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Celebrate Abraham Lincoln's Birthday
Celebrate the birthday of our 16th President with some of the classic movies about his life. Ahead of us this are are the Steven Spielberg epic, based on Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin, with Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field, which will be out in Decem
posted 8:00:32am Feb. 12, 2012 |
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Tribute: Whitney Houston
Was there ever anyone more gifted than Whitney Houston? She had the face and voice of an angel. She had beauty, talent, and success including an unprecedented seven number one songs in a row and with Dolly Parton's song "I Will Always Love You" the biggest selling single by a female artist in hi
posted 9:22:32pm Feb. 11, 2012 |
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Trailer: Darling Companion
Kevin Kline, Diane Keaton, and Richard Jenkins star in the upcoming "Darling Companion," about a lost dog, coming in April.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYYoaspzzlg[/youtube]
posted 3:52:01pm Feb. 11, 2012 |
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Maps of Enchanted Places
The Awl has a wonderful illustrated story by Victoria Johnson featuring maps of the imaginary worlds of children's literature. The maps of The Phantom Tollbooth, The Princess Bride, Winnie the Pooh, The Wizard of Oz, The Hobbit, and more are as inviting as the stories that take place there. And
posted 8:00:36am Feb. 11, 2012 |
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Black Reel Awards Pay Tribute to "The Help"
It is an honor and a privilege to be invited to participate in one of my very favorite annual movie awards presentations, the Black Reel Awards, which pay tribute to the greatest achievements of the African-American community to the year in film. For 2011, we are proud to recognize the extraordina
posted 3:47:45pm Feb. 10, 2012 |
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posted October 24, 2009 at 12:42 am
Unless they are as willing to accept responsibility for foolish choices, greedy missteps, or simply cataclysmic management, these yahoos and economic vermin do NOT – N*O*T – deserve any large sums as salary or bonuses. They should be treated exactly as their employees would be if they screwed up on the same scale. After all, they are the front people for the whole company, corporation, or business and are only as good as the employees who work on their behalf. If the business fails it is because they had missed a cue, tripped over their own wallets, or were asleep in the bored (
posted October 25, 2009 at 8:42 pm
I had no idea you were involved in this issue until you were profiled in “The New Yorker” (to which I have subscribed for years) a few weeks ago. I have always respected you as a critic but now I respect you even more as an advocate for fairness.
posted October 25, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Thank you very much, Dennis! People who know me from one of my jobs are often surprised to find out about the other, but I love them both! Your kind words mean the world to me.
posted October 26, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I’m glad to see your views are getting so much exposure, Nell. It’s interesting. I’ve been attending the Noir City D.C. film festival at the AFI Silver Theatre. Yesterday, I saw the film “Gun Crazy” for the first time.
I was thinking how much the folks on Wall Street often seem to resemble the main characters in that film (and in other Noir films that feature doomed lovers that embark on a life of crime because of the excitement).
One of the speakers described film noir as “deterministic” and full of a sense of doom, while my sense as I have watched many of these films is that the characters’ fates are determined by their own bad choices. It seems to me that many on Wall Street and in investment firms are caught up in the “high” of what they are doing much like the “gun-crazed” lovers were, and pretend to themselves (and us) that they just can’t help it.