YOUNG DONALD TRUMP IN HOLLYWOOD
How would a young Donald Trump handle being grabbed in Hollywood? Powerful men in modern times see themselves above normal rules. It’s the same story of big boys in every era: “You don’t tell ME what...
View ArticleTHE REAL WESTERN AMERICA OUT HERE IN OREGON
The real Western America isn’t Texas or California Readers around the world see the American west through movies. From John Wayne in his cowboy costume, to private eye Jack Nicholson in LA’s Chinatown,...
View ArticleMother Movie Makes You Cry For HGTV, And Your Mommy
From total ruin to a beautiful restoration, Mother! shows a dream house. HGTV does this all the time and no one complains. The Property Brothers find a client willing and able to knock a wall down...
View ArticleHollywood Actors On Silver Screen Changed Forever
Two new movies out have proven Hollywood actors as our betters. They are better than their audience. Paying to see them is one measure, watching them get their asses kicked is another. In both...
View ArticleROLLING STONE AND PLAYBOY BOTH DIED IN 1980. WHO NOTICED?
Growing up in the shadow of the sixties, I turned sixteen in 1970, two magazines ruled the media rack: Rolling Stone and Playboy. Ten years later in 1980 two icons from each were murdered. John...
View ArticleAFFLECK UPDATE: A MAN FOR ALL AGES, OR ALL DONE
Get to a certain age and the realization, if it hadn’t hit yet, of a finite time to make a difference sets in. This Affleck Update serves as a reminder of who to make a difference to. In the...
View ArticleYEARLY AFFLECK APPEAL: WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT NOW
The Hollywood press has ignored the Affleck Appeal, but still proven itself a good movie star pusher. Not all of the stories about movie stars are true, but with a push from the Hollywood press, what...
View ArticleESSENTIAL READING TO IGNORE . . . AT YOUR OWN RISK
One blogger’s essential reading is another’s fire-starter; that’s just how it is. Except the book in Ken Kesey’s hand won’t start any fires today, not the way it started fires in his younger days. What...
View ArticleANNUAL BEN AFFLECK APPEAL FOR 2020
This year the Affleck Appeal gets right to the point: time is not on anyone’s side, except Keith Richards. Now that Keith has given up hard drinking, and standing back from the cigarettes, he would be...
View ArticleUPDATED LIFE: STARTING SOMETHING NEW TO FINISH
An updated life, from new paint, new flowers, to new shoes, asks a question: What was wrong with the old life? Like there had to be something wrong to change things? Yes, that’s usually a good reason,...
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