Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
The Guest List by Lucy Foley (2020) - A high-profile wedding brings disappointments, secrets, and death to a beautiful island off the coast of Ireland. Will it be “happily ever after” or will someone else die? Here’s the quick way to think of this book. Update F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Great Gatsby” characters to the 21st... Continue Reading →
Stage Fright (1950) - The police suspect Jonathan Cooper of murder. He turns to Eve, a friend with a crush on him, for help. She not only hides him, but goes undercover to investigate the truth.Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Alastair Sim, Richard ToddWhy I Liked It-Just enough from all this... Continue Reading →
The Shape of Water (2017) – At the height of the Cold War, U.S. scientists hide a strange marine creature in a secret laboratory. Is it an animal, or is it intelligent? A lonely young woman stumbles on the secret and begins an unusual relationship. Director by Guillermo del Toro Starring Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer,... Continue Reading →
To The Vanishing Point by Alan Dean Foster (1988) - The Sonderberg family doesn’t know it yet, but this will not be an ordinary road trip. A quiet drive down Interstate 40 becomes a trip into an alternate reality where they pick up an unassuming hitchhiker. It turns out the family has given a ride... Continue Reading →
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) – A power mad media mogul tries to start a war between China and the U.K. to make his network the only news outlet in the world. The British Secret Service sends James Bond to find out who is behind the plot, and put an end to it. Directed by Roger... Continue Reading →
Starting today, the next seven days are my least favorite of the year.What's so bad about seven days in late October? In and of themselves, nothing. This year they are a Wednesday through a Tuesday.But they are days of pain and mourning for me.Today, October 20, is the 21st anniversary of my father's death.Friday, October... Continue Reading →
Brief Encounter (1945) – A bored housewife, and a local doctor meet by chance in a train station. Each lead conventional but dull lives. In their fleeting moments together each Thursday, they find an excitement that brings a thrill, but may also destroy them. Director David Lean Starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard Why I Liked... Continue Reading →
La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) (1960) – A tabloid journalist covers the hedonism of Rome’s elite and becomes a part of it. Slowly drawn deeper into the depths, he faces the choice of where his life will go. Directed by Federico Fellini Starring- Marcello Mastroianni, Anita... Continue Reading →
For those who have followed this blog over the years, you know that every so often I get bored with the look here. I begin to fiddle around and eventually land on something. I imagine that if you happen to drop by on the day(s) I'm playing around the effect could be bizarre. Images appear... Continue Reading →
Our Riches by Kaouther Adimi (2020) (translated from the French by Chris Andrews) The sign in the window at the legendary bookstore "Les Vrais Richesse" reads “One who reads is worth two who don’t” In the city of Algiers in the 1930s, a young man dreams of a place where literature and those who create... Continue Reading →
Stories Are My Life 