Sep 22, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Mad Men and 30 Rock swept last night’s Emmys — both in terms of numbers of nominations and numbers of wins. They were chosen best in show for their categories (Best Drama, Best Comedy) and their writers —Matthew Weiner and Tina Fey— retired...
Sep 21, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
I only need a few fingers to count the mysteries and/or thrillers that have, for me, set an exciting and convincing pace from the very first pages that doesn’t let up until an ending which —perhaps most difficult of all to achieve in this...
Sep 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Forty years ago yesterday (sorry about that) — on 16 September 1968 — RN appeared on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. In those days the show was a big thing; and his appearance on it was a big deal. When Laugh-In premiered on NBC in January 1968, it was something the...
Sep 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
On the day after the 91-year-old co-defendant of the Rosenbergs finally admitted that he was, like them, a spy, comes word of the death of the 94-year-old typewriter expert who was dragooned into service for the appeal lodged by Alger Hiss’ defense team....
Sep 11, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Not all old men forget. Morton Sobell, one of the three defendants in the Rosenberg case, is now 91 and living in the Bronx. And he has just admitted, in an interview with Sam Roberts of The New York Times, that he was, in fact, guilty as charged: a Soviet spy...
