Back around the late 1800s, when swords were still were still the sidearm choice of “open-carry” and not mere decorations, when soldiers (officer class) hung out with their regiments in…
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Dear Bill, how’s does it feel to have been the butt of a joke for nine years? FOX News big mouth and bigger ego, Bill O’Reilly, likes to write (well…
Doc Martin, the BBC’s series about a London haemophobic surgeon who retreats to a small Cornwall coastal fishing village, Portwenn, as its sole general practitioner, can be enjoyed as simply…
I am a realist. I don’t mean that in a personal sense, because I realize that I am also in many respects also a “romantic.” But, since I define being…
“My parents had a good reason for taking me to the movies all the time, because I had been sick with asthma since I was three years old and I…
The Cinema: a little script INT: SUBWAY STATION, IRT, NEW YORK, MARCH 23, 2014 MEDIUM SHOT: Subway platform and train and modest crowd ACTION. Mark enters the door of the…
Out here in Hong Kong the BBC, beloved as “the Bebe” by some, serves as a largely reliable source of news and information for me. But every so often there…
A review of Portrait of Jennie and films of love found and lost in the City Is it every lonely, searching urban man’s fantasy, on turning some city street corner,…
Listen to: The Persian Gulf Crisis interview with Dan Schorr Dan Schorr’s distinguished journalistic career spanned over six decades, right up until his death last week at the age of…
It is often said of war that its first victim is Truth. In the media circus that surrounds tragedies like that at Virginia tech, the second (or, third, or thirty-third)…