This week is the official 51st birthday of Mattel’s world-famous Barbie doll. The dolls have changed a lot since their creation in 1959, and have served as a (sometimes controversial) social barometer ever since. It can’t be denied that Barbie is a style icon! As a way of celebrating, Mattel is selling the “2010 SuperStar [...]

Okay, okay. They can’t include everybody who died. But the Oscars left out two memorable American icons in its yearly tribute to the departed: Farrah Fawcett and Bea Arthur. The legends of both Farrah and Bea are not to be forgotten and nothing to sneeze at. Morgan Freeman, voice-over [...]

When I was in college, I camped out for Tina Turner tickets and then, at the concert, got backstage because my date was a South Carolina beauty queen. There are few figures in the history of rock ‘n roll as important as Tina. Born Anna Mae Bullock in a small town in Tennessee, [...]

Fred Morrison, former World War II veteran and inventor of the iconic Frisbee, passed away on Tuesday. Morrison got his start playing with cake pans on the beach, and eventually sold his toy idea to Wham-O, where it almost instantly became a terrific hit. Hundreds of millions of Frisbees have been sold since, and the [...]

Betty White we love you! Besides having the top rated Super Bowl ad (an all out tackle of Betty White!?) on USA TODAY’s Ad Meter She’s one of my all-time celebrity game show guest favorites! But look at her in this sexy number on Match Game! Wowza. Now, there’s a new Facebook [...]

Winner of the “Where you’d love to park an Airstream” contest is Sandy, who wrote:
“why park it anywhere- travel and discover the beauty of the outdoors and well as the people and food of North America. Hit garage sales up and have fun going here and there and not having a care in the [...]

Elvis would have turned 75 this month. One of my favorite songs was “Hound Dog,” and one of my favorite performances was Elvis and the basset hound on the Steve Allen show in 1956. Michael Riedel at the New York Post recently pointed out the performance in an interesting article. I love the legend [...]

Yesterday at #Sundance, I sat through the “live” documentary film “Utopia,” a rather egotistical experiment of a movie “unlike all other movies” in that it can be only one place at a time with filmmaker Sam Green and musician Dave Cerf. The two things I took away from the film: Victor Gruen [...]

Happy birthday to Dolly Parton!!! Every time I see or hear her, it brings a schoolboy grin to my face. There’s nothing more fun than putting a little Dolly in your day. Especially this version, which looks like my office most days. But, hopefully, it doesn’t sound like your 9 to [...]

Hats off on this January day to the peaceful principles and progressive messages of Martin Luther King, Jr. Today is a holiday perhaps to ponder what we might do to help others and spread Dr. King’s message of peace. In that tradition, if you’d like to donate to help our brothers and sisters [...]