As Ernest Hemingway knew, love and war go together like peanut butter and jelly or Jake and Lady Ashley. Juxtapose romance with constant danger, death and destruction and you come up with some of the most memorable stories ever written. ...more

November 28, 2008

As Ernest Hemingway knew, love and war go together like peanut butter and jelly or Jake and Lady Ashley. Juxtapose romance with constant danger, death and destruction and you come up with some of the most memorable stories ever written. ...more

November 26, 2008

"Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies," by Donald Spoto (Harmony Books, $26) ...more

November 9, 2008

No. 2 daughter is basking in the glow of a New England maternity leave – for now. ...more

August 13, 2008

There is much to deplore about the practice of smoking cigarettes, including the likelihood the vile habit played a role in the too-early deaths of silver-screen giants Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Lon Chaney, Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner. ...more

May 29, 2008

One sure way to feel like an antiqueis to have buildings that you've watched go up in your own lifetime be labeled "culturally-protected landmarks." That happened to me, recently, on a return visit to Stockholm, Sweden, where I spent 35 years of my expatriate career. ...more

December 15, 2007