4 Underrated Drug Movies
Go Oh, Go -- you are, to me, a true 90s masterpiece ("Semi Charmed Life" on the soundtrack! Jokes about Mazda Miata's!). Directed by a post-Swingers, pre-Bourne Doug Lyman, Go can make any victim of...
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Your Survival Guide for SF's Outside Lands Festival
How to make the most of San Francisco's three-day summer music festival By Grant Marek for Where® For three days every year, two famous vintage wooden windmills and 180,000 people turn San Francisco's...
View ArticleRequiem for a Therapist: A Tribute to Robin Williams
Like so many others, I was saddened to hear of the death of actor and comedian, Robin Williams that was made public Monday. To hear that his death was at the end of a life-long battle with depression...
View ArticleMork Calling Orson: My Time With Robin Williams
In 2004, I was working in a fabulous jazz club here in New York. When we first opened, each of the staff named a celebrity whom we would love to meet at the club. According to our agreement, if that...
View ArticleO Captain My Captain
The summer after I finished high school I came to New York with my mother. I'd been to New York a handful of times before, usually to visit relatives, and it never failed to amaze me. I grew up in...
View ArticleRobin Williams and the Generations That Grew With Him
I was finishing a run in the park when I heard the news. An old man walking his Schnauzer yelled to a couple of grey-haired gentleman sitting on a bench, picking through the day's Times. I'd seen these...
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A 75th Anniversary This Month: The Wizard of Oz!
In honor of its 75th anniversary, my co-author, William Stillman, of the new compendium The Wizard of Oz: The Official 75th Anniversary Companion, and I look back at some of the origins of what is...
View Article'It's Not Your Fault': Jesus, Forgiveness and the Life of Robin Williams
One of the hardest things for people to do is forgive themselves, especially when they have been hurt and harmed by others. Harm done to you wounds you deeply, and can convince you that you deserved...
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High Praise for Robin Williams
So much has already been said here and elsewhere mourning the death of Robin Williams and celebrating his incredible talents and humanity, that I will not even try to add to it, except to say that, as...
View ArticleUnder Our Skin
I was shocked and deeply saddened when my daughter, who happened to be checking her phone about something else and stumbled onto a tweet, announced at the dinner table last night that Robin Williams...
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Folks Festival Flight of Fancy: The Stray Birds Reach for the Sky
It's not their first trip to Lyons, Colorado, but Oliver Craven, Maya de Vitry and Charles Muench are preparing a feel-good story for first-class delivery to the three-day Rocky Mountain Folks Festival...
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Robin Williams: An Agent Of Change On Many Levels
Courtesy: HBO Robin Williams. So much will be written about the man in the coming days in the aftermath of his sudden death on Monday. Mr. Williams was a legend after all; a resilient actor and a...
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Comic Genius Robin Williams, Open Heart Surgery and Depression
Robin Williams "has been battling severe depression," his publicist Mara Buxbaum said in a statement. Suspected of taking his own life on Monday at his home in Marin County, California, Mr. Williams...
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MasterChef Recap: You're Prawns Are Raw in 'Top Ten Compete'
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 5, Episode 12 of FOX's "MasterChef," titled "Top 10 Compete." I think it was Victoria who said she felt sick to her stomach and I have to agree with...
View ArticleYou WiIll Be Missed, Robin Williams
Hearing about the death of Robin Williams has awakened many thoughts in my head. It is a huge loss to not just the entertainment world, but to the world in general. It is because his roles always made...
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Remembering the Go-Go Boys
Menahem Golan -- half of the Go-Go Boys team that stormed Hollywood in the 1980s and departed in disgrace -- just died in Israel at age 85 of natural causes. I'm struck how obituaries mostly don't...
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We'll Never Know What Really Killed Robin Williams
I don't know Robin Williams, but like everyone else, I feel like I did. So when I heard the news that he had died of an apparent suicide, I cried. I was sad for me, I was sad for all of us, and I was...
View ArticleEmbracing the Darkness: A Weird and Wonderful Chat With the Amazing Aubrey Plaza
I'm somewhere near Topanga Canyon, in an Alice in Wonderland-themed bar, drinking Chimay with an extraordinary woman who tells me she dreamed of becoming a ballerina as a child, but her parents...
View ArticleInvestors Not As Encouraged With Home Flipping As Television
Fixer Upper. Flip This House. Flip or Flop. With the superfluous demand for television shows exposing the business of house flipping, it comes as a surprise that in the "real world" the demand is not...
View ArticleRobin Williams and the Perils of Depression
When someone like Robin Williams takes his own life, it's a stunning reminder of how powerful emotional anguish can be. It's a reminder that profound emotional pain can occur in the talented, the...
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