Category: Book Publishing & Screenwriting
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‘Oppenheimer’ vs. ‘Flower Moon’
March 10 is right around the corner — Oscar Night at the Dolby Theater. Among the 10 films nominated for Best Picture stand two giants, each about three hours long, both boasting top directors and talent. They couldn’t be more different in style and substance. While “Killers of the Flower Moon,” directed by Martin Scorsese,…
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The cancer didn’t get me. Sobriety did.
This is a story of celebrated Oscar winners and legendary international Broadway and opera directors — my teachers and mentors. It is also a story of spiritual survival – from the bitter dregs of alcoholism and growing up gay in the 1950s. This is also a story about spiritual growth and gay sexual identity, intertwined…
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All About That Cat
Happy Baby! Gracie My beloved Russian Blue. Those yellow eyes. Her sleek gray fur that almost looks blue. Her lighter colored paws and underbelly — what a cat! We think she may be 10 years old or younger. The vet was not sure. She could be younger, he said. I first enjoyed Gracie a year…
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About J. Robert Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s powerful biopic “Oppenheimer,” now playing in Imax (where we saw it), delivers a powerful punch at nuclear politics and the McCarthy era. There seemed to be a Communist in every closet. And “Oppy” was accused of being one of them. He was put through hell, this after being touted “father of the atomic…
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Art Informs Writing
On a recent afternoon, I enjoyed Mindful Monday: Cultivating Empathy and Connectedness, presented online by the Education Department of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The exhibition explored, with mindful meditation briefly at the start, Light, Space, Surface: Selections from LACMA’s Collection, the art of Light and Space and related works with highly polished…
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Politics: Beginning of ‘Teflon Don’s’ end?
It was the beginnng of the end for John Gotti. As I stood in an outside corridor of the New York Courthouse, taking a break from jury duty, the “Dapper Don” passed by me, escorted by his entourage. With tanned, smiling face, he looked liked a million dollars in his $1,000 Italian suit. The occasion,…
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Poetry for a Rainy Morning
Rain is a Los Angeles thing. It rained during my childhood in Annapolis, But my memories of Omaha are mostly of snow. Living in Los Angeles for 33 years recalls a lot of rain. The Rainy Season. Sometimes we have it; in other years, we don’t. This is one of those years when we do…
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Progress, Progress
Currently, I am writing a Romantic Novel (bisexual) called THE THIRTEENTH STEP, about couples entangled in relationships in and outside 12-Step Programs. The 13th Step, you might guess, is verboten because it interferes with physical and mental sobriety. The step suggests Adam and Eve taking a bite out of that apple. You know what happened!
By David Kearse 