Danny Tyree

“I’m a b-a-a-a-a-d boy!” - Lou Costello You’ve probably seen the recent tidal wave of “tell all” memoirs by celebrities such as Sylvester Stallone, Alice Cooper, Christopher Lloyd and Michael Douglas (with Willie Nelson’s “The Last Leaf” due in November).

In the coming months, millions of Americans will be firing up their heaters (electric, gas, wood, wishful thinking, etc.), so I thought it would be an appropriate time to remind y’all of fire safety. (It’s also an appropriate time to remind you about identity theft safety. That frantic voice pleading, “Grandma, I’m in Italy and my passport caught on fire and I need you to Venmo me the money to buy a fire engine” is probably not your grandson.)

“Noah’s Ark resting place ‘100 percent confirmed’ after 4300 years.” That’s what a recent headline in Great Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper breathlessly announced. Most of us grew up being lectured, “Measure twice, cut once” (or in my case, “Measure twice,…

Danny Tyree I see dead people. So do you, if you’ve been caught up in the recent resurgence of interest in the world of mystery writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976). I think of it as a “somebody else is guilty” pleasure.…

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Linda Lavin’s “Alice” and Jack Klugman’s “Quincy, M.E.” were among the handful of TV shows introduced in the autumn of 1976 that had “legs” (i.e. lasted more than a single season). But one series REALLY had legs, if you know what I mean. I mean “Charlie’s Angels,” of course.

Not that Don McLean asked me, but I was born too late to “recall what was revealed the day the music died.” The terrorist plane crashes of September 11, 2001, though? Those I remember. And how they revealed the paired vulnerability and tenacity of a nation.

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