Saturday, December 27, 2014

Robin Williams remembered by 'Dead Poets Society' producer, screenwriter

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According to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal , actor-comedian Robin Williams' suicide last summer prompted the largest number ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Director Barry Levinson Talks About Making 'The Natural'

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Movie director and screenwriter Barry Levinson is in the entertainment news pages these days because he is making his debut as a musical t...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Sanctions: South Africa, Libya, and the Cuban Embargo

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Today's announcement from Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro about progress toward normalizing relations between the United State...

Has It Been Ten Years Already?

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Today marks the tenth anniversary of my blogging life. Starting here on December 17, 2004, this writing platform has expanded to include...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

12/13/14

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It's December 13, 2014 or, expressed another way, it's 12/13/14. Numerically successive dates only occur twelve times each century...
Friday, December 05, 2014

'Bootleggers and Baptists': An Interview with Adam Smith

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Over on Book Reviews by Rick Sincere is a recent interview with economist Adam Smith of Johnson & Wales University. Smith is the coau...
Thursday, December 04, 2014

Shaft: Richard Roundtree at the Virginia Film Festival

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Richard Roundtree at UVA After a screening of the 1971 Gordon Parks film, Shaft , at the 2014 Virginia Film Festival, actor Richard Roun...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014

From the Archives: A Review of the Revival of 'Chicago' (1997)

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Monday's post about Big Stone Gap , which mentioned cast member Jasmine Guy, reminded me about how, in the last years of the last centur...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Remembering Adolph Green at 100

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A report from NPR's Jeff Lunden today on "All Things Considered" recalls that today marks the 100th birthday of Broadway lyr...
Monday, December 01, 2014

'Big Stone Gap' Cast and Author Visit the Virginia Film Festival

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Ashley Judd, Adriana Trigiani, and Terry McAuliffe Last month in Charlottesville, the director and screenwriter of Big Stone Gap (based...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

A Look Back at the Making of the First 'Peter Pan' Movie (1924)

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With the much-hyped television broadcast of Peter Pan Live! , starring Allison Williams, Minnie Driver, and Christopher Walken, coming up on...