This story is from my book, Day of the Wolf.  Years ago, a TV production company associated with MGM Studios contracted with me to help develop and produce a new television series.  It was a fairly large company run by three partners with several series on the air and several more in development. One of…

Over 20 years ago, I wrote about this experience relating it to America of that day. It’s time for a new telling. I grew up in the Chicago area. In the mid-fifties I was in the sixth grade. During those years I had a paper route. Talk about anachronisms, newspapers were actually read back then.…

In my last post, we looked at a terrifying subject – the reality of hell, the center of Satan’s kingdom. It is a place beyond human description where people who have rejected all truth about themselves and their lives await final judgment. Witnesses have been given to us, people who have experienced brief moments in…

Back in the late 80’s I was the co-Executive producer and Showrunner of the television series, The Equalizer.  It ran for four years on CBS and starred the wonderful actor, my friend, the late Edward Woodward. Since then, the series has aired around the world.  While we were in production, as Showrunner I decided to…

On this day, nine years ago, the wonderful actor, Edward Woodward, passed away.  The week after he left us, I wrote the following tribute: This morning came the word that my old friend and great colleague Edward Woodward had passed away. He was 79 years old. Over recent years, our contact was pretty much limited…

  I’m going to give over this edition of my blog to my wife, Carel Gage Luck. I hope you find her article of interest and, perhaps, of help. Carel Gage Luck: I wrote this column a number of years ago, but feel it might be of help to people today. There is a book…

What you are about to read is disjointed. Maybe a better word is ragged. This is because the memories are ragged. They refuse to be condensed and organized into neat, traditional forms. Partly this is because I am writing about two things at once, a very influential documentary about Vietnam by Ken Burns and about…

I met him in a church we were attending. I’ll call him Bob Rice.  That’s not his real name, but it will do. From the first moment we met, it was clear that Bob wasn’t in good physical shape at all.  He was beyond middle-age, but many of his problems were not age-related.  We became…

Anyone with any experience in public speaking should find this little nightmare fascinating. I don’t get terrified easily.  There have been many moments of fear in my life, but sheer, stomach-churning, nausea-creating terror?  Not often.  I want to tell you about a moment of sheer terror that I experienced a number of years ago.  If…

A story taken from my book, Day of the Wolf. Years ago, a TV production company associated with MGM Studios contracted with me to help develop and produce a new television series.  It was a fairly large company run by three partners with several series on the air and several more in development. One of…