Taking a bit from the 1974 hit movie Chinatown this writer can see comparisons that can almost blind you. Chinatown, directed by Roman Polanski, with a Robert Towne script and starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, reveals so much about the power of the super rich....

She’s a little lady, 70 something, with this cute, addictive smile. Drives an old bomb of a car, replete with Peace and End the Occupation type stickers on it. She’s a nurse, still works, doing home care for very ill folks with that special Mona type TLC. I first met...

In Francis Ford's Coppola's brilliant 1979 film Apocalypse Now we have the CIA ordering the assassination of a renegade colonel. Colonel Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando, rambled 'Off the reservation' and simply went too far, even for the genocide loving US government...

You're eighteen, second semester at Brooklyn College (a tough school to get into) and always looking to make a few bucks spending money. I mean, you live at home and college tuition costs only $32 a year. Ah, the good old days of free tuition at the CUNY ( Ciy...

 Remember the famous line by Claude Rains as Captain Renault in Casablanca? After being told by his Nazi handlers to close Rick's Cafe he responded to Bogart's question of why are you shutting me down? He simply answered 'There's gambling going on!' as he then took...

Back in my Brooklyn NYC of the 50s and 60s we used to call the neighborhood luncheonette 'The Candy Store'. In my Ave U neighborhood we had at least one such store every few short blocks. The one I will  focus on was ' Moe's Luncheonette' on Ave U between East 24th St...