MY LIFE WITH ALI MACGRAW
The passing of Ali MacGraw's ‘Love Story’ co-star Ryan O’Neal left us all with a nostalgic appreciation of the heartthrobs whose heartbreak ending sent the country out of theaters in tears to...
Author: Bob Vickrey
BOB VICKREY is a writer whose columns have appeared in several Southwestern newspapers including the Houston Chronicle. He is a member of the Board of Contributors for the Waco Tribune-Herald and was cited by the California Newspaper Publishing Association for column writing awards in 2016 and 2017. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California.
LARRY MCMURTRY: THE ‘MINOR REGIONAL NOVELIST’ WORTHY OF THE NOBEL PRIZE
‘Terms of Endearment’ followed ‘The Last Picture Show’ with great fanfare, but it was his Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Lonesome Dove’ that cemented his legacy as one of America’s best...
The Daunting Curse of Historians Will and Ariel Durant
I read about the bookseller in Long Beach that had become trapped when the shelves in his store collapsed on top of him. I didn’t need to ask which books fell on him. I already imagined that he...
To Live and Drive in LA
I KNEW THIS DAY WOULD EVENTUALLY arrive that would require a dreaded in-person visit to the Department of Motor Vehicles — a premise that Stephen King should have considered as a theme for...
FINDING NOVELTY IN THE LIFESTYLE OF OUR TOWN’S JAY GATSBY
Like Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” narrator Nick Carraway, I live directly across the street from the exclusive turf of another extravagantly wealthy businessman — Rick Caruso's Palisades...
LET US NOW PRAISE DAVID MCHAM
The Last Newspaper Reader in America My college journalism professor demanded such dedication in pursuit of accuracy and definitive facts on each assignment that I still hold the profession in much...
‘The Polar Express’ Christmas Classic Nears 40
When I was a young boy growing up in the suburbs of southeast Houston, every Christmas Eve I would sneak out onto our screened front porch and stare into the night sky as I tried to spot Santa’s...
Memories of Ringo and the Carson ‘Tonight Show’ Green Room
Britt Ekland opened her dressing room door and grabbed my arm. She stood in the doorway clad only from the waist down, while holding her blouse close to her chest and leaving little to my...