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Dec.30.2011
(#7 in a 12-part series to be printed at the beginning of each month)
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN - A movie musical from Samuel Goldwyn, Hans Christian Andersen is truly a lost gem. It’s even forgotten by lovers of Danny Kaye motion pictures, and fans of the music of Frank Loesser. Yet...
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Aug.17.2011
TRAVELING VS. WRITING
Truth be told, if the headline were dental extraction vs. writing, most people would take dental extraction. So if the choice is to sit at a blank computer screen wondering why nothing is coming or to go to Venice, Italy, lick colorful gelato and go for a gondola ride, the...
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Feb.17.2011
The fiction of life is that good-looking people should only be paired with other good-looking people. The fact is that sometimes, some not so fancy-looking people do stumble upon great lookers and ignite the magic of love. That’s when the word “lucky” starts to fill up the spaces when the question...
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Jan.19.2011
"I love George Roy Hill and Universal Pictures, who made a flawless translation of my novel Slaughterhouse-Five to the silver screen," said Kurt Vonnegut in Film Comment in 1985. "I drool and cackle every time I watch that film because it is so harmonious with what I felt when I...
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Nov.27.2010
I Curse The River of Time is a nostalgic, sensitive, self-critical narrative related by a working class man who is about to go through a divorce and has learned that his mother is dying of cancer. It is replete with Scandinavian austerity, the sentences and images all wind-burnished. The divorce...
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Nov.11.2010
Stories can be as important as brain surgery. To write them well can make an author a brain surgeon. I don’t say this lightly. When I see lines curl out the door of a bookstore for a reading by an author, or lines most recently outside theatres on Hollywood Boulevard for AFI Fest, it’s clear people...
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May.08.2010
If the Russians could do it then, what's stopping them from doing it again? Finland is just a country of 5 million against 200 million, after all.
“Imagine for a moment that you’re five years old. You know that your country is at war because you haven’t seen a man over the age of sixteen and under...
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Dec.25.2009
I like to do my bit to help the effort to save our planet. Last week in Rome my wife and I confronted a brand new recycling program which, mainly, seemed to consist of workmen loading enormous amounts of bottles into their tiny dump truck outside our window at 5 a.m. We cheered them on and put our...
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Nov.04.2009
I left France and went in the Republic of the Congo, when I was a kid. When I came in the Congo, I felt something was different from my native country, France like the climate, the way of life and joy that I saw in people, the music and the cuisine. There were certain things that I didn’t...
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Sep.17.2009
Want a fling? Visit Denmark. A three-minute long ad showed a young, blonde woman cradling a dark-skinned infant called August and saying he is the result of a brief tryst with a foreign tourist.
There are several questions here:
This was on Danish TV and apparently staged, so what prompted it? Is...
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