ArmchairGM (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
When I heard the Yankees had a new star player earlier today, I wasn't even remotely surprised, until I read who it was. It was Mr. Billy Crystal, the guy who hosts the Oscars, who starred in City Slickers and produced 61*, one of the best baseball movies ever made. Hearing that Billy Crystal is
View From The Pundy House (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
In the winter of 1960 after my father died we fled to Scotland. My mother, who suffered from an acute psychiatric condition, couldn't cope on her own and we went to live with her sister in a small farm cottage deep in rural East Lothian where my uncle worked as a farm labourer. I was twelve years old. I left behind all my friends in Tilbury in Essex, the kids in the gang, roller skating on the broad...
dovegreyreader scribbles (Free subscription) | 09/26/2007
A beautiful new edition of a favourite book arrived last week, The Snow Goose by Paul Gallico and with illustrations by an even more favourite artist Angela Barratt.If I'm honest it's an artist's style I will recognise often at the...
The Eagle (Free subscription) | 09/09/2007
Love old or unusual movies but never know when they're on? Here are four to watch this week:
