Arriving in the mail on Monday
A little something to look forward to (mine is on the right)…
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Movies
“I found myself ‘finding’ ‘creating’ and ‘needing’ time to read.”
Awfully kind praise from novelist and blogger Connie Huddleston:
I needed to read an adult book. I chose a very good one. I found myself “finding” “creating” and “needing” time to read. Being an historian, I have studied The Great War, now called World War I; however, that front line horror of war is hard to tell. Griffis brought the story right to me with words that created characters whom I quickly came to enjoy so much I had to read. Set in a military hospital, very near the front line, The Old World is actually the story of a group of about six characters and their existence, their human drama, during the war. The story delivers fear, horror, love,
…5 Deadly Director’s Cuts
Among the many blessings of civilization is the BluRay. BluRays (and DVDs and home video before them) meant that if you loved film, you, too, could finally own a copy of some classic like Casablanca and sigh over its greatness time and again. But like many other gifts of Western capitalist culture, there is a downside.
One of them is the “Director’s Cut.”
Film history would be a lot more boring without the stories of enfant terribles (and later, adult pain-in-the-asses) like Orson Welles battling against the men with the souls of accountants over their art. Most of the time, it turned out the accountants had a wicked right hook and the artist would end up on the …