Hello Friends, The first thing you should do is YouTube the song “Flower”, by Moby, and press “play” while reading this review. It’s the very first song I thought of when I sat down to write this piece. It captures the vibe of Jamie Foxx walking across a god-forsaken piece of land holding a rifle…
Hello Friends, The Oscars are fast approaching, and in my push to see as many Best Picture Nominees as possible, I found myself hoofing it over to Williamsburg Cinemas, a few weeks ago, in order to catch one of the very few showings of Silver Linings Playbook that I could find anywhere below 100th St. I rushed…
Hello Friends, Zero Dark Thirty is yet another film I was against seeing, upon the premise that I lived through 9/11, and I didn’t want to relive the experience on the big screen. I was angry that the film was being made, feeling like somehow we were all being exploited, and I certainly wasn’t going…
Hello Beautiful People, Abraham Lincoln… Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States of America. He was president during the Civil War. He was assassinated, shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Theater. He was tall, and wore tall top hats. He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Most of…
Hello Beautiful People, I have grown up around theater. I have seen Les Misérables on Broadway seven, no eight times. My dear friend, Joanna Howard, was Cosette in the national tour from 1992-1994. Some of my earliest memories are singing Castle on a Cloud and On My Own around the piano at Christmas parties. Only later…
Hello Friends, This past Friday, the world got a glimpse into the life of Ethel Kennedy. Ethel is the wife of the late, great Robert F. Kennedy. She is the mother of eleven children: Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend, Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., David Anthony Kennedy, Mary Courtney KennedyHill, Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, Mary Kerry Kennedy,…