Lena Olin Is absolutely the most impressive screen actress alive! Watch her in anything. I dare you to tell me I'm wrong. Watch the film Romeo Is Bleeding some time. She plays the ultimate femme fatale. Deadly, but irresistible. In Chocolat the...
The Hollywood Walk Of Fame Is One Of Hollywood's Premier Tourist Attractions
There is no reason for a miracle to take any time. The truth is not limited by the constraints of the space/time continuum. The eternal now is not "time". It is always now. This is the the truth of your existence. You are eternal You are...
This is Dai Kornberg as Oliver Hardy and Bob Druwing as Stan Laurel in 2007 on Hollywood Blvd. They are available for films, TV and personal appearances and can be contacted via Bob's profile page. Most recently, they appeared in an episode of...
This picture of Bob Druwing as Jimmy Reese, from Brad Jacques' first feature length film Leaving Scars, was taken at his home in Maine. It was Bob's first appearance in a film as a blonde. Bob has thus far appeared in seven films directed by...
I don't know if it has anything to do with my dad having been an engineer, but McCloskey's two books of short stories about a boy inventor from Centerburg, Ohio had an influence on me that lingers to this day. Homer inspired me in so many ways. He...
With a truly unique voice and a terrific talent for writing and playing, Jesse Colin Young founded The Youngbloods, as well as showing prowess as a solo artist and gave us great songs like "Get Together", "Josianne", "Darkness, Darkness", "Sunlight"...
Brad Jacques is a film director, film editor and actor. Born July 11, 1969, in Topsfield, Massachusetts, he now makes his home in Los Angeles, California. I've had the honor to appear in seven of his films, beginning with his 10 minute short...
FLICK LIVES! was founded by Steve Marchand, John DeSisto, Joe Griffith, Mike Canty and Bob Druwing in late 1969. Drummer Canty was soon replaced by Billy Quirk (pictured here kneeling in the black T-shirt and pants). When bass player DeSisto left...
The lyrics to some of the songs Bob Druwing has written.
The motto of Framingham State College is "Live To The Truth". I was a freshman English major there in 1971 and I thought it was as meaningless a suggestion as I had ever encountered. I had graduated from a Jesuit high school (where I became an...
Nessebar (also transcribed as Nesebar or Nesebur; ancient name: Menebria and Mesembria) is an ancient town and one of the major seaside resorts on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. Located in Burgas Province, it is the administrative center of the...
I hope you enjoy the lenses on my two novels (one completed, one in progress), He Could Have Done Anything and Hummingbirds On The Yellowhead Highway, lenses pertaining to my acting career (characters I've portrayed, directors I've worked with,...
Today we'd call it a "tipping point". Amid an enormous arms build-up across Europe, the June 28, 1914 assassination in Sarajevo of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife was all it took to prompt nations poised to do so to launch the first world...
Julietta Venegas, the princess of Tijuana, has won a Grammy award and five Latin Grammys. She plays guitar and keyboards, writes very entertaining songs inspired by her life and has a winning personality. You've got to check her out. The first...
Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein on November 7, 1879) was one of the leaders of the October Revolution in Russia and was second only to Vladimir Lenin, but his opposition to Stalin and the bureaucratization of the USSR led to his...
Just as most competent researchers of President John F. Kennedy's assassination had long suspected, because there has been ample evidence of it for quite a long time now (see Mark Lane's 1991 book Plausible Denial, for instance), E. Howard Hunt...
"Tim and Eric auditioned me after I told them I could sing Stardust like Nat King Cole. The next thing I knew the third segment of the audition, where they had me singing one of their tunes like the worst of American Idol, was on YouTube as a...
Writer and TV game show panelist Dorothy Kilgallen was the only journalist granted an interview with Oswald murderer Jack Ruby in his Dallas jail cell. Subsequently, she publicly stated that she intended to publish information that would "blow the...
Perhaps no other assassin has had more awareness of placing himself in the history books than John Wilkes Booth
George Joannides was instrumental in concealing the CIA's connection to Lee Harvey Oswald
Rabid anti-communist and former head of the Chicago FBI office, Guy Banister was a key figure in the "sheep-dipping" of Lee Harvey Oswald that made it easy for The Warren Commission to present Oswald as a communist nut, when in fact he was a U.S....
Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat was the third president of Egypt. He served for eleven years before his October 6, 1981 assassination. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin in 1978 for their unprecedented...
The first African American Secret Service agent to see presidential protection duty was framed and imprisoned because he knew too much about protocol violations by JFK's team in Dallas and a previous threat against JFK in Chicago that brought...
This Director Of The Central Intelligence Agency Lied To Congress
Allen Dulles had career Army and Air Force officer L. Fletcher Prouty create a network of subordinate focal point offices in the armed services, then throughout the entire U.S. government, whose members would act quickly, with total obedience, when called on by the CIA to assist with covert...
As the CIA's Berlin station chief, he successfully built the tunnel to the Soviet sector to spy on their communications, but he's better known for arranging Operation Mongoose, the CIA's enlistment of the Mafia in its plots to assassinate Fidel...
Like Jack Ruby, Roselli came up through the Capone gang in Chicago; but Johnny started out with the Winter Hill mob in Somerville, Massachusetts as Filippo Sacco. He went on the lam to Chicago and changed his name after committing his first murder. ...
Dr. Sidney Gottlieb ran the CIA mind control program, MKULTRA and their technical services division
Robert Maheu, who is perhaps best known as the right hand man to Howard Hughes, was the go-between for the CIA in arranging its use of La Cosa Nostra in its plans to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro, under the Eisenhower administration. Of...
Lumumba's leadership would last only ten weeks, before he was deposed and murdered at the hands of the Belgian government, because of his intention to align his uranium rich nation with The Soviet Union. The CIA has claimed they were uninvolved,...
The legally elected president of Chile was the victim of a CIA engineered coup that resulted in his death in September of 1973. David Atlee Phillips of the CIA managed the propaganda leading up to the coup. He would later be instrumental in the...
He personified counterintelligence in America, however it's arguable that he did as much harm as good. Among his closest friends was Brithish MI spy Kim Philby, who turned out to be a working for the Soviet Union and who eventually fled to Moscow. ...
During a drinking session, not long before his death, David Sanchez Morales bragged to his friend Ruben "Rocky" Carbajal about taking care of the Kennedy brothers. It has been theorized that he was the co-ordinator of the assassination teams in the...
Is the cat dead or alive? Well, according to Schrodinger, quantum theory says: until you open the box,...it's both! Confused yet? It gets worse. Because opening the box alters the conditions, it can't be said that the cat wasn't alive before, if...
Tal Wilkenfeld knows exactly who she is; if you like music, so should you
Delilah calls herself "the queen of sappy love songs"
All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best one. The principle of Occam's Razor can be stated in many ways, but the above is how one most often encounters it being expressed. Lisa Simpson put it this way: "The simplest...
Coppola released Apocalypse Now Redux in 2001, restoring an additional 49 minutes of footage that he reluctantly cut from the original. It's a bigger movie, but not necessarily a better one, because the original is a perfect film. I think of Redux...
Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove is a magnificent dark comedy with a fabulous cast giving top flight performances including three seperate major roles played by the great Peter Sellers. The film mirrors Fail Safe in that it postulates what could...
"Jeremiah Johnson made his way into the mountains "Bettin' on forgettin' all the troubles that he knew...." Sydney Pollack's Jeremiah Johnson is an allegory of the story of life. It was beautifully shot, has a great cast and will move you to tears...
Chris Smither is the real deal
Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. Hoagy is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul".
Madeleine Stowe is one of the most lovely and talented actresses of our time.
Roman Polanski's Chinatown is a perfect movie!
Nobel laureate Kary Mullis is a renegade who is not easily dismissed
The Assassination Group is a group dedicated to lenses on political assassinations, related people and topics. There are basically two versions of history. The one most people are familiar with is taught in the schools and in the mainstream media....
Born on December 27, 1951, Karla Bonoff is a singer-songwriter from California, who has performed as a solo artist, as a back-up vocalist and as a member of the group Bryndle. Her songs have been covered by such top artists as Linda Ronstadt,...
"How can we keep love alive "How can anything survive "When these little minds tear you in two? "What a town without a pity can do"
"Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you'; mature love says, 'I need you because I love you'." -------------------------------Erich Fromm in "The Art of Loving" Fromm was associated with what became known as the Frankfurt School of...
Joseph Heller's Picture This is the most important novel of our time
Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler warned us about the "military industrial complex" decades before President Eisenhower did. What he said is at least as relevant today as it was then. The most highly decorated soldier of WWI, Butler...
Richard Brautigan wlll make you think about things in ways you never would have otherwise . He'll make you feel in ways you may have been afraid to feel on your own. He'll make you laugh out loud at the insanity we all encounter in life, with...
If only you believed in miracles, you dreamed some day you might sing half as well as the founder of Jefferson Airplane Marty Balin. He and Grace Slick were the band's lead vocalists. Immortalized in the movie "Gimme Shelter", Marty was the only...
You'll love Pucca! I do! I once met a female superhero, who introduced me to Pucca and my life was immediately changed. I have been repeatedly enriched by Pucca's unbending intent and her shining power of example. I don't know how you feel...
Thane Eugene Cesar is the guy the mainstream media has told you about, in connection with an audio recording of RFK's shooting that has been the focus of recent legal and media attention, but for some reason, the mainstream media has been unwilling...
Years ago I became curious about why there was so little written about Lisa Howard and she became a particular point of focus for me. Call it intuition. She was an actress who scored the first major interview with Krushev at the U.N. in 1960, by...
I first met Brad Anderson in the Spring of 1990, at an audition for his "A Short Film About Bowling", held at the Boston Film and Video Foundation. He'd set it up in the form of a table reading and I was reading the part of Tony, a street drunk. I...
The jazz world wouldn't be the same without Rudy Van Gelder
What a voice! If you don't come away from listening to Johnny Mathis feeling positive, there's gotta be something seriously wrong with you! So, if that's the case, seek help! Then get some Johnny Mathis playing and feel good! Johnny was born John...
Kurt Wenner is a master at chalk art and street painting. His depth perception is amazing and, let's face it, you have to visualize it before you can execute it. He's known for producing stunning original works of art in a few days that will...
Between Jeff Beck and Cliff Gallup, Between Clapton and Zappa...that's where I'd have to begin to place the jaw dropping guitar licks of Boston area native, Bob Enik. Have you ever witnessed a fine car racing toward a solid object, knowing it...
There is really no one else quite like Mose Allison and this is the case whether you are speaking of him as a singer, a pianist or as a songwriter. Always good for a laugh and a lesson, Mose Allison has given us lyrics that have contributed entire...
Dannie Richmond! One of the world's greatest drummers!
If you are going to be in Mexico City, you absolutely MUST schedule a day to go to Teotihuacan! It is not to be missed and you certainly won't regret the time and effort it takes to see it. Take a tour bus from your hotel and enjoy your friendly...
To Visit Or Reside, When It Comes To Maine Country Living, Limerick Is A Town That Can't Be Beat!
Fender has redesigned and upgraded the Stratacoustic and Telecoustic acoustic/electric models! The $200 model seen here with fiberglass back and sides is still being produced with the Squier label. The newer deLuxe models from Fender have upgrades...
This is the Telecoustic in candy apple red. It also comes stock in sunburst. For an inexpensive acoustic/electric, you really can't do better. It has a genuine maple Telly bolt-on neck with a 21-fret rosewood fretboard, just like the ones with which...
Billy Higgins was one of the greatest jazz drummers!
Barney Kessel was one of the greatest guitarists the jazz world has ever known
add → photo text Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers was like a showcase and a school for some of the biggest names in jazz
When you first listen to Leo Kottke, it's hard to believe you're hearing only one man playing one guitar. You'd swear you have to be hearing AT LEAST two! The first time I heard him, I didn't realize I was listening to a live recording and when he...
We can thank Walter P. Chrysler for the introduction of the HEMI to the automotive market. The first ones were 331 cubic inches in displacement, similar to what is pictured here. If you've never driven a vehicle with a HEMI, I can tell you it...
Bob Druwing is a member of The Screen Actors Guild and The American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, who makes his home in Van Nuys, California. A lifelong actor, he is also a singer/songwriter, guitar player, stand-up comedian,...
My father taught me how to draw when I was five, while I lay in a hospital bed recovering from a concussion suffered in a fall from a yard swing. Naturally, he taught me simple cartoon animals first and, of course, Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, Popeye...
Too Wise is an original design by Bob Druwing, which was first crafted in pen and ink on paper with a sculpture in mind. Other than the picture seen here, it existed briefly in mural form on a wall in the forth floor hallway of Wheeler dormitory at...
This is Bob Druwing as a drunk Confederate battle re-enactment soldier at The Gettysburg Civil War Museum in the film Soulkeeper. This was Bob's first film role in Hollywood, though he came to town with a 9 1/2 year track record in films and TV. ...
Actor Bob Druwing as his character John Deerhunter in a photo by Hollywood Walk Of Fame photographer Bob Freeman.
Actor Bob Druwing's latest headshots are here! He recently signed with Central Artists Agency in Burbank, California. Laura Walsh is his new theatrical agent and Jean-Marc Carre is his new commercial agent. They requested a whole array of looks,...
This photo is of actor Bob Druwing at age 43, having undergone weeks of training with free weights, tanning and getting a tight black perm, in order to portray Dominic Romano at age 28 (and 63) in the ill fated film "Broken Dreams", which was...
This is a picture of me, Bob Druwing, on a break, but in character, during the shooting of the second season of the HBO Television show CARNIVALE. I made two appearances during the first season of the show, but during the second season I was a...
This 1984 Winnebago LeSharo was my "art project" in the Summer of 2006. It no longer runs, but is still perfect for a camp house on the hill overlooking the trout stream that is the southwest border of my land in Maine. Of course I didn't want it...
Born July 10, 1938 in Philadelphia, Lee Morgan was arguably the greatest trumpet player ever recorded.
Stephane Grappelli was the father of the jazz violin
Buntline is Bob Druwing's cowboy character, who has shown up for most of the westerns Bob has worked in and is generally altered little by the productions' wardrobe departments. Everyone seems to like the hat, which he has owned since the 60's. ...
Of course it's a matter of taste and opinion, but every great guitarist respects Jeff Beck.