As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Enola Gay`s mission and the birth of the atomic age, Hiroshima has been on the minds in the media. Recently, Time and...
Every other summer, it seems that one of the major networks gets sand in its corporate shoes and tries to throw a beach party. Unfortunately, most summertime viewers come away...
First of all, you`re either a sucker for this whodunit stuff or you`re not. You prowl the bookstalls waiting for the latest in detective fiction from Elmore Leonard and Robert...
Jane Byrne has me thinking about commercials. I mean, there`s nothing else on network television during the summer. I don`t know when Max Robinson is coming back, and when I...
''We`ve got all kinda pills that give us all kinda thrills, but the thrill we`ve never known, ''Is the thrill that`ll getcha when you get your picture on the cover...
Boom. Nobody likes that sound better than American business. The running boom. The fast-food boom. The cable-television boom. The bottled-water boom. The personal-computer boom. The boom business can make you...
If you watch ''Vietnam: Op/Ed--An Inside Story Special'' at 8 p.m. Wednesday on WTTW-Ch. 11, if you can endure the long march through agitprop and nit-picking and tortured sensibilities, you`re...
There was only that one picture, the oddly melancholy photograph of Karen Ann Quinlan that appeared in her high-school yearbook more than a decade ago. It was the picture that...
Television and the movies are in the business of showing us the way we live and work. At least, they`re in the business of showing us a Wilshire Boulevard-perspective on...
There was a moment near the end of the 1985 Chicago Emmy Awards fandango Monday night when McLean Stevenson, the program`s host, gathered the trophy holders around him for pictures....