There’s a scene in this film where John C. Reilly’s Dean Ziegler implores Ed Helms’s Tim Lippe to trust him.  Once you’re a friend of Deansy Ziegler, you’re a friend for life, your secrets are safe. I was intrigued by the reviews.  I rarely go to the movies anymore, I can wait to watch five […]

Everybody knows you’ve got to have an iPad app. But the L.A. "Times" doesn’t have one.  That’s what happens when you focus on the bottom line instead of the future, you get left behind. Oh, there’s a $1.99 iPhone app, but that’s like watching on a tiny cathode ray TV when there’s HD.  Something that […]

We went to the Anne Frank house.  I was there once before, back in ’72 as Bob Seger would say, but it was different.  They had flat screens and quotes and…the diary itself. I didn’t remember that. It almost didn’t seem real.  The house, that is.  It’s half a century later.  I was calculating.  In […]

I like street food.  Sure, it’s fun to lounge in a high-end restaurant, savoring the victuals, but who’s got the time?  Just think, you can buy a morsel of mouthwatering food right on the street and go on your merry way, barely missing a beat, and it’s cheap! But not everything’s mouthwatering.  How do you […]