Tag: Entertainment Industry
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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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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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Three Mass Murders, Two Book Releases
I cannot help but comment on the recent mass shootings that took place in California. That they are tragic and appalling seems obvious. That the massacre in Monterey Park occurred at the beginning of the Chinese New Year appears ironic and disheartening. Contrast the Shakespearean horror of 11 dead, and others hospitalized with gunshot injuries,…
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Come Into My Bookstore! Here’s a Book Sample.
Soon I am starting a bookstore online to sell my celebrated volumes and hope you will visit it in November! I am also offering today a sample of my Romantic Novel, “Drumbeats.” The bookstore will be in addition to Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble and other fine bookstores, so that you have many choices.…
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Godard, Fellini – and Symmetry in Marketing
The cinematic world lost one of the greatest French auteurs of all time with the death of Jean-Luc Godard by (legal) assisted suicide at 91. His 1960 masterpiece, “Breathless,” tops my list of familiar Godard films. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, with writing…
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Taking A Break
This author is taking a break to determine what works and doesn’t among podcasts and blogs. Dear readers and listeners, I am not reaching you, and I believe that ultimately, I have something to say that could benefit you and your life. So, I am taking a break from writing a weekly eponymous blog and…
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What Goes Into a Good Review? Revisited.
We hope you enjoyed my recent film review of “All the Old Knives.” Let’s talk about reviews, in general. Having reviewed theater, opera, and film for The Baltimore Morning Sun for ten years (and the Annapolis Evening Capital before that), I hope I learned something about constructing what might be considered a “good review,” or…
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What Goes Into a Good Review? Revisited.
We hope you enjoyed my recent film review of “All the Old Knives.” Let’s talk about reviews, in general. Having reviewed theater, opera, and film for The Baltimore Morning Sun for ten years (and the Annapolis Evening Capital before that), I hope I learned something about constructing what might be considered a “good review,”…
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Favorable Review from Abroad Revisited
Worth reading 😎 Know David Kearse, actor, screenwriter, and journalist, from this personally written memoir SYNOPSIS Having survived alcohol addiction and been in recovery for 52 years, this writer studied with some of the greatest names in entertainment. He shares what he learned about it in “his long life.” He began in journalism on…