As Others See Us…..And Themselves

Quentin Letts is a columnist for the Daily Mail.  He cut his teeth as the Telegraph’s Peterborough, and has been The Times’ New York correspondent. Much of what he writes is calculatedly over the top (think: Maureen Dowd but without the labored Shakespeare...

The Most Important Visit

RealClearPolitics has a list of the 10 most important presidential visits to other countries.  If you cannot guess which one came out on top … then you probably stumbled onto this blog by mistake.

A New Chapter In Revisionist History

As President Obama travels to Europe to confer with leaders there about how to come to grips with the worldwide recession, Kate Pickert, at Time.com, compares the trip to earlier Presidential travels overseas. Ms. Pickert is a native of Watertown, New York, and...

Making History On A Full Stomach

RN greeted British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on his arrival at Washington’s National Airport in June 1954.  The PM might have been thinking “This is a very impressive young man.”  Or, as we now know, he might have been thinking:...

MAURICE JARRE   1924 – 2009

Composer Maurice Jarre conducted a suite from his Oscar-winning score for Doctor Zhivago at a 1992 tribute to the film’s director David Lean. Composer and conductor Maurice Jarre died of cancer in Los Angeles on Sunday.  He was 84.  Born in Lyon, he abandoned...

More Sleepless Nights For Elizabeth Drew

Last night Stacy Keach completed his run as RN in Frost/Nixon at LA’s Ahmanson Theatre, triumphantly fighting back, in the best Nixonian tradition, to retake the stage after being hospitalized for a week by a mild stroke. Tomorrow through Sunday, he appears with...