The too-small house is more cramped than ever. That’s because, for one, the attic is empty. Everything that resided over our heads for years is around our ankles as we prepare for a move, and as the house prepares for a new owner. If you’re in the market, it’s the one with the inch-high plastic…
DetailsARLINGTON — I was touring the new Cowboys Stadium here along with Roger Staubach. He was in awe. Actually, he didn’t tell me as much. He didn’t tell me anything, to be exact. But, really: Anyone with eyes, ears and spatial acuity would be in awe. Staubach has those. And Staubach wasn’t actually beside me. We media…
DetailsThe first time TV regularly shared Walter Cronkite’s history-changing voice, he was a clumsy-looking bystander. Not his fault. Everything about CBS’s “You Are There” was clunky. In black and white, it took us to relive moments in history on sets every bit as authentic as Flash Gordon’s spaceship. When Cronkite became America’s preeminent newsman and…
Details“Men are so strange,” said my wife, as Barack Obama made the ceremonial first pitch before the All-Star Game. She was remarking on the fact that Obama, so as not to shame himself by winging it up into the stands, had taken a few practice pitches in a subterranean batting cage. “Why would men worry…
DetailsDick Cheney, meet Oliver North. Donald Rumsfeld, meet Caspar Weinberger. George W. Bush, meet Ronald Reagan — he who, knowingly or not, presided over a rogue operation that resulted in 11 criminal convictions in the Iran-Contra scandal. Eric Holder, meet Elliott Richardson. Richardson was the attorney general who refused to fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox…
DetailsHis credentials say “FBI,” but the rap sheet for Lovett Leslie Ledger Jr. says “one sick puppy.” He may claim to have had his head on straight when he used an air rifle to plug a tiny dog. He may claim that what he did is not so demented as to preclude him from carrying…
DetailsUpon hearing of Michael Jackson’s death, two pained sensations struck me: The first was sadness over creative brilliance being snuffed. The second was the knowledge that our celebrity construction/deconstruction machine was about to perform up to its usual, um, standards. And what a bravura performance it has been. I know this and I have abided…
Details“You have no right to remain silent. You have no right against self-incrimination. No attorney shall be appointed for you. Don’t like it? Who asked you?” Such are the court-tested Miranda warnings for the lab animals otherwise known as students. But at least one civil right now is affixed for students— the right not to…
DetailsFew athletes have had better college careers than Curtis Jerrells. For four years, he started every game at Baylor University, leading the team in scoring and assists each year. No one could watch this fearless floor leader from Austin’s Del Valle High and not project him in a pro uniform. No one, that is, except…
DetailsAudie Murphy had the kind of face you find on a baby shampoo bottle. He was every grandma’s grandson. So, after World War II, Hollywood wanted a crack at one of history’s most heavily decorated American soldiers. Among the amazing things about this man’s story is that, at least on the set, he didn’t crack.…
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