Hands of Marcel Cerdan
Are these the hands of a gentleman? Or a man licensed to kill who hung…
Author Eric Ehrmann
Spanish Eyes… Penelope Cruz
In a culture that’s passionate about action expressions like surrealism, bullfighting and flamenco it helps…
Danny Boy
You might hear what seems to sound like a quintessentially Irish ballad being sung by…
Whisky Rock-A-Roller
If your favorite beer is cold, your favorite music is loud and you like your…
Joseph Heller’s Catch-22
I used to hang out some in Guaymas, Mexico during the early 1970s. There was…
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Inner-city race issues turned my home town of Cleveland, Ohio into a war zone during…
Whisky For Breakfast
Editor’s Note: This song should not be confused with a very popular instrumental song called “Whisky…
Stamboul: The Crossroads of the World
Storytellers were calling this mysterious crossroads of Europe and The Orient the economic center of…
From Cannes to the Supreme Court… Jeanne Moreau
The more we look at French cinema the more we learn about the underground culture…
For Those We Honor: The Navy Hymn
“The Navy Hymn” offers a reminder that there is a free world and a not…
Final Take Five for Dave Brubeck
Like most young teens who grew up in America’s rock and roll capital, I had…
American Pie
Back in 1954, when Elvis broke big and deejay Alan Freed coined the term rock…
Poncho & Lefty Hook Up With Bobby McGee
Although fans and song pluggers consider “Poncho & Lefty” one of American music’s most famous…
The Hat Trick and The Hat Trick Quiz
Editor’s Note: If you are brave, skip to the end of the post and take…
Eye On The Prize…Althea Gibson
Five years before the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his legendary “I Have a Dream”…
The Steinbrenners
In a town were sports talk is as competitive as pro sports and media firestorms…
She’s Different… Rooney Mara
In a world where family matters more and more, millennial actress Rooney Mara, whose family…
Rye Whiskey
Bet you a dram you wouldn’t guess that the cowboy seeking solace on his donkey…
A Horse and The Lady… Fiona Campbell-Walker
Wrigley Gum heiress and horse rescuer Helen Rosburg coined the phrase, “when Wrigley women get depressed…
Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan, Master of the Craft
Running the timeline of storytelling, it’s fair to say that American fiction writing owes much…
Whiskey River
Whisky and freedom are as American as mother and apple pie and listening to this…
From Vampire Girl to Bond Girl… Ashley Greene
Ursula Andress came out of nowhere to star as a Bond girl opposite Sean Connery…
The French Franc… Charles Aznavour
The name Maurice Chevalier rolls across the tongue like a sip of Vintage Camus. But…
Three On A Match… Yves Montand
When Dambier captured this debonair gentleman and his entourage, the name Yves was more popular…
Body Heat… Kathleen Turner
Before the wisdom of crowds voted her one of the world’s sexiest women, Kathleen Turner…
The First Bond Girl… Ursula Andress
A beautiful fatherless child, Ursula Andress left the boredom of Bern, Switzerland to seek her…
The Frivolous Prince… Jean Cocteau
Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the phrase “the rich are different” while hanging out with…
And God Created Woman… Brigitte Bardot
Many nations still use the faces of kings and queens on their coinage and currency.…
A Walk On The Wild Side… Capucine
Jack Nicholson and Capucine, the dazzling beauty in the Dambier photograph here, both liked Charlie Feldman’s…
The Mannings
Of all the quarterbacks who powered the Golden Era that launched the Super Bowl, NFL…