With global overpopulation neatly intertwining with the advent of the home video camera, we have been afforded, as a species, several near-miracles. For instance, when supersonic jets explode, or when mobs impolitely loot and riot in urban centers, the common consumer can now document the event and sell it to the networks for our collective edification. Endless streams of…
Meet the Parents has just enough class to make for Prestige Pop: Robert De Niro as star, Randy Newman as composer, Blythe Danner as wallpaper, Ben Stiller as schmuck. It has just enough “comedy” to qualify as a crowd-pleaser: sight gags (Stiller chasing a cat across a roof before setting fire to an entire lawn), verbal gags (Stiller explains…
We Love the Nightlife Groove is in the heart: I’ve lived a lot of places. Seattle, Phoenix, L.A., NYC … and even a few cowtowns (literally) in between, and KC is the only one I know of that has a MAJOR entertainment district nestled into an otherwise residential neighborhood. I have to agree with Bruce Rodgers’ article “Move the Clubs”…
Panties in a wad: Missouri politics reached thrilling new heights last week thanks to Republican Party spokesman Daryl Duwe, who wrote on his Web site that State Auditor Claire McCaskill “let the Democrats parade her around like a cheap hooker” in the governor’s race. Duwe’s statements endowed The Kansas City Star with the most exciting material of the campaign season….
Robert Lile’s marriage fell apart back in 1982. He and his 2-year-old daughter moved in with his parents in Belton. During the day, he installed insulation in homes, and in his free time he coached a community soccer team at Blue Valley Park. One day, the then-25-year-old Lile says, he met a pretty high school senior at the park. Lile…
Phil Hedrick was a talker, and it was with charmed verbosity that the 38-year-old bachelor found a way to lasso his future wife, Gaela, a three-time divorcée with four children and a history of bad marriages. “I didn’t want anything to do with him,” Gaela remembers. “But I thought he was nice and he talked a good talk. He talked…
