Carla Jean Shaffer’s death has always been a mystery but was it a murder?
That’s the question haunting her friends and family nearly 14 years after her passing. Many theories abound, everything from ‘dark forces,’ a conspiracy, mind manipulation and, yes, murder. But with all of that, there also is talk of suicide and a mental breakdown.
At the movies, it’s a baby boomer summer!
Maybe it’s only a happy coincidence but it feels like the movie summer of 2019 has been designed to appeal to the generation born between 1946 and 1964.
I watched the Fyre Festival documentaries on Hulu and Netflix…
To a storyteller like myself, it’s fascinating to see the differences and the similarities between the documentaries because, as we all know, there are many ways to tell the same story.
John Lennon: petulant genius, marginal human
After reading Being John Lennon by longtime Beatles chronicler Ray Connolly, one can’t but help think that John Lennon simply never grew up.
Sometimes we all need beauty in our lives…
Sometimes, the world is butt ugly. Eleven members of a synagogue dead in Pittsburgh while attending a bris, two African-Americans killed while grocery shopping in…
Book review: Sally Field was a victim of Hollywood’s casting couch long before Weinstein….
Somewhere in the middle of this revelatory and emotionally powerful memoir by Sally Field, she unpacks a story that is a case study in what…
Latest book review: “Small Fry” by Lisa Brennan-Jobs….
After reading this memoir about life with her famous father Steve Jobs, one comes away feeling that author Lisa Brennan-Jobs must be the most even-tempered…
In Lisbon, remembering those who came before….
Recently, I visited Lisbon and as I was walking through one of the oldest parts of town–a neighborhood called the Mouraria–I spotted plaques attached to…
Book Review: “Reporter” by Seymour M. Hersh
[Note: A few years back, Ted Sturtz, a former investment banker and lover of books, was dismayed by all the newspapers dropping their book review…
Who is this other Paul La Rosa anyway?
I know you Google yourself because, let’s face it, everyone does. (Here’s the other guy above and me to the right in case you were…