Monthly Archives: March 2018

This British production directed by Michael Anderson is well-cast with Edmund O’Brien as a naive Winston Smith, Michael Redgrave as a quietly deadpan torturer O’Connor (called that because of Edmund O’Brien’s casting), and Donald Pleasence as the oddball Parsons. It covers … Continue reading →

–Thoreau

–Stanley Kubrick (Kubrick’s classic film brought a lot of imaginative light to the darkness of man’s ignorance about space and his destiny)

(my signed copy of his autobiography) (the Ministry of Silly Walks watch my daughter gave me) John Cleese, star of Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers. Saw him in Edmo several years ago at U of A’s Students’ Union … Continue reading →