It is not often that a contemplation of a relatively run of the mill — if entertaining — romantic comedy comes with a caveat about family life. Extrapolating one’s extended family situation from a comparison to the Burns clan in “Dan In Real Life” is fraught with peril.
Single father of three girls, Steve Carell, visits […]
While it has passed more under the radar than I might expect, it seems to me that this fake FEMA press conference imbroglio says as much about the ethos of our current administration as any of Karl Rove’s machinations.
Surely you heard, right? During the wildfire havoc in southern California, FEMA staged a fake presser to […]
Who among us when we were in our early twenties didn’t have questions about life, society, our parents, their values? I certainly did, as did most of my compadres.
Christopher McCandless did too. He graduated from Emory in the early 90’s. At which point, his intelligence and bubbling resentment toward his oft-warring parents manifested itself. Rather […]
When I got home last night from Bob Dylan’s latest landing in Louisville, I put on Modern Times. Frankly I hadn’t listened to his last album much. Like most releases these days, by any artist for that matter, it didn’t grab me immediately, so I placed it on the shelf with the myriad of other […]
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