Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
- Anne de Lenclos
Today was a good day for tours. So all of you that DIDN’T come visit me – pooh on you.
The weather was perfect, there was lots of activity to see, lots of actors around, and no grumpy guests! Yay!
But the best part of my day happened at the end of my last tour.
I was waiting [...]
All Quiet on the Western Front (the 1930 version) is based on the book of the same name, which was written by the German author Erich Maria Remarque.
The book is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young ‘unknown soldier’ in the trenches of Flanders (which reminds me [...]
The second film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture was a film called The Broadway Melody. It holds the distinction of being the first sound film to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Not bad for being MGM’s first feature-length film to have sound. It’s also the first all-talking musical feature. I guess [...]
My dear friend Nick found a piece of paper at work, no larger than an index card, that had these words on it:
I ain’t draft dodging. I ain’t burning no flag. I ain’t running to Canada. I’m staying right here. You wanna send me to jail? Fine. You go right ahead. But I ain’t goin’ [...]
I am starting a new project.
At the encouraging of Nick, Marci, Daniel and a few others at work, I have decided to jump in and tackle the list of films that have won the award for Best Motion Picture at the annual Academy Awards ceremony.
I am starting at the beginning, and I will watch every [...]
Ever since Charlie Pace’s “death” on my tied-for-first favorite television show Lost, I have been steadfast in my belief that Charlie is not really dead.
I’ve been laughed at, mocked, ridiculed, and smacked upside the head, but I’ve held firm.
When, tell me WHEN, in the entire history of Lost, has a dead body ever really been [...]
On Sunday, March 12, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt began a series of public radio broadcasts that came to be known as “fireside chats.”
Over the next eleven years, President Roosevelt would make at total of thirty speeches, averaging one speech every couple of months.
The fireside chats were a way for President Roosevelt to connect with [...]