Valentine’s Day Movies I “There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time” – Jane Austen. Cuddle up with your buddy, significant [...] February 5, 2021
1960s Jazz – Coltrane as Spiritual Modernist In 1957, jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane (1926-1967), had a religious revelation that may have helped overcome heroin addiction [...] February 4, 2021
Stream Selected Films of Henry Fonda The Grapes of Wrath 1940 Based on John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize novel. Directed by John Ford (Academy Award Best Director). An [...] February 2, 2021
Virtual Impossibilities Eric Walton bills himself as a mentalist and magician. If we loosely define the second term as a perpetrator of what can’t logically [...] February 1, 2021
Delightful! All Creatures Great and Small on PBS When my children were small, they were mesmerized by stories about a vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the mid 1930s who tended to animals, [...] January 31, 2021
The Lambs Club Interview: Foster Hirsch and Melissa Newman Melissa Newman, daughter of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, speaks to us from the unassuming Westport, Connecticut house that’s been in [...] January 31, 2021
Little Wars– Terrific Theater June 22, 1940. France and England have declared war on Germany. Gertrude Stein (Linda Bassett from Call the Midwife) and her wife, Alice B. [...] January 30, 2021
Stream Selected Films of Julianne Moore The Myth of Fingerprints 1997 Written and directed by Bart Freundlich (Moore’s long time partner). Though yet another dysfunctional [...] January 30, 2021