Expect to see a sequel to Solo: A Star Wars Story despite the disappointing box office receipts for this latest addition to the cinema event which began in 1977. If there is anything Hollywood abhors, it is a once popular franchise going out on a sour note. Remember Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom or anything … Read more
If you’re a Mel Brooks fan, you know the title of today’s post comes from History of the World, Part I (1981) in which Brooks plays a series of historical figures from Moses to King Louis XVI of France. In this last portrayal, Brooks is surrounded by a number of young, buxom courtiers who submit to … Read more
May 29, 2018. Mark this date on your calendar. It is the day on which three totally unrelated events (there’s that synchronicity thing again) signaled the first major crack in the tribal totem pole which has characterized the Trump era. Event #1 Someone much smarter than I am (my daughter) once said to me, … Read more
Friday evening, in a last-ditch effort to save its Memorial Day weekend profits, Publix, “one of the 10 largest-volume supermarket chains in the country,” announced it would no longer make contributions to the campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam. The news came minutes before a scheduled “die-in” organized by David Hogg, a survivor … Read more
I have never spent a day in a classroom in the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, but based on the behavior of one of its undergraduates, there is only one of two possibilities. The faculty of this prestigious institution does not understand the foundations of successful enterprises (which I doubt) … Read more