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- Collecting Tokens
- Communicatrix
- Compost Studios
- Consuming LA
- Crib Chronicles
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- Don't Look Too Close
- Elise's Ramblings
- Everyone Needs Therapy
- Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords
- Flux Capacitor
- Frank's Wild Lunch
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- Gorillabuns
- Happy Sad Mama
- Here in the Hills
- Hitlist Movies Blog
- Huffington Post (Link to my articles)
- I'm Unschooled. Yes, I Can Write.
- J-ust M-e
- Jane Devin
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- Laid-Off Dad
- Leahpeah
- Lorelei
- Los Angeles Is My Beat
- Luke, I Am Your Father
- Me & My Shadow
- Mining Nuggets
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- Mr. Gobley
- Never Too Old To Talk Tech
- Oh, Jenny Mae
- One Weary Soldier
- Only Connect
- Pearlies of Wisdom
- Pratie Place
- QC Report
- Roberta’s Voice
- Said the Red-Head
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- Spit and Baling Wire...
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- Style Rookie
- Sue Katz: Consenting Adult
- Sunset Gun
- Susan Ohanian.Org
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- The Rookie Caregiver
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Recent Posts
Family
- Au Clair de la Lune
- Mazel Tov Wilco!
- I Am Risen
- The Bronx Is Up, But the Battery’s Down
- Kentucky Girl
- The Judy Miller Show
- Critical Moments
- Living Portraits
- Paper Anniversary
- Nothing Is Better for Thee Than Me
- Yahrtzeit
- Will the Real Danny Miller Please Stand Up?
- The Day That Belongs to You
- Family Pictures
- The Jewish Ricardos
- The Best Years of Our Lives
- When You’re Feeling Blue…Have Some Oatmeal!
- Field's Special
- Shtetl Reunion
- Eleven
- New Years Eve 1965
- Acoustic Sweet Spot
- The Judy Miller Show Revisited
- Father's Day in Chicago
- All-Ages Show
- Kendall Hailey is 40!
- Camping It Up
- Acting My Age at Lollapalooza
- Henry the Dog
- Itsheh Meyer Korolnek, Pop Star
- Twelve
- Family Non Sequiturs
- Danger: Blogger in the Family
- Spin the Bottle
- Crazy Uncle Thomas
- Un Der Rebbe Lernt Kleyne Kinderlach
- The Judy Miller Show (Revisited Again)
- The Thanks He Gets
- Celebrating Dysfunctional Dads
- My Nephew, the Son of God
- Susan Miller Tweedy Is 50!
- Past-Life Regression
- Revisionism Revisited
- Lessons from Wilco
- Sshh! Family Secrets
- Happy 100th Birthday, Sam Karoll!
- All Hallows Eve 1967
- May I Have This Dance, Amy Winehouse?
- A Father’s Plea to Teenage Boys
- Thirteen
- My Pyschic Encounter with Jack Ruby
- Grammy Night
- Daughter of the Commandment
- The Judy Miller Show: Season Four
- Fasten Your Seat Belt, Kendall Hailey!
- July 24, 1969
- Chicago, Here We Come!
- Burr Oaks Camp: Back to the Future
- Windy City Regression
- Memories at 35,000 Feet
- Heart of Gold
- Joffrey Velvet and Wilco on The Colbert Report
- Second City?
- A Teen Is Born
- Fourteen
- I, Tony Randall
- Twin Peaks
- Help! My Daughter Is a Nazi!
- Where the Boys Are
- Degree-Happy Grandma
- Five-Oh!
Charlie & the NICU
- The Saddest News
- Charles Oliver Thomas Miller
- Praying for a Boring Day
- Mother's Day
- Charlie Rules
- Hanging In
- Chaim and Yitzchak
- DANCE BREAK!
- Ready For His Close-Up
- Vulcan Babies Don’t Cry
- Roller Coaster
- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
- Knock on Wood
- EXTUBATED!
- Reservoir Dogs
- I’m the Man Who Loves You
- It Only Takes a Moment
- Charlie's Sister
- Kangaroo Care
- Tightroping Between Denial and Catastrophe
- Mama Kangaroo
- Charlie is 50!
- Larchmont
- Torture/Surrender/Acceptance
- Father’s Day
- Up the Roller Coaster with Wilco
- Charlie & The Chairman of the Board
- A Shadow Passed
- The New Normal
- Happy Birthday, Mama Kendall!
- Surgery Update
- Five Life Lessons I Learned in the NICU
- Everything’s Coming Up Roses
- No Day But Today
- Charlie’s Favorite Magazine
- Charlie and the Matriarchs
- 100 Days!
- Small Pleasures
- Due Dates and VP Shunts
- Shunt Shmunt
- 11th-Hour Reprieve!
- Charlie Says…Love My Good-N-Plenty
- Social Butterfly
- These Vagabond Shoes Are Longing to Stray…
- Got a Ticket For My Destination
- Charlie Makes His Move!
- HOME!!
Movies
- In Praise of Sigourney Weaver
- Queen Isabella
- Trying (and Failing) to Ignore the Oscars
- Jew Eat Yet?
- Dharma on the Roof
- Delhi Platter
- Katharine Hepburn Wins 5th Oscar!
- “Herr Hitler, Your Wife Is on Line 2”
- God and the Chick Flick
- God Bless You Please, Mrs. Robinson
- I Am a Geek
- …Bothered and Bewildered
- Climb Every Mountain, Ford Every Stream
- It’s the Pictures That Got Small
- The Goebbels Experiment
- Schlepping Over the Rainbow
- 10 Good Reasons to Walk the Line
- Pay Your Damn Rent!
- The Saddest Cowboys
- My Gift to You
- The Heart Wants What It Wants
- God, I Hate the Oscars (But Dammit, I'm Hooked)
- Live from the Film Set
- Schmoozing with the Von Trapps
- The Oscars Are Killing Me
- “Oh Moses, You Stubborn, Splendid, Adorable Fool!”
- Jesus Christ, Movie Star
- The Da Vinci Load
- I Was Groped By Superman
- Mommie Dearest Revisited
- Gentleman’s Agreement
- Before Madness
- Keep A-Goin’, Robert Altman
- All You Gotta Do Is Dream
- I Made Love to Rita Hayworth
- Why Do I Still Care About the Oscars?
- Margaret Sullavan and the Nazis
- He Won’t Grow Up
- Ich Liebe Deutsche Filme!
- Oscar Pre-Show: 1957
- The Ten Best Things About the 2007 Oscars
- An Evening with the Rossellinis
- Mad Housewives of the 1970s
- “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien!”
- No Wizard Left Behind
- You Can’t Stop the Beat!
- Clinically Depressed Swedes, Vanessa Redgrave Topless, and an Irritating Laugh
- Death, Betrayal, and Insanity: Another Birthday Post
- Some Enchanted Yom Kippur
- A Hundred Million Miracles
- Warner Brothers to Women: Drop Dead!
- Falling in Love with Deborah Kerr
- War on Terror
- Oscars? What Oscars?
- Oscar Recap: Bring Back the Writers’ Strike!
- Skyping Anne Boleyn
- The Most Famous (But Forgotten) Woman in the Movies
- Dreck in the City
- Cyd Charisse's Legs
- I Was a Teenage Jesus
- Batman Burn-Out
- Fall Movie Round-Up
- Irving Brecher Was a Mensch
- And the Best Actor Oscar Goes To…
- Brad and Jen: The Movie Wars
- Final Winter Movie Round-Up
- Bad Oscar Predictions: 2009
- Oscar Pre-Show 2009
- Oscars 2009: My Personal Best!
- Valentino: The Last Emperor
- Charlie Laughs at the Oscars
- Oscar Death Shroud
- Oscars 2010: The Ten Commandments
- Sing-Along Sophie’s Choice
- Insanity in the Warsaw Ghetto, Hollywood, Our Schools, the Streets of Brazil, and the Military
- Oscar Predictions: 2011
- Revisiting the Oscars: More Predictions
- Oscar Barricade
- 2011 Oscars Telecast: FAIL!
- Hanging Out with George Cukor
Celebrity Obituaries
- Arthur Miller
- Sir John Mills
- Prince Rainier
- Rosa Parks
- Don Knotts
- Wendy, Betty, and Coretta
- Maureen Stapleton
- June Allyson
- Robert Altman
- Gerald Ford
- Yvonne De Carlo
- Charles Nelson Reilly
- Mr. Wizard
- Beverly Sills
- Brett Somers
- Deborah Kerr
- Heath Ledger
- Bill Idelson & Lois Nettleton
- Suzanne Pleshette
- Margaret Truman
- Sydney Pollack, Earle Hagen, Harvey Korman
- Dick Martin
- Cyd Charisse
- George Carlin & Dody Goodman
- Evelyn Keyes
- Paul Newman
- Irving Brecher
- Eartha Kitt
- Van Johnson
- Odetta
- Ricardo Montalban
- Natasha Richardson
- Bea Arthur
- Ted Kennedy
- Eunice Kennedy
- Soupy Sales
- Jennifer Jones
- Jean Simmons
- Kathryn Grayson
- Peter Graves
- Meinhardt Raabe (Coroner of Munchkinland)
- Dennis Hopper
- Gary Coleman
- Lynn Redgrave
- Rue McClanahan
- Patricia Neal
- Tony Curtis
- Jill Clayburgh
- Blake Edwards & Neva Patterson
- Sargent Shriver
- Anne Francis
- Betty Garrett
- Jane Russell
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Sydney Lumet
- Betty Ford
TV & Pop Culture
- Meet Me at the Fair
- My Family in Virginia
- We’re Gonna Teach You to Fly High!
- E-Ticket
- Six Feet Over
- Fade to White
- Isadora Was the First Bra Burner
- You Can’t Always Get What You Want
- Touching the Face of God
- Barney Fife, Mentor
- Anne Frank in Hollywood
- American Girl Jihad
- Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose
- The Sun’ll Come Out…
- Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I’m Kvelling, Tomorrow…
- From Brooklyn Heights to Walton’s Mountain
- Lily Munster vs Morticia Addams
- Congrats, Hank and Annie!
- Remembering Judy Resnik
- Come On People Now, Smile On Your Brother
- Obsessed with the Sixties—Part 2
- Pine Valley Confidential
- Lost in Time: 1967
- “Trix Are for Kids!”
- My Rival, Charles Nelson Reilly
- Bob Barker for President
- Brett Somers
- Getting Stoned with Bea Arthur
- Arlene Francis Saves My Mother’s Life
- Suzanne Pleshette
- Bill Idelson & Lois Nettleton
- Live from New York...
- …It’s Saturday Night!
- Mother Lode
- The Best Show on TV
- Sock It to Me?
- Bozo’s Circus is On the Air!
- We’ve Got Magic To Do
- Bea Arthur
Celebrity Musings
- Shirley Temple Revisited
- Sad Jessica Lange
- A Brand New Day
- Get Happy
- Catwoman and Me
- My Loving Parents: Pat and Roald
- Your Dog Is Dead
- Women with Regrets
- Jennifer Aniston Is Controlling My Brain
- Liv Ullmann’s Face
- Marilyn Monroe's Blog
- My Favorite Right-Wing Republican
- Imagine There’s No Heaven
- Queen of the World
- Nate n'Al's
- Forgive Me, Scarlett Johansson
- That Broad Could Act!
- Betty Garrett "Sings All Over"
- Apology Not Accepted, Mel Gibson
- Dead is the New Alive
- Jewish American Diva
- Stalker
- Fox News Hits a New Low
- The Truman Show
- In Defense of Thelma Ritter
- Celebrity R.I.P.
- Free Brigitte Bardot!
- Celebrity Deaths: Connecting the Dots
- Sinatra Goes Gangsta
- Scarlett O’Hara’s Disgruntled Sister Haunts My Blog
- Young Paul Newman
- Remembering Odetta
- ¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Rosita Alverío!
- Van Johnson Inflames My OCD
- Eartha Kitt, CIA Target
- Buena Suerte, Ricardo
- Natasha Richardson
- Patti Smith Does Debby Boone
- Debbie Reynolds’ Last Laugh (and Cry)
Politics & Race
- Shirley Chisholm for President
- I Heart Amy Carter
- I Shoulda Been a Shriver
- Deep Throat for Kids
- The Loudness of Silence
- Garbo Talks, Roberts Doesn't
- Thoroughly Modern Miers
- What’s Alito’s Favorite Movie?
- Off the Bus
- High School in Black and White
- “You Are the Un-Americans”
- Wendy, Betty, and Coretta
- Gays Are the New Jews
- Hitler’s Birthday
- And Jupiter Aligns with Mars
- George W. Bush Is Not the Anti-Christ
- My Solution for the Mideast Conflict
- The Stench of Hypocrisy
- Coming of Age with Gerald Ford
- Mother Courage
- Happy National Sanctity of Human Life Day!
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Upset Your Voter Base
- Haman and Ann Coulter: Two Peas in a Pod
- When Does Loyalty Become Stupidity?
- Don’t Vote for the Guy in the Red Tie
- National Turkey
- Support Our Troops™
- One Reason Not to Not Vote for Hillary
- Up in Smoke
- President Bush’s Enormous Sacrifice
- Ted Kennedy, Junior Senator
- Democrats and Republicans: Be Careful Where You Sling That Mud!
- Gay Marriage: The Musical
- My Impact on the 2008 Presidential Election
- Biden His Time
- Live Blogging Bill Clinton at the Democratic Convention
- Rating the First Ladies
- Republicans and Gays: WTF?
- Vote NO on Prop 8!
- We Pause for a Brief Message from the 1908 Presidential Campaign
- Election 2008: The Morning After
- 45 Years Later…
- How Many Illinois Governors Does It Take…
- The Last Day!
- Inauguration Day
- “One Third of a Nation”
- France Apologizes to Jews (Yawn)
- Shut Up!
- Hitler’s Birthday (in Color)
Religion
- Golda, Golda
- The Jewish Mrs. Millers
- Remember
- Santa Monica Über Alles
- Praying in Technicolor
- Let Nothing You Dismay
- Stamp Out Santa
- Happy New Year to Our Jewish Friends…Who Don’t Exist
- One Punk Under God
- Let My People Floss
- Jews, Don’t Fail Me Now
- Days of Repentance
- Tevye Never Had It So Good
- The Stoner Chasid
- O Chanukah, O Hanukkah
- Patti LuPone Sings Kol Nidre!
- Kristallnacht: 70 Years Later
- Jew Decorate Yet?
- The Jewish Response to the Economic Crisis
- A Hanukkah Pitch