Fred Schruers

"To anyone who’s going on shift tonight or coming off shift tonight, thank you for being in that job,” said Noah Wyle in collecting his award as Outstanding Lead Actor in A Television series,  “This is for you.” Noah Wyle is such an embraceable—if sporadically edgy—onscreen

It takes nothing away from what director Amy Berg has accomplished with her (now-streaming)  Jeff Buckley documentary to note how strikingly watchable her key subject is in every frame he occupies. There’s a character he steadfastly refuses to play—the budding rock star with a big record deal and

---- This post was prepared before the heartbreaking news from the Minneapolis school shooting. Given the murkiness of the motive and of the sourcing of the weaponry, for now this blog will maintain respectful silence on that event. ---- This was the week Donald J. Trump asserted "The right

In this current recasting of career and personal Billy Joel highlights occasioned by the deserved popularity of the “And So It Goes” doc on HBO,  I’m bringing some  dramatis personae forward here on the blog. Along with excerpts from the biography I wrote with cooperation from Billy, I'

The missus and I have long been followers of the Kennedy clan and of its most infamous surviving specimen, Bobby Kennedy Jr. In recent months we were glad to see him move into a picturesque row house in our beloved Georgetown (surrounded though our enclave may be by that widely