William Friedkin, a filmmaker whose gritty, visceral model and fascination with characters on the sting helped make “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist” two… Read More

Bozo Bucket Bonanza–Grand Prize Game One of my favorite parts of WGN-TV’s Bozo the Clown show was when Bob Bell, aka. Bozo the Clown, would do the Bozo Grand Prize Game… Read More

In 1980 Toni Morrison sat down to write her one and only short story, “Recitatif.” The fact that there is only one Morrison short story seems of a piece with her œuvre. The… Read More

Have you ever heard a phrase like “I have won 1k” or “the prize money is 10k”, etc? You might have heard this type of phrase from your family members, friends, or any… Read More

The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items could vary, as could the subjec… Read More

As parents, most of us annoyingly start saying the same nagging things to our kids that our parents said to us. My current favorite: Shut the door; were you born in a barn? (I had no idea wh… Read More

We are where nostalgia lives Do you remember watching Bozo’s Circus? It was a children’s television show that was produced in Chicago, IL from 1961-2001. Sadly, the last survivi… Read More

  Directed by: Jay Levey Starring: ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, Victoria Jackson, and Kevin McCarthy UHF Movie Summary Once upon a time, before there was cable TV – before sat… Read More