Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
Enemies - A History of the FBI by Tim Weiner (2012) - Pulitzer Prize winning writer and journalist Tim Weiner looks at the long history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as an intelligence agency. From the very earliest days, the Bureau made gathering information about threats to their vision of the United States a... Continue Reading →
Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine by George M. Taber (2009) In 1976 the French wine making industry was certain of two things. First, that no one was their equal in wine. Second, that the Americans in California were certainly NOT even close. A small tasting... Continue Reading →
Still tyring to get caught up on books, so doubles for another week. Cult Sci-Fi Movies by Danny Peary (2014) - Ten essays on some of the best science fiction movies of all time. This book is one of a series of books on cult films (Horror, Crime, Midnight Movies). Here he takes on an... Continue Reading →
The Monuments Men (2014) - The story of members of the Allied forces in World War II tasked with finding and saving art work and buildings in the midst of the war. They also had to track down and return the thousands of pieces of art stolen by Nazi forces. Every once in a while... Continue Reading →
The Great Escape (1963) - A group of Allied soldiers with long records of trying to escape from German POW camps are transferred to a camp specifically designed to contain them. They begin to plan the largest prisoner escape of the war. Based on a true story. Welcome to another "spot the stars" movie. The... Continue Reading →
1776 (1972) - America's Founding Fathers and the history around the creation of the Declaration of Independence are turned into a musical. The personalities and conflicts that eventually led to one of the greatest documents in American history come together in song and comedy. This is an interesting movie in many ways. Most of the... Continue Reading →
A World On Fire by Amanda Foreman (2012) - We all learned about the American Civil War. Lincoln, the Confederacy, Gettysburg, slavery and Appomattox. When we got a little older we may have learned a little more, that it wasn't quite so cut and dried and that the war was an enormous bloodbath that forever... Continue Reading →
The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward - (2014) - To most Americans the words "The Profumo Affair" probably mean nothing. You would have to be a follower of English political history or a student of Cold War espionage to know it. In the early 1960's it was a political scandal that rocked the Conservative government... Continue Reading →
Argo - (2012) - Based (somewhat loosely) on the rescue of six Americans that escaped from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran at the beginning of the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1980. A plan to get them out under cover of a fake movie company working on a movie called "Argo". The question is always will... Continue Reading →
"The View From the Phlipside" is a media commentary program airing on WRFA-LP, Jamestown NY. It can be heard Monday through Friday just after 8 AM and 5 PM. The following are scripts which may not exactly match the aired version of the program. Mostly because the host may suddenly choose to add or subtract... Continue Reading →
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