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on many days, you can’t trust anyone or believe anything you hear or read anymore.

Well, these things do happen occasionally along the way. Was going to drop off my tax at the office tower adjacent to Sutton Place Hotel this morning. Pressed the first letter for the tax office name and his name came … Continue reading →

Ah, the many possibilities each day as one moves through life! We go through a lot on our little human journeys. Lindsay Anderson’s 1973 film classic, O Lucky Man!, remains a primer of what happens to many of us as … Continue reading →

Crokinole. (getting ‘skunked’ by my grandson)

who today wrote a piece on populist politics using Ralph Klein as an example. Sorry, Rex. Klein was a despot who took millions from education to finance horse-racing, which he was involved with. Beginning in the 1990s, he unilaterally gutted … Continue reading →

“Long and long has the green grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.” –Walt Whitman (one of the first panorama views (looking toward Laurier Park) that I fell in … Continue reading →

It took a lot of guts for famed producer Dino de Laurentiis to make yet another Hollywood-styled, religious epic based on the Passion of Christ story, but he did with the very ironic, massively conflictful Barabbas, starring Anthony Quinn as the … Continue reading →

It’s not often that I get a chance to talk with him at the bottle depot where he works, but I’ve known him for about a decade now. A very friendly guy, always smiling, who is originally from Palestine, Bet … Continue reading →

Robert Osborne, host of Turner Classic Movies, who died peacefully yesterday at age 84. A knowledgeable film historian, a congenial host and interviewer. As the Old Guard continues to pass, it’s time again to say “They just don’t make ’em … Continue reading →

A work of art for sure. Anatomy of a Murder, Otto Preminger’s remarkable humorous whodunit with one of the tensest, strangest, funniest, and most provocative courtroom dramas ever, still 58 years later. Talk about perfect casting. James Stewart as Paul … Continue reading →