The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in a luxurious bubble in which their best friends are their trainer, their hairdresser, their publicist, and their Kabbalah instructor.

In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance. This book reminds me of one of the joys of being an adult-cocktail hour!

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.