Archive for the ‘Old Music’ Category
Media: Film Review — "Ali"
It was a sunny Christmas afternoon in Albany and I decided to give myself a present by driving downtown to watch the new release “Ali.”
This movie is based on ten years in the life of the boxer Muhammad Ali, who is considered one of, if not, the greatest boxer that ever stepped in the [...]
May 13, 2010
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Mormons’ Darkest Day in Spotlight
The date was 11 September. A group carried out an act of religious terrorism on American soil, raining indiscriminate death on innocent people. It remains a scar on the country’s collective memory.
This was the ‘other’ 11 September, in 1857, when fundamentalist Mormon settlers opened fire on a wagon train, leaving more than 120 men, women [...]
May 13, 2010
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Movie Review: Conjuction — The Junction Boys didn’t function
For the first time since the movie, “Forrest Gump,” legendary college football coach Paul “Bear” Byrant was depicted in a movie. This time he was the protagonist in the ESPN movie, “The Junction Boys.”
Bryant was played by actor Tom (”Major League” I & II, “Platoon”) Berenger, and while I am not a “Bear” [...]
May 13, 2010
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Coma versus coma
Almodóvar’s story of two men worshipping two unconscious women is a truly great picture.
Talk to Her (113 mins, 15) Directed by Pedro Almodóvar; starring Javier Cámara, DarÃo Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin
Pedro Almodóvar has been making movies for a quarter of a century now, and like his compatriot and idol, Luis Buñuel, [...]
May 13, 2010
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The Movie Has Landed and Us Basks in the Moonglow
This week four men in their seventies will gather at the American Museum of Natural History in the glitzy Upper West Side of Manhattan. Each looks fit though otherwise unexceptional. The men share only one key feature, albeit a remarkable one: they all traveled to the Moon more than 30 years ago.
On Wednesday, the four [...]
May 13, 2010
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