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Brilliant and Tragic Lives Brilliant and Tragic Lives Pollack, Krasner, de Kooning and other artists – captives of alcohol Four artists, who advanced the abstract expressionism movement that put New York on the international art map in the early 20th Century, came together in that special period as friends, lovers, promoters, competitors – and captives of alcohol. By J. Roger Guilfoyle The Museum of Modern Art in New York is exhibiting a lifetime of work by the Dutch born, American artist/sculptor Willem de...
The Prohibition Era: When Drinking America Hid Its Bottles The Prohibition Era: When Drinking America Hid Its Bottles 05/10/2011 BY KURT BROKAW “Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition” by Daniel Okrent (Scribners 2010) “The Struggle” Directed by D.W. Griffith (1931) (DVD by...
Book Review: Red by Sammy Hagar Book Review: Red by Sammy Hagar 05/10/2011 REVIEWED BY TOM SINCLAIR Sammy Hagar is not in recovery. Sure, the 63-year-old rocker knows a thing or two about excess. This is, after all, the guy who wrote and sang the 1984...
Broadway Unbound Broadway Unbound 05/02/2011 BY LESLEY LOGAN Being clean and sober for 24 hours is a miracle by any addict’s standards. As the days, months and years unfold, you hear about the promises; you hear that...
Two Women Teetering Two Women Teetering 03/27/2011 By Kurt Brokaw Up on the big screen, chronic female alcoholics do the same stupid, dangerous things as guys. They steal inedible ears of corn from urban LA street gardens (Faye...
Progress Not Perfection Progress Not Perfection 03/24/2011 “Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction,” by Lance Dodes, MD (Harper Paperbacks, March, 2011) Reviewed by Charles M. Young Designed so the average...
Troubled Relations In 2 Hollywood Classics Troubled Relations In 2 Hollywood Classics 01/13/2011 The two best-remembered films of alcoholism of the 20th century are “The Lost Weekend” and “Days of Wine and Roses.” The first concludes with a repaired relationship and...
Together Editors Review A Few of Our Favorite Books Together Editors Review A Few of Our Favorite Books 12/07/2010 Shantaram By Gregory David Roberts (Scribe Publications) A richly-detailed, fictional account of an escaped Australian convict who finds a home in the slums of Bombay. Roberts’...
The Truth and Lies About Mad Men The Truth and Lies About Mad Men 11/10/2010 By Kurt Brokaw Poor Don Draper. We’re deep into the fourth season of AMC’s Emmy-winning “Mad Men” (AMC, Sundays, 10:00 p.m. EST), and Don’s drinking is on a...
Craig Ferguson Talks Straight Craig Ferguson Talks Straight 11/01/2010 By David Blacklock Backstage at Carnegie Hall The world of late night television is generally an orgy of cliché. Cookie-cutter white guys in business suits tell the same...
10 Best Films About Alcoholism & Addiction 10 Best Films About Alcoholism & Addiction 09/13/2010 1. Days of Wine and Roses(1962) Alcoholic PR exec Jack Lemmon pulls his wife (Lee Remick, her finest performance) into alcoholism. He finds AA, she doesn’t. Hollywood’s...
Addicted To Addiction TV Addicted To Addiction TV 09/03/2010 Most networks have experimented with addiction television – a heartbreaking Movie of the Week, some righteous anti-drug crusade, any news of Lindsay Lohan – but in...
The Millionth Word The Millionth Word 07/20/2010 After reading that Oprah has apologized for rebuking James Frey, I want to take another look at "A Million Little Pieces," Frey's controversial memoir about drug addiction that...
Creating Order Out Of Chaos Creating Order Out Of Chaos 07/20/2010 Lost keys. Deadlines missed. Dishes piled high in the sink. These are but a few of the consequences many of us face when chaos starts creeping into our lives. There's a way...
Jeff Bridges Does “Bad” Real Good Jeff Bridges Does “Bad” Real Good 07/20/2010 First let's take Bad's inventory. According to the onscreen evidence in "Crazy Heart," Bad Blake is a 57-year-old, self-taught, honky-tonk country singer with hemorrhoids. He...
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