Monday, February 3, 2020

Oscar 2020: The More Things Change…

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The Oscar ratings were in the toilet, so the Motion Picture Academy increased the nominated films from the traditional five to as many a...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

The 2019 Oscars May Resemble the 2019 Super Bowl (And this is not a complimentary comparison)

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A few weeks ago, I sat out the Super Bowl because I found the game to be tainted. One team got into the big game because of a blown call...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Green Book and Ham

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 Race Relations Made Easy and False NOTE: This dissection of the film Green Book refers to a few plot points. If you have not seen the fi...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Waiting for Sweetpea -- An Embryo by Any Other Name

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What do you call a baby that hasn't arrived yet, and hasn't reached full capacity?  This was my dilemma when our daughter Julia an...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Waiting for Sweetpea

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Part 1 -- Annunciation In spring 2018, our daughter, Julia, and Matt, her husband of 18 months, conducted an ambush on my wife and me. J...
Friday, August 10, 2018

Baby Boomers -- Fools for the City

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How do you like the new view that my wife, Marie, and I have? Or our new neighbor, Billy Penn, who looms over our new home in Philadelph...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

Among Oscar’s Slimmer Pickings, (Just) a Couple Stand Out This Year

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I’m getting worried. This is the second year in a row that I am unenthused about the Oscar nominees. I am starting to believe that it’s th...