Charles Apple
@charlesapple.bsky.social
Creator of nationally-distributed Further Review pages for the Spokesman-Review. Based in Lilburn, Georgia. First book was published in November 2024.
"Cast Away" starring Tom Hanks and Wilson the volleyball opened in theaters a quarter-century ago Monday. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
December 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"Cast Away" starring Tom Hanks and Wilson the volleyball opened in theaters a quarter-century ago Monday. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
"Doctor Zhivago" starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger and Alec Guinness premiered 60 years ago Monday. It won five Oscars and is the ninth highest-grossing movie ever released. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
December 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Doctor Zhivago" starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger and Alec Guinness premiered 60 years ago Monday. It won five Oscars and is the ninth highest-grossing movie ever released. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
It's a week before Christmas, so it's time to run a number of common Christmastime myths through the ol' fact checker. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It's a week before Christmas, so it's time to run a number of common Christmastime myths through the ol' fact checker. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
The comic book hero Captain America debuted in Timely Comics 85 years ago this month, in a comic with the cover date of March 1941. The Nazi-hunting hero predated the U.S. entry into WW2 by a full year. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
December 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The comic book hero Captain America debuted in Timely Comics 85 years ago this month, in a comic with the cover date of March 1941. The Nazi-hunting hero predated the U.S. entry into WW2 by a full year. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
And here is Rob Reiner in a Season 2/October 1971 episode of "The Partridge Family. What? He wants to go out with Laurie Partridge? Shirley not!
December 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
And here is Rob Reiner in a Season 2/October 1971 episode of "The Partridge Family. What? He wants to go out with Laurie Partridge? Shirley not!
And here Rob is in a Season 7/April 1967 episode of "The Andy Griffith Show."
December 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
And here Rob is in a Season 7/April 1967 episode of "The Andy Griffith Show."
He had hair then! One of Rob Reiner's first TV appearances was in Season 2 of "Batman" in January 1967. He played a guy who delivered a meal to the Penguin.
December 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
He had hair then! One of Rob Reiner's first TV appearances was in Season 2 of "Batman" in January 1967. He played a guy who delivered a meal to the Penguin.
I'll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have booze and things that ooze
Out from under the tree...
You can count on me
Please have booze and things that ooze
Out from under the tree...
December 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I'll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have booze and things that ooze
Out from under the tree...
You can count on me
Please have booze and things that ooze
Out from under the tree...
60 years ago Monday, two NASA space missions -- Gemini 7 and Gemini 6A -- met up in Earth orbit. It was a skill NASA would need for its upcoming moon missions. But that first rendezvous was not easy. Just about everything went wrong at first. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
December 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
60 years ago Monday, two NASA space missions -- Gemini 7 and Gemini 6A -- met up in Earth orbit. It was a skill NASA would need for its upcoming moon missions. But that first rendezvous was not easy. Just about everything went wrong at first. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
Inside Friday's San Diego Union-Tribune: Dummy hed atop dummy copy for the Falcons/Buccaneers game story.
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December 14, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Inside Friday's San Diego Union-Tribune: Dummy hed atop dummy copy for the Falcons/Buccaneers game story.
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I've been doing college bowl preview pages nearly every year since my first one for the Chicago Tribune in 1997. During my consulting years, I'd build the page and then sell them freelance to papers around the country. There were only 21 bowl games back then.
December 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I've been doing college bowl preview pages nearly every year since my first one for the Chicago Tribune in 1997. During my consulting years, I'd build the page and then sell them freelance to papers around the country. There were only 21 bowl games back then.
My second Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review is a quick look at this year's slate of 47 college football bowl games. Games begin tomorrow and will run through the Nat'l Championship game on Jan. 19.
December 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My second Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review is a quick look at this year's slate of 47 college football bowl games. Games begin tomorrow and will run through the Nat'l Championship game on Jan. 19.
"The Color Purple" -- starring newcomer actors Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey, directed by Stephen Spielberg and based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel — premiered in NYC 40 years ago next Tuesday. This is the first of two Further Review pages in today's Spokesman-Review.
December 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"The Color Purple" -- starring newcomer actors Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey, directed by Stephen Spielberg and based on Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel — premiered in NYC 40 years ago next Tuesday. This is the first of two Further Review pages in today's Spokesman-Review.
My Further Review book is now on sale at the campus bookstore at my alma mater, Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. They're displaying it on the table with other books by alumni and faculty members. We're working on setting up a lecture+book signing event next semester.
December 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
My Further Review book is now on sale at the campus bookstore at my alma mater, Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. They're displaying it on the table with other books by alumni and faculty members. We're working on setting up a lecture+book signing event next semester.
My baby brother, Artie Apple, turns 53 today. Here he was when he was 10, posing with a friend and with a tiger I had built in the snow on the front stoop of our house in McCormick.
December 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My baby brother, Artie Apple, turns 53 today. Here he was when he was 10, posing with a friend and with a tiger I had built in the snow on the front stoop of our house in McCormick.
Here's how my colleague Chris Soprych promoted my page on today's A1.
December 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Here's how my colleague Chris Soprych promoted my page on today's A1.
Good grief! Has it actually been 60 years since the "A Charlie Brown Christmas" holiday TV special was first shown on CBS? Yep: 60 years ago tonight, in fact. My page in today's Spokesman-Review is what Further Review is all about, Charlie Brown ...
December 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Good grief! Has it actually been 60 years since the "A Charlie Brown Christmas" holiday TV special was first shown on CBS? Yep: 60 years ago tonight, in fact. My page in today's Spokesman-Review is what Further Review is all about, Charlie Brown ...
Cher's latest holiday music offering is brought to you by the copy desk of Alden Global Capital.
December 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Cher's latest holiday music offering is brought to you by the copy desk of Alden Global Capital.
Oh, I want a big rhinoceros for Christmas ...
December 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Oh, I want a big rhinoceros for Christmas ...
John Lennon was killed 45 years ago Monday. He was 40 years old and had just released a comeback album with his wife, Yoko Ono. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
December 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
John Lennon was killed 45 years ago Monday. He was 40 years old and had just released a comeback album with his wife, Yoko Ono. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
Hardly anyone had even heard of the pulp magazine hero Zorro before Douglas Fairbanks' silent movie treatment of him that was released in theaters 105 years ago today. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Hardly anyone had even heard of the pulp magazine hero Zorro before Douglas Fairbanks' silent movie treatment of him that was released in theaters 105 years ago today. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
80 years ago Friday, five U.S. Navy torpedo bombers disappeared off the coast of Florida, as did a search plane. The incident became part of the lore of the "mysterious" Bermuda Triangle.
December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
80 years ago Friday, five U.S. Navy torpedo bombers disappeared off the coast of Florida, as did a search plane. The incident became part of the lore of the "mysterious" Bermuda Triangle.
Last Christmas, I gave you my green bean casserole
The very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone I REALLY hate ...
The very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone I REALLY hate ...
December 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Last Christmas, I gave you my green bean casserole
The very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone I REALLY hate ...
The very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone I REALLY hate ...
Went to my stepmother's memorial service in Evans, Ga., today. My dad passed away nearly five years ago. But I did get to see my mom and my sister. That's Caroline on the right. And that's Eva Jane on the left, looking younger and more fit than either of us. We need to get together more often.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Went to my stepmother's memorial service in Evans, Ga., today. My dad passed away nearly five years ago. But I did get to see my mom and my sister. That's Caroline on the right. And that's Eva Jane on the left, looking younger and more fit than either of us. We need to get together more often.
70 years ago Monday, Rosa Parks declined to give up her seat to white riders of a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. Her arrest kicked off a 382 bus boycott that helped lead to the end of bus segregation. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
70 years ago Monday, Rosa Parks declined to give up her seat to white riders of a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. Her arrest kicked off a 382 bus boycott that helped lead to the end of bus segregation. My Further Review in today's Spokesman-Review.