Night clerk Charlie Hughes listens as small-time gambler Erie Smith recounts stories of his imagined glory days in Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie" in a double-bill production at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.

"To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed.

Wyatt Earp James Garner Doc Holliday Jason Robards Ike Clanton Robert Ryan Andy Warshaw Steve Inhat Sherman McMasters Monte Markham Morgan Earp Sam Melville Virgil Earp Frank Converse A Mirisch Corp.

Critics love David Letterman. They love him because he's mean and liberal and does everything they demand: further the leftist agenda through the brutal use of humiliation to target any public figure who might derail Leftist causes.

How come magazine and fashion editors are always portrayed as such unpleasant termagants in movies? We could answer that, but we don't want to get in trouble with our boss.

Today is Sunday, July 26, the 207th day of 2009 with 158 to follow. The moon is waxing.

THE MARTIN SCORSESE movie "The Aviator" is a small gold mine for aficionados of Oscar trivia.