From the debut of “Magnum PI” in 1980, Hollywood began an unrequited love affair with the Ferrari, objectifying, worshipping it and turning it into a glorified sex symbol much as it did Marilyn Monroe.
Here’s a photo from the Biltmore Hotel ballroom stage just as the presenters announced Tony winning the Los Angeles Press Club feature writing award.
I WAS ATTRACTED TO THE double tragedy of Mickey’s youth and his death hanging over him and how he loses the one
THE POPE WALKED into the office today. His presence was high-fashion pietistic. Divine off-white three-piece suit, his manicured hands cradling a
IF I WERE TO SAY MICHELANGELO AND SISTINE CHAPEL, what image would immediately come to mind? For most people, I think, it
MY FATHER NEVER said so, but I always got the impression that he wished Henry Cisneros had been his son. Henry and
A CHILD OF THE BOOMER generation, I grew up desperately wanting to be Ernest Hemingway. To run with the bulls in Pamplona. To
IN THE FALL OF 1975, WHEN MY WIFE decided she wanted a divorce, I moved into a quaint though dilapidated cottage in an
New York Times bestselling author Tony Castro talks about his new book Maris & Mantle: Two Yankees, Immortality and the Age of Camelot, and the
Dressed in black leg warmers and an insulated lavender down vest to ward off the cold that had chilled the magnificent opera house,
‘An inspiring book about a primal force of history and faith’ “Almost since the beginning of time, armies had marched into war
Tony Castro is the author of the new book DiMag & Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers. He also has written Mickey Mantle: America’s Prodigal
ON A PICTURE POSTCARD California evening, a group of Tibetan monks in cardinal robes and gold undershirts traipsed across Melrose Avenue from the direction of
Looking for Hemingway: Spain, The Bullfights and A Final Rite of Passage by Tony Castro is now available at Amazon.com. What brought
This review originally appeared in the Cooperstown (NY) Crier, August 12, 2002. By TOM CATAL There are Mickey Mantle books by the
WHEN I WAS A STARRY-EYED high school sophomore dreaming that I could be the next Johnny Unitas, I met a real life
The not unexpected news that Fidel Castro lay near death, the one certainty that awaits us all, undoubtedly evokes mixed emotions in
From the debut of “Magnum PI” in 1980, Hollywood began an unrequited love affair with the Ferrari, objectifying, worshipping it and turning it into a glorified sex symbol much as it did Marilyn Monroe.