Paul Newman RIP
Grace. Intelligence. Sex appeal. Edge. Humor. Utter physical beauty. He had it. Paul Newman died on Sept. 27 at his home in Westport, Conn., at 83. New York Times tribute page, New York Times audio slide show Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) – Maggie and Brick More of Newman’s classic scenes and the […]
My name is Lisa
Today is World Alzheimer’s Day. “My Name is Lisa” is a prize-winning short film about Alzheimer’s Disease, which causes gradual memory loss and is still without a cure. The filmmakers say 250,000 children, age 8-18 are caregiving for someone with Alzheimer’s or dementia. It’s very hard on kids, though my nieces and nephews will probably […]
Food Fight
Love in a Backward World
This five-minute film tells the story of a couple who spot each other on a crowded street and fall in love. Although everyone else in the world around them moves backwards, they move forward, and so find each other. For Angela & Ulrich.
Heath Ledger: The Joker
When Heath Ledger (April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008) died, the world lost one of its most exciting dramatic actors. In The Dark Knight he gave a chilling, spot-on performance of the Joker, a character who kills for pleasure, and said it was the role he’d had the most fun ever playing. Fun? The […]
Moon River
Home from the Isar, this song still on our lips. Audrey Hepburn sang “Moon River” in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s“, the film based on the book by Truman Capote. Mercer and Mancini wrote the song for her limited vocal range — which is why we can sing it together. Hepburn plays Holly Golightly, the glittering socialite, […]
WALL-E
700 years into the future, mankind has left Earth to live in outer space. But before leaving we built and left behind a robot to clean up after us. WALL-E stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earthglass, as the advertisement by the (fictional) Buy-n-Large Corporation, the producer of the handy robot, explains. “So sit […]
