Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
"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 words... Continue Reading →
Torch Song Trilogy (1988) - The screen adaptation of Harvey Fierstein's Tony awarding play of the same name. Arnold Beckoff (Fierstein) is a female impersonator who is desperately seeking love. Fierstein draws heavily on his own life for this warm and touching story. Arnold struggles with his family's issues, his own insecurity, the issues that... Continue Reading →
Modern Times (1938) - The final appearance of Chaplin's classic character "The Little Tramp" and of Chaplin's most beloved movies. The Tramp struggles with the demands of the fast pace of modern life. He ends up in jail for a while on a mistake then he meets a young woman (Paulette Goddard). She's an orphan... Continue Reading →
Vantage Point (2008) - Just minutes into the announcement of a new international anti-terrorist agreement the President of the United States (William Hurt) is shot. The story of what happened is watched through the eyes of a member of the Secret Service (Dennis Quaid), an American tourist with a video camera (Forest Whitaker), a TV... Continue Reading →
88 Minutes -(2007) Forensic psychiatrist Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) suddenly receives a call telling him he has 88 minutes left to live. In his fight to find out who is out to kill him he will confront issues stemming from a serial murder case and his personal life. The solution must be found, in 88... Continue Reading →
Radio Days (1987) - A collection of short stories drawn from Woody Allen's childhood in 1940's New York. A young boy deals with a family of characters who create an interesting world around them. They may fuss and fight a little but it's a world that he remembers with love. The central role of radio... Continue Reading →
The Great Movies by Roger Ebert - The first of a series of books by my all time favorite movie critic. Before he died he added two more to the series. Ebert offers relatively brief (couple pages each) commentaries on movies that he thinks belong in the top tier of films. He admits right off... Continue Reading →
Bringing Up Baby - (1938) - A quiet archaeologist (Cary Grant) runs into a flighty heiress (Katherine Hepburn) who upsets his life in general and brings a leopard named "Baby" into his life. Along the way he discovers that the young woman is also the niece of a woman that is considering donating a million... 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 words... Continue Reading →
Children of Men (2006) - In a dystopian future (only a little more than a decade from now) humanity is faced with total collapse after every woman becomes infertile. The sudden appearance of a pregnant woman pits different political factions against one another while one man tries to get her to sanctuary. I'm always amazed... Continue Reading →
Stories Are My Life 