Monday, January 7, 2013
'Gangster Squad'
'GANGSTER SQUAD' is coming to the movie houses, this Friday, Jan. 11. It will be a good film. Looks like mighty good work by Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling and Josh Brolin. This history-flavored movie should entertain lots of us.
Sonny Stitt
TODAY IS GREAT! I am listening to the fine sleek jazz artistry of Sonny Stitt on saxophone, His robust wild sound is profound. I like innovators like Sonny Stitt and Art Pepper.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
My Youngest Son's Birthday
TOMORROW is an important day! My youngest son...(if he were still here)...would have been 39 tomorrow. He passed away on Sunday, March 13th 2005. I think about him all the time. He was a great man...a tremendously talented writer and a creative, great soul. He succumbed to cancer after a long battle. When we lose a child it is horrible. But somehow we have to keep going and praying and trying to find a bit of hope. Let us all remember to enjoy life and also to be loving toward our people.
Julianne Hough
LOOKING FORWARD to February. The great one, Julianne Hough, has a new movie coming out, entitled, "Safe Haven.' I am a romantic so I know I will like this one. The film is based on a story by the wise Nicholas Sparks, the man who did 'The Notebook.' I enjoy the work of Julianne Hough, a really talented soul.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Seven Days in May, A 1960s Thriller
THE 1960s PERIOD was such a huge scare almost all the time. The other night I watched the interesting John Frankenheimer-directed film, 'Seven Days in May' and it was quite a vigorous tour de force as the canny pundits might say. This movie has to do with a wry plot to make gigantic difficulty take place and the good guys are hard to figure out in this slick cinematic recipe. There is a heady mix of fine acting in this big, brazen film. Burt Lancaster is the strong, Gen. James Mattoon Scott, Kirk Douglas is the wry, Col. Martin "Jiggs" Caseyband and Ava Gardner is the sensuous, Eleanor Holbrook. The 1960s had so much confusion as a constant bit of filmic thematic material. The underlying vile jumpiness in this big old film is the fear of a sneak attack. The mean vicious hunks of 1960s living put many of us on edge as we remember and contemplate all the sordid aspects that were then and still are a part of contemporary roughhouse geopolitics.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Political Culture and Stock Surprises
THE LAST FEW DAYS have been wild. The F. Cliff negotiating has been bizarre and then today the stock situation got abrupt and oddly healed itself for a little while..The Dow rose 308 today...What an unusual state of affairs we are in...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
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