The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.

Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.

The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.