Keynote speaker, stand-up comic, emcee. Author. Film & TV historian & critic. Lifelong communicator.
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...
Friday, February 24, 2017
Oscars 2017 — Pat’s Picks, Predictions and Potential Threats to Your Pool
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Going to an Oscar party this Sunday night? If so, here is help for your Oscar pool —my fearless predictions for who will win, who should w...
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Oscars 2017 -- Slim Pickings in a So-so Year
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has suggested which movies of 2016 are the best. The result for me is that I am less int...
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