How Did the Giants Win the Pennant, Anyway?

by | Jun 19, 2013 | David Krell

1951 was supposed to be the Dodgers’ year, a vengeance-filled riposte of burgeoning against the baseball fates that determined the previous year’s National League pennant go to the Philadelphia Phillies on the last day of the 1950 season.  The paradigm repeated as...

Paul Newman’s World Series Pranks and Franks

by | May 9, 2013 | David Krell

As dusk anticipated relieving the sun of its duties during the twilight of October 3, 1956, Paul Newman hustled through the stage entrance of the Mansfield Theatre, an august Broadway institution on West 47th Street in Manhattan.  Yes, that Paul Newman. Newman was...

Origins: “The Dick Van Dyke Show”

by | Apr 30, 2013 | David Krell

Carl Reiner created The Dick Van Dyke Show as a parallel to his own life as a television comedy writer.  Indeed, Reiner initially played the main character, Robert Petrie, in a failed television pilot. CBS rejected the pilot, Head of the Family, but aired it as part...

Yeats Must Have Been In A College Fraternity

by | Jul 27, 2012 | David Krell

Last night, more than 40 middle-aged men gathered at a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan as the skies threatened a downpour but delivered humidity instead. The purpose for the gathering was simple. The bond, singular. Fraternity boys grown into men, their hair a little...