For decades voted one of the top two films of all time, for my money Casablanca long ago beat out Citizen Kane as history’s Best Movie Ever. Audience reviewers at RottenTomatoes.com appear to agree, too -- giving Casablanca 95% approval to Kane's 90%. The screenplay...
It’s one of history’s best movie scenes. And not a word is spoken. It’s even a children’s movie. In the animated Pixar film Up (98% on RottenTomatoes.com), an adventurous but financially strapped young couple has dreams of someday going to a mythical Paradise Falls in...
A couple of women who’d just seen the extraordinary new organ transplant movie Ordinary Angels were overheard comparing the intensity of their crying, which one claimed was “throat-hurting.” She said her husband, who’d already exited the theater, perhaps to conceal his own tears,...
Corona beer’s slogan “Find Your Beach” is an ingenious invitation to get in touch with your bucket list passions and what brings you satisfaction and relaxation. It's Find Your Beach soul-searching. Even taken literally, the slogan speaks to me: As a Kansas boy, I...
Ask yourself: What makes a sporting event one of the best in the world? And you just might conclude it's Augusta's Masters golf tournament. First, of course, is the magnitude of it – the caliber of players, the importance of it to the sport....
There’s something deeply moving about Austria to begin with, and Vienna in particular. It truly does something magical to you. It’s like the scene in the movie The Family Man. Through divine intervention, Nicolas Cage’s rich, single character gets a glimpse, George Bailey-like, into...
Are you itching to see the world now that the COVID-19 pandemic is a bad memory? You’re in good company, especially since Baby Boomer retirements skyrocketed in 2020: Some 28.6 million Baby Boomers – those born between 1946 and 1964 – reported retiring just...
By necessity I buy affordable wines, usually below $40, but I can tell you with absolute authority that no wine I’ve ever shared with others has ever earned the rave reviews that Cooper & Thief red blend has. The reason: it’s aged in bourbon...
Do you like quirky? How about Will Ferrell as the straight man, and Dustin Hoffman the comic relief? That’s the ingenious pairing in the sleeper movie Stranger than Fiction, one of the smartest, quirkiest films you’ll ever see. Ferrell plays a reclusive IRS auditor...
Love gave birth to BestEverBuzz.com. That, and a big old glass of chocolate milk. There I was, enjoying a glass of chocolate milk alone in my kitchen on a Saturday morning. I thought to myself, “This has to be the best chocolate milk in...
