Mel Gibson, Dead or Alive?

After suffering through We Were Soldiers , I think I’ve seen all the war movies I care to endure for quite some time. The film documents the blood and carnage of the disastrous three-day November 1965 battle in the Ia Drang Valley that signaled the beginning of the war in Vietnam. Movies about the war Read More

Two Men We’ve Loved, Hopeful Yet World-Weary

Sadly, in terms of the merciless camera, Robert Redford and Warren Beatty will never see sweet 60 again, which these days usually doesn’t inhibit good-looking male stars from scoring with chicks on the screen. But what is a little unusual about these two Hollywood heartthrobs is that each has seen the handwriting on the wall, Read More

Next Year In Jerusalem With Grandma

At my family’s Passover seder this year, we celebrated the survival of the Jewish people-my grandmother in particular. At the age of 98, she entered New York Hospital on Feb. 11 in severe pain. Her small intestine had become blocked. The doctor in the emergency room gave us two options-either operate and she’d probably die, Read More