By Jack Silbert on January 19, 2017
4 stars out of 5 Since 1991, I’d seen 24 of the previous 25 Woody Allen films in the theater. (For you trivia nerds: Melinda and Melinda) And in the past handful of years, I’ve enjoyed a ritual of seeing Woody’s annual summer release. In the dark, air-conditioned theater, it was like taking a little […]
Posted in movie reviews | Tagged 10s movies, Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Woody Allen
By Jack Silbert on January 16, 2017
This weekend, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced that after 146 years, they’d be folding up the tents and coming to town no more. It was pretty shocking news to see. The circus just seemed like one of those forever things. But I guess forever ain’t what it used to be. When I […]
Posted in personal history | Tagged Gunther Gebel-Williams, New York, Oakland, P.T. Barnum, Pittsburgh, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
By Jack Silbert on January 13, 2017
ABC News White House correspondent Jon Karl… …and former MDA Telethon hostess Jann Carl.
Posted in separated at birth | Tagged ABC News, David Muir, Jann Carl, Jerry Lewis, Jon Karl, MDA
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