Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
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 →
The Sacred Cipher by Terry Brennan - (2009) - Hidden inside a sealed room in New York's historic Bowery Mission is a cipher that promises to threaten the stability of the world even after centuries. An unlikely band of experts will gather in Jerusalem to try and find the truth. Assuming they can find it... 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 →
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 →
Love Monkey was a very (VERY) short lived TV series on CBS in 2006. It featured Tom Farrell (Tom Cavanaugh) as an executive at a small record label trying to find his way in the NYC dating scene. "Love Monkey" was a mid-season replacement that only lasted 3 episodes before it was pulled. Eventually the... Continue Reading →
Some Of The Best From Tor.com 2012 Edition - Tor is a great name in the world of scinece fiction and fantasy. This is an annual collection of short works from some of their authors. So it's really a best of the best collection and that's exactly the way it reads. You'll find one part... 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 →
Stories Are My Life 