Michael Moriarty

The Chicago Black Sox might appear to be about as American a corruption as possible. Highly recent testimony to Chicago’s immortally blackened reputation, however, is here. God bless Ann Coulter!! Furthermore, after having channel-hopped two of the United States’ greatest

It is splendid how Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech” is not only a double-edged sword but a spear-studded cannonball for world freedom as well. The Politico-inspired loud-mouthing about Herman Cain’s apparent indiscretion – or perhaps his avuncular bonhomie toward a

This photo of Bette Davis is, I think, the most perfect ever taken of her. Why? Because it is the most boldly complete, capturing what was most beautiful about her but also what was most dangerous: the unreleased dreams boiling

Norman Rockwell’s clearly privileged and very New York “Connoisseur” is staring at what I would call A Portrait of the Progressive New World Order. Few citizens anywhere would have a living room large enough to hang this very bloody-looking billboard

The little boy sitting with a cop in a diner could have been myself sitting with my police surgeon father on a morning of “custody fights” between my “mom” and my “dad.” I wasn’t a runaway yet. I would be.

That’s my grandfather in the middle … well … my grandfather sure looked like the home base umpire in this American classic by Norman Rockwell. George Moriarty umpired five world series. After one particularly contentious game, Big George, as I

I took a week off from my Enter Stage Right memoir, The Haunted Heaven, and this series for Big Hollywood. Why? For time to ponder how some people are losing their jobs because of their free speech. More than one

My recent observations on Christopher Hitchens received impressively varied responses. Most, however, or most of those I’ve read so far, acknowledge the vitally important test of a human being’s honesty: the presence or absence of hypocrisy. I attribute the vitality

The Bloomberg terms for this year’s 9/11 Memorial are not only wrong, they are spiritually, metaphysically and, even in Karl Marx’s terms, dialectically “unbalanced”. Bloomberg is courting an even worse disaster than 9/11. To bear false witness against God, of

Odd how many Americans can agree with Christopher Hitchens on many issues, i.e. his rage at Henry Kissinger. I sympathize totally with such disgust. The Hitchens contempt for the Tea Party, however, is the grandest dividing line, largely due to

Thanks to Big Hollywood’s Alfonzo Rachel, I witnessed an entertainment miracle going off in Phoenix, Arizona. This is my third time through the Katt Williams, flame-throwing, soul-burning comic meltdown! This is so far beyond having an audience in the palm

With the President’s address to a joint session of Congress on September 8, I expect a mildly new turn on an old Progressive tune: “America’s not going anywhere without Karl Marx & Friends!” America’s increasingly far Left academia has always

Will Sarah Palin become our next Ronald Reagan and more? Or will she remain a female Rush Limbaugh? I don’t think Sarah Palin has any alternative but to run in the 2012 Republican primary. Her clearly stated analysis of “Crony

Arnie Grape and I What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is one of my favorite films. Of all time! The cast is beyond perfect. Led by Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis and Leonardo Di Caprio, the love story that is Gilbert Grape puts

I went to University of Detroit’s Jesuit High School in Northwest Detroit. Out of all my educational experiences, those formative four years were the best and the most enduring. Matched up against four years of the Ivy League at Dartmouth

The comment section of any blog or internet site is always a re-education. Not about diversity of opinion but about the human condition itself. No matter how close two people’s opinions might seem to be, eventually there will be a

This music lesson given by Wintley Phipps is at the heart of what he stands for in the eyes of the young lost, those children of prisoners that he nurtures and fills with the amazing grace of hope. Our President

Obama’s to be “pissed-off” and Mayor Bloomberg deliberately “pisses-off” Ronald Reagan’s silent majority by excluding first reponders and clergy from the 9/11 Memorial Ceremony?! It’s beyond bizarre, it’s miraculously self-destructive on Bloomberg’s part! Not even NEW YORK will endure such

Morgan Freeman wants the President to be as “pissed off” as he is. That’s an interesting comment coming from one of America’s best actors. Morgan is a craftsman’s craftsman. I believe he represents the best of classic American acting since

The Toothless Rottweiler Big Hollywood has a fairly young audience so I don’t think the pluses and minuses of old age would much interest them. However, my self-appointed assignment here as Sarah Palin’s guard dog has brought me more than

No, he doesn’t improvise in rhyming couplets but one feels he could if it might provoke a laugh at the foolish world’s expense. One doesn’t want to be at the end of his verbal rapier. He’s already skewered the Obama

I was terrified of the prospect of a third party candidate. A three-way, split vote might very well … if the third candidate were viable and interesting … insure the re-election of the worst President in American history, Barack Obama.

As many of my readers may have noted, I follow the Gods and Godesses of piano religiously. Here, from my Memoir, Chapter Two, a glimpse of Rachmaninoff through the hands and soul of Olga Kern. However, and I speak of

Well, I certainly learned that there aren’t many opera fans among the Big Hollywood readership. The political intent of an opera that romanticizes Chou en Lai of Red China confirms the surrender of all American Arts to Marxism. From Hollywood

“The incubation period of the opera (Nixon In China) was rife with serious second-thoughts, by no less than Adams (the composer) himself, who initially resisted the proposal made by Peter Sellars (the director), a progressively radical director whose idea the

Don Mclean’s American Pie. [youtube ZPjjZCO67WI nolink] As you listen to and watch this rather miraculous musical achievement by the entire town of Grand Rapids, Michigan, ask yourself, “Is America dead yet?” Well, this 2012 video assures History that this

Barack Obama’s reelection is of primary importance to the Hollywood Left , therefore things of major Leftist import are on a bit of a hold. Firey visionaries of The Progressive New World Order are scheduled for casting their Hollywood scripts

Bill Maher’s mainly Liberal audience and their joy in The Weiner Transmissions, read verbatim by Bill Maher and Jane Lynch, made its point: “Who are you, conservative Americans, to look down on a couple of people just trying to have

Please, before you even read this article, gaze at and ponder Mark’s classically Steynian “Weiner’s Twitter Tweak“. Laughter, for myself at any rate, does not become, as they say, “side-splitting” unless there’s some metaphorical and breathtakingly abrupt fall from heaven

The entire legacy of Donny Hathaway is so divinely painful! I know of no purer elixir of Blues than the Hathaway lyrics of It’s What I Do. They are Billie Holiday’s Don’t Explain translated into bliss itself. My pen pal,

Here’s a fascinating display of Chicago’s Hometown Dissent. This clip of Louis Farrakhan verbally spanking President Obama climaxes with a truth no one on earth could disagree with: Dissatisfaction in America has reached the boiling point! Obviously, according to the

Nothing like a Hollywood film to brush up my days as a Jesuit schoolboy. Clash of The Titans is a film that has been made twice. Once with Laurence Olivier as Zeus (1981) and the second (2010) with Liam Neeson

Lincoln and Obama: Are comparisons compelling? America’s self-image – as portrayed in the brilliantly tough script of James Jones’ novel, From Here To Eternity (see article From Here To Lt. Col. Allen West) – has been, I believe, criminally shattered

Nothing so reinforces the essential integrity of the American character than another viewing of the American Classic, “From Here To Eternity.” Seen through contemporary eyes, it looks like an extended examination of Lt. Col Allen West’s entire experience with the

Saw The Devil’s Advocate for the third time the other night. No one in film has so dissected and anatomized diabolical corpi with more dedication and precision than Al Pacino. Not even the combined forces of Martin Scorcese and the

According to myth, because of his refusal to obey the Sphinx, Oedipus The King became a symbol of death and disgrace for everyone and everything he touched. After killing his father (patricide), he witnessed his own mother/wife’s suicide and then