Dec
17
OVERLOOKING THE OVERLOOK
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) is so embedded in popular culture—probably now more so than ever—that it
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Dec
16
I WON'T SHED A TEAR
“The Bible says, ‘In the midst of life we are in death,’” — Mr. Quidaciolu (Stand By Me).
The tragic irony
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Dec
11
MY BABY SHOT ME DOWN
If Beatrix Kiddo, a.k.a. The Bride, played by Uma Thurman in Quentin Tarantino's martial-arts extravaganza Kill
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Dec
05
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
On June 2, 1962, Frank Sinatra paid a visit to the RNIB Sunshine House School for Blind Children in Northwood,
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Dec
03
SQUEALER
Though George Orwell's 1984 gets the lion’s share of comparisons with our modern dystopian digital age, Animal
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Dec
01
FULLY ROASTED
Up there with Richard Burton's legendary reading of Under Milk Wood and Laurence Olivier's iconic rendition
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Nov
30
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
Rosencrantz: Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In
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Nov
29
DON'T YOU LOVE FARCE?
Comedy of Manners in a Time of Upheaval: Strauss, Bergman, Sondheim, and Mozart
Mostly by coincidence and partly by design,
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Nov
23
SAILING BY
You really cannot overstate the effectiveness of the boat (or ship) as a metaphor for our lives. We all set
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Nov
21
THE LURKER
The tall, scarecrow-looking man had cleared out the entire bar, including all of its loyal customers, and now it was
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