I like reading biographies. You learn about someone’s life and you learn about the times in which they lived, so a biography delivers history as well as biography, a kind of double feature.

Some years ago, I found and bought two “Vissi d’arte” bumper stickers — one for my brother and one for me.

Someone recommended a general to Napoleon.

(Someone had to go boldly first…)

Life, as we learn sooner or later, can contain an uncertain mix of pain and pleasure.

(Don’t be scared)

As a working Hollywood screenwriter (and sometimes director), I’ve had some interesting assignments.

The Odyssey is a timeless story.

The Immortal, Immoral Gypsy

Influence is a tricky topic. There are influences you can point to; influences you can identify; influences that sound cool (ah, yes, the poetry of Verlaine); but perhaps most intriguing are the influ...

Sometimes – perhaps most of the time – an actor can wait all his life for his breakout role.

Sometimes you’re lucky if you don’t get your first choice.

These days just when you think one danger may be passing, another emerges.

The worst problem about nuclear war is that no one wants to think about it.

Director Nicholas Meyer revisits the San Francisco inspiration behind “Time After Time,” “Star Trek IV” and his enduring love for the city.

Nicholas Meyer: Storyteller. Five decades. Seven Holmes novels. Three Star Trek films. One treaty. This is where the stories behind the stories get told. Click to read Nicholas Meyer, a Substack publi...

Until now I thought that back in the late 1980s and early 90s the only ones honestly, ruthlessly covering Donald Trump were Wayne Barrett at The Village Voice and we happy few at Spy. But I just came...

Expect some "ragrets" from the likes of Cornyn and Cassidy.

The Pentagon's descent into farce under "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth

This is brilliant! I needed this laugh today after so much heartbreak. The art of war.. by Don Tsu

This is brilliant! I needed this laugh today after so much heartbreak. The art of war.. by Don Tsu

Let’s say the photo of naked man appeared on line and in news media everywhere. We would say, That is a photo of a naked man. Now let’s say the same man appeared fully clothed, wearing a hat, coat, ...

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Pete Hegseth is an unfit disgrace who lacks every quality of integrity, decency and wisdom a man whose work involves sending others to die should possess.

Pete Hegseth is an unfit disgrace who lacks every quality of integrity, decency and wisdom a man whose work involves sending others to die should possess.