo-like state, morphing into what we hope will be a more relaxed phase of the COVID-19 crisis/lockdown/quarantine/ordeal/adventure. In my attempt to be clever, I’m

I don’t usually do memorial notices but…William Schallert! WILLIAM SCHALLERT (that is an anguished shout). I hate it when the world has to go on without someone so rich in spirit and artistic