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Exhausted movie meister or villain? According to longtime movie critic Jack Poessiger, prominent, old-timey movie collector Wade Williams passed away and was cremated last month. “There was never an obituary or notice in the Star,” Poessiger says. “Nothing was said or done; he just quietly went away.” Well, … Continue reading →

Most wannabes are more than happy to get their 15 minutes of fame…. In the case of former Overland Parker Karolyn Grimes she doesn’t need to settle. The child actress many know as ZuZu Bailey – from her role as … Continue reading →

Getting actual news out in a timely manner hasn’t been of much importance of late… Not at the Kansas City Star anyway. The former grande dame of local news and information has long since been turned into a loosely written amalgam of … Continue reading →

Everyone has their Achilles heel… Even if you never heard of George Orwell or his novel, 1984, like my suburban neighbors. That said, the definition is, “a weakness in spite of overall strength, which can lead to a downfall.” These … Continue reading →

Talk about where’s Waldo… As popular as Chiefs superstar Patrick Mahomes is – the loss to Indy aside – his insanely tall and clearly insane – little brother Jackson Mahomes is the opposite, as in unpopular. For the past two years … Continue reading →

Who can forget the wild and crazy Summer of Love 2020? Not Hollywood. While I never stopped going to movies during the COVID hoopla – long as theaters were open – my wife, daughters and I were pretty lonely in … Continue reading →

How long before the SEC & Big 10 stop paying big bucks to lesser teams like Mizzou, Rutgers, Vanderbilt, I wondered? “To answer your last question: Never,” fired back the Guy Who Days What Others Think. “It’s a dumb idea … Continue reading →

A year ago it looked like the Big 12 might be toast… A handful of schools that made up the college sports conference many Kansas Citian’s grew up with had bailed 10 years earlier to escape bullying by Texas and Oklahoma.  They … Continue reading →

Seems like only yesterday… The never-ending, ongoing demise of the Big 12 Conference, that is. The crazy part is – Colorado started it by bailing for the Pac 10 a dozen years ago; followed by Nebraska to the now infamous Big 10 a year later; and Missouri and … Continue reading →

What were the odds? That when outspoken KC comedy legend Craig Glazer and his brothers chipped in to purchase an expensive life insurance policy on their dad several years back, that Stanford’s & Sons founder Stan Glazer would outlive all three of … Continue reading →

The last two years were so intense, tons of stuff fell between the cracks… For example, the once beloved Aunt Jemima bit the dust last summer, a victim of wokeness and the Black Lives Matter fad. Did you notice? I … Continue reading →

Stonehenge and the pyramids aside, nothing seems to last forever… Not even Kansas City’s vaunted Country Club Plaza. Oh sure, it’s changed over the years – long gone are institutions like Woolworth’s, King Louie, Sears and hoity-toity clothiers such as Jack Henry and Cricket … Continue reading →

Missouri’s basketball struggles are self inflicted with poor coaching hires… They have NOTHING to do with conference affiliation. Hiring Kim Anderson would’ve been a disaster in the Big 12 or ANY major conference. By any measure, Mizzou basketball is a … Continue reading →

There are folks who still think I’m a sour grapes guy… Think again, because my critiques of the Kansas City Star and Pitch have nothing to do with a sense of longing because I’m no longer writing for either. It’s true, I … Continue reading →