

From The Vault: The Incredible Shrinking TV Screen - The Kenner Star 2010
Lest you think that news teases in newspapers, on TV and on the web are my only gripe, (as I complained in 2008), think, as they say,...


From The Vault: Kissing Tammy Wynette - The Kenner Star May, 1998
“No Show Jones.” That’s what they called him. If country singer George Jones was scheduled to perform at a certain time and place, you...


From The Vault: My Brushes with Royalty -The Kenner Star May, 2011
The last time I was in Westminster Abbey was in the early 1980's. My most memorable moment came, actually, as I was leaving the building....


From the Vault: MY Brush with Royalty - The Kenner Star 1997
The death of Princess Diana has spawned a sea of ink and a mountain of print, and so I guess it’s my obligation, as a “journalist,” to...


From the Vault: Jesse Jackson, Pete Fountain and My Mother - Kenner Star 2005
I know you just can’t wait to get to the part in this column that explains the connection between two national celebrities and my mother,...


From The Vault: Elisabeth and the Easter Bunny - Kenner Star 1996
It was Easter, 1990. Elisabeth, my youngest, was about 9 months old, and was complaining that I never take her to see the Easter Bunny....


From The Vault : Pardon My Blooper - The Kenner Star from 1998 & 2010
Turn on a TV set any day this week and you’ll hear words we couldn’t say on the air when I was starting out in broadcasting. Cable TV...


From The Vault : Traveling With Father Clancy - Kenner Star 1998
As a good Catholic boy, I am aware that many mothers of same, at one time or another, think about their sons becoming priests. Frankly,...


From The Vault: The Caliph of Clink - Kenner Star 1996
I was really anticipating a great afternoon of baseball in front of the tube. LSU was playing Miami in the College World Series in Omaha....


From The Vault : Judy Judy Judy - The Kenner Star 1999
From 1999 I present a piece I did on the lady known in the gay community as "Miss Judy Garland." The main reason I am presenting this...