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Mar.14.2013
Robert Redford made a clunker called "The Way We Were" with Barbra Streisand that desperately tried to explain, apologize for, justify, glorify and...
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Mar.15.2013
Robert Redford was behind the entertaining political movie "The Candidate" (1972), which goes a long way towards explaining how the game works. This...
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Mar.16.2013
"All the President's Men" (1976) was Robert Redford's breakthrough from pretty boy star to filmmaker with clout. Redford, a former baseball player at...
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Mar.17.2013
"The Parallax View" was big liberal Warren Beatty's attempt to describe a conspiracy involving shadowy government agencies. It is entertaining and...
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Mar.18.2013
The conspiracy movies included two fictional stories, "Marathon Man" and "The Parallax View", as well as the Watergate movie, "All the President's...
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Mar.19.2013
"The Wind and the Lion" was a beautiful John Milius film and story, with a pulse-pounding sound track. Brian Keith plays Teddy Roosevelt, who orders...
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Mar.20.2013
"The Godfather" (1972) was a stylized masterpiece. Its auteur director, Coppola, laced it with the subtlest Leftist message that may have avoided the...
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Mar.22.2013
  Steven Travers interviewed by Dr. Alvin Jones   http://www.dralvinjones.com/content/01%20Steven%20Travers.wma  
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Mar.23.2013
At the same time, Robert Altman's "M*A"S*H" came out. It, too found an audience, and truth be told many who enjoyed "Patton" enjoyed "M*A*S*H". It...
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Mar.25.2013
THE DUKE HAS THE LEFT TIED IN KNOTS   In 1969, John Wayne infuriated the Left with "The Green Berets", a film that made no apologies in its all-...
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Jul.11.2010
That moment before stepping onto the stage in tights and pumps or in a cat costume with a ridiculous wig and a long tail and too much makeup. That...
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Aug.25.2010
The dark green of a tree In the shade. Leaves tremble in the breeze. Above and beyond up high The blue of a morning sky, The white of slow-moving...
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Nov.14.2010
I wish I had more time to spend writing my novel. It seems all I can do is grab the precious few minutes I can and write when I can. I'm way behind...
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Dec.19.2010
I love the start of a new year. Not the fireworks and the countdown, but the promise of new beginnings and a fresh start. I love drawing up lists of...
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Dec.29.2010
Recent news of the passing away of someone who was very special to me at a rough time in my life has left me devastated. She broke my heart and stole...
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Dec.30.2010
awe
Awkwardly we parted, as ‘friends’ do Never to be in awe of each other again As lovers are in awe of skin and sounds As lovers are in awe of smells...
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Feb.09.2009
Can you remember a time when something unsettling happened to you?  What did it feel like?  The following are memories that shaped my life.  Note: ...
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Mar.30.2009
As I sit here this morning.  My body not coordinating with my brain, I think to our little feline family.  Our masters are Tinker, Spit-Fire and...
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anthony-maulucci's picture
Apr.15.2010
Why is the work of most poets better on the page than on the stage? For me, as many others, the reading of poetry is a private activity, an intimacy...
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Aug.05.2009
The only way to truly enjoy life is to be happy and embrace love. Everyday I am surrounded by furkids who provide me with 100% unconditional love. My...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.