Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
One Of The Greatest Anti-War War Movies of All Tim Catch-22 (1970) – An American pilot tries everything to be relieved of combat flying, including being certified as insane. The problem is that there’s a catch to that question. An omnipresent, infallible stumbling block to the insanity all around it. Directed by Mike Nichols Starring... Continue Reading →
Where The Boyfriend Is A Jerk, But NOT The Biggest Jerk. The Blue Gardenia (1953) – A young woman has too much to drink and goes back to the apartment of a pickup artist. The next morning, she wakes up to a raging hangover and a dead body. Did she kill him? The early evidence... Continue Reading →
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson (2013) – Spanning four months in 1927, the book takes us on a tour of a year with massive historic and cultural significance. Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic and becomes the biggest star on the planet. The biggest flood in American history wreaks devastation through the center of the... Continue Reading →
The Cooler (2006) – Bernie Lootz is not the man you want to stand next to you in a casino. Bernie is a man shaped jinx. Any luck you had at the table disappears. That makes him precious to the casino that employs him. When a pretty waitress comes into Bernie’s life, things will change.... Continue Reading →
Arabesque (1966) – A college professor with a specialty in ancient languages is drawn into an international crisis. Someone is trying to murder a visiting statesman to stop the signing of a treaty. Or are they? He has no idea who he can trust, including the beautiful wife of a suspect. Directed by Stanley Donen... Continue Reading →
“The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History” by Joel Warner (2023) – In the centuries since its creation, the novel “120 Days of Sodom” has fascinated parts of the book world. A “lost” book, with an infamous author, a history that weaves... Continue Reading →
Urban Cowboy (1980) – A young country boy moves to the big city looking for opportunities. He discovers work in the oil fields, and love in a legendary honky-tonk. Waiting for him are challenges he didn’t expect, including a mechanical bull, and an ex-con rival for his woman. Directed by James Bridges Starring John Travolta,... Continue Reading →
Nothing But The Night (1973) – The trustees of an orphanage are dying in suspicious circumstances. The surviving leadership refuses to read anything mysterious into those deaths. Then all the remaining trustees and 30 orphans die in a bus accident. A retired police detective, a pathologist, and a journalist begin an investigation of what was... Continue Reading →
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891) – A fashionable young man gets a wish fulfilled when his portrait absorbs all the damage and decay of his decadent lifestyle and age. Painted by his best friend, the portrait has all the painter’s feeling for Gray in it as well. This masterpiece becomes the... Continue Reading →
Absence of Malice (1981) – A naïve reporter is tricked into spreading a story about an investigation of Mike Gallagher, a Miami businessman and son of a late mobster. There is no basis to the story, but the impact on Gallagher is profound. He has to find a way to clear his name and maybe... Continue Reading →
Stories Are My Life 