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The Sabols - father Ed and son Steve - did for pro football what Cecil B. DeMille did for Biblical epics. Beginning in 1962, the Sabols' film studio, NFL Films, essentially created the modern highlight film, with its slow-motion ballet of long bombs spiraling into receivers' hands and the tumult of…
Every actor has a signature role. For General Hospital cast member John Ingle, it was his portrayal of Edward Quartermaine, one of the wealthiest men in fictional Port Charles, N.Y., and a schemer so cleverly insidious that Niccolo Machiavelli might have looked to him as a model for The Prince.
Dr. Thomas Szasz wasn't a popular figure in his chosen specialty of psychiatry, in part because he denounced his colleagues as little more than quacks and questioned whether the disorders they were diagnosing even existed. Indeed, Szasz's controversial 1961 book, The Myth of Mental Illness,…
When you're an artist, it helps to have a wealthy patron who recognizes and supports your talent. Michelangelo, for example, was just a lowly painter's apprentice when he was discovered by Lorenzo de Medici, the most powerful man in Florence, who gave him a place to live in his mansion and…
Tablets and smartphones are pretty nifty, we admit. But when it comes to actually doing stuff - whether it's writing memos or working on spreadsheets at the office, or playing fantasy baseball at night - we still depend heavily on that reliable old workhorse, the laptop. It's got a roomy keyboard…
If you grew up in the early to mid-1970s, you may remember tuning your AM radio to a local Top 40 station and grooving to music that, for want of a better word, we'll call the Memphis Sound. It was a hybrid of country's twangy guitar and plaintive vocals with the driving beat and existential,…
After Charlie Futrell retired from teaching middle-school history and phys-ed in 1976, the former college and pro baseball player put on a few pounds, as a lot of us in our 50s do. But a couple of years later, when he saw a pair of sneakers in a store's bargain bin for just $3, he decided to do a…
To Hal David, who teamed with Burt Bacharach to create such classics as "Walk on By" and "What the World Needs Now Is Love," writing songs was all about articulating what millions of people felt deep down in their souls.
If you were a fan of the classic late 1950s-early 1960s coming-of-age TV sitcom, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, you probably enjoyed disliking that insufferable scion of wealth, Chatsworth Osborne, Jr., who was Dobie's romantic rival and antagonist. A decade or so before Monty Python popularized…
If you were a guy growing up around 1960, you probably daydreamed at some point about how great it would be to trade places with The Kahuna, the world-wise, Bohemian beach bum portrayed by Cliff Robertson in the 1959 beach-movie classic Gidget.