A New Appreciation for Workers Taken for Granted
Essential – absolutely necessary; extremely important. We all like to think that what we do is important. That if we suddenly stopped [...]
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Carmen Dell’Orefice – Formidable Woman, Beauty Icon – Part II
Click to read Part I. In the mid 1960s, Carmen Dell’Orefice met architect, Richard Kaplan. “I married two Richards so it was easier [...]
Carmen Dell’Orefice – Formidable Woman, Beauty Icon – Part I
This profile was created after several, lengthy, in person conversations with Carmen in her cozy living room some years ago. She was [...]
Stream Jack Lemmon
Mister Roberts 1955 Directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy with a great cast. Lemmon is not the star but does a wonderful, light-touch job. [...]
Where is President Jed Bartlet When We Need Him Most?
Over the past seven weeks of “lockdown,” I have been watching way, way too much TV – news in the morning, catch up news at noon over [...]
Stream Grown-Up Love Stories III (Foreign Films)
Jules et Jim 1962 Based on Henri-Pierre Roché’s semi-autobiographical novel. Written, produced, directed by Francois Truffaut. WWI. [...]
Beyond the Pandemic: Taking the Long View with Futurist Cecily Sommers
Last December, a dear friend gifted me a copy of Moshin Hamid’s exquisite Exit West, a dystopian tale of two refugees who escape the [...]
Stream Grown-Up Love Stories II
Murphy’s Romance 1985 Based on the novella by Max Schott. Directed by Martin Ritt. Divorced, single mother Emma Moriarty (Sally Fields) [...]
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