In obvious deference to the widespread civil disturbances in America’s cities ignited this time by the heinous murder of African-American George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis Police Force, the…
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An angel gets his wings ©RKO Pictures It’s that time of the year again; time for Zu-Zu’s petals. But first, a few words on a related “seasonal” film; one…
There have been several Quasimodos, even a cute Disney animated version. The best known were played by Lon Chaney Charles Laughton, Anthony Quinn, and Anthony Hopkins. The movie lore is…
Since I first wrote this essay it has obviously done nothing to reduce the scourge of fantasy films. They continue to pour out of Hollywood and elsewhere to thrill…
An angel gets his wings ©RKO Pictures It’s that time of the year again; time for Zu-Zu’s petals. But first, a few words on a related “seasonal” film; one…
Don’t shoot! I’m white Since it has been all over the media everyone must have some awareness of the incident at he Cincinnati Zoo of the 4-yr-old boy who…
It only took me a couple of minutes to discern that she had not even read my book. The attractive, business-suited Chinese woman sitting across from me at the Pacific…
I loaded my CD of Soldier of Fortune again the other night. It certainly is not a movie of much renown, certainly on nobody’s “great films” list, not even mine…
The crucified Yeshua bar Yusef had no idea (unless, of course, he really was the resurrected son of God, in which case he would have known) that he would be…
In a description I wrote of a character I created for my novel of coming of age Catholic, Stumbling Blocks & Stepping Stones, Nicola D’Annunzio, I characterized his…
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