With four days left before the 2018 mid-term election, both sides are bringing out the big dogs. And much is being said about the difference in tone between Donald Trump’s message of fear and the re-emergence of former President Barack Obama’s call for hope and change. But it is not just their words which … Read more
Eighty years ago tonight, October 30, 1938, one Welles (Orson) staged a radio theater production of another Wells’ (author H. G.) science fiction classic The War of the Worlds. Tonight, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News brings you an updated version La Guerra de los Mundos. Below is an excerpt from the highly guarded script, obtained from Russians … Read more
In the past two years, several pundits have referenced the 1976 movie Network. Paddy Chayevsky’s Oscar-winning screenplay under Sidney Lumet’s direction is a tour de force, tracing the evolution of television journalism from reporting the news to entertainment and punditry. In some corners, it has been described as a visionary prediction of the rise of 24/7 cable news. It … Read more
SPOILER ALERT The Others, a 2001 film starring Nicole Kidman, takes place at the end of World War II in a remote house in the Channel Islands. The matriarch of the family Grace(Kidman) and her two children eagerly await the return of her husband Victor and their father from the battlefront. Meanwhile, they experience a … Read more
Once again, the media and the Democratic Party recently proved the counter-intuitive adage, “With enemies like this, who needs friends.” Consider the following. Tennessee Senate Race On October 5, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee Phil Bredesen announced, that if he were the incumbent, he would vote to confirm then Supreme Court nominee … Read more