The Strange Love of Martha Ivers Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas (his first film), Judith Anderson, Roman Bohnen, Darryl Hickman. Classic film noir. Atlas's favorite genre. This is a classic and Stanwyck is wicked. Brilliant. In The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, relationships formed in childhood lead to [Continue]
If you believe the worst about Biz Radio and its founder Dan Frishberg, it was nothing more than one part of an elaborate Ponzi Scheme. Frishberg is a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) who boasted once of managing about $300 million of others' portfolios. Yet, he's seen that number grew exponentially after he launched Biz Radio [Continue]
Despite being a bit of an old showbiz queen, I’m not much for the huggy-kissy photo wall of me sharing a joke with various luvvies. I make an exception on the bureau behind my desk for a shot of yours truly and a beautiful woman, Somali by birth, Dutch by citizenship, at a beachfront bar [Continue]
Frank Rich and Bill Maher Make Fools of Themselves The BP Gulf of Mexico oil leak disaster has not only caused untold economic and environmental devastation to the Gulf Coast, damaged further the political reputation of President Obama, and likely destroyed BP as a company, but has also caused bizarre behavior in the media. The [Continue]
I'm still looking at this… Seismographs all over recorded an odd event about 7 hours ago. Link to the live data (which may roll off in another hour or two, but I captured the page) http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/heli2.shtml View full post on Latest Articles [Continue]
1) Lincoln was elected in 1860, Obama was elected in 2008, nearly 150 years later. 2) Lincoln eliminated involuntary servitude. Obama eliminated private sector jobs. 3) Lincoln and Obama were both married to ugly wives who went crazy. 4) Each man's wife gained over forty pounds while living at the White House. 5) Lincoln was [Continue]
There was a time, oh, a week or two ago, when the mainstream media portrayed the tea-party movement as an assortment of crazed angry extremist redneck racist idiots. What changed? The headline we've given this column is a phrase coined by the conservative writer Tom Bethell to refer to the media's attitude toward conservatives who [Continue]
What can this be approaching across the sands of Iraq? It can't be. It's not possible. It's not found in this unnatural habitat … and yet there is. It shows the outward signs, including some of the innate strengths and inevitable weaknesses and distinctive eccentricities of that rarest of creatures in those Mesopotamian [Continue]
A declassified FBI report from the Baltimore field office dated Aug. 25, 1950 provides some tantalizing support for the claim. "The BW experiments to be conducted by representatives of the Department of the Army in the New York Subway System in September 1950, have been indefinitely postponed," states the memo, a copy of [Continue]
The inurnment service for Elizabethton K-9 Officer Yoris was held in Johnson City Friday morning. More than 40 vehicles joined the motorcade. It left Tetrick Funeral Home in Elizabethton around 10:30 a.m., and arrived in the Washington County Memory Gardens just before 11 a.m.Bristol Tennessee Patrol Officer Chesney Griffin and nine-year-old Auzia [Continue]
The Tiger Woods press conference today was strange viewing for sports fans around the world. The prepared speech was read by Woods as if he were presenting an award at the Grammys, up to and including the parts where he "apologized" by staring straight into the camera and slowly delivering a mea culpa. I'm not [Continue]
