Documentary, Movies

Capote

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As a biography of a major writer of the 20th century America Capote is an artistic failure. The film covers only a short period in Capote’s life when he researched and wrote In Cold Blood. The script utterly lacked a central requirement of a good biography: make us understand the person better. All we learn image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Walk the Line

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If I had grown up in Nashville listening to country music, it would have been easier to appreciate Walk the Line, a chronicle of the first 30 something years of Johnny Cash’s career. Raised on Rock, Pop and Soul and Classical Music, I could not connect very well with Cash’s music, except for the occasional image [Read More]
Humor, People

Donald Trump vs. Mark Singer

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As far as I am concerned Mark Singer won this pairing hands down. The story gets particularly funny at the end. Singer writes: Never having met Timothy O’Brien, the Times reporter who finds himself on the receiving end of a five-billion-dollar libel-and-defamation suit from Donald Trump, I don’t presume to know whether he’s having fun yet. [Read More]
Astute Observations, Diary

The Dalai Lama and Science

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Last July, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop of Vienna, wanted to turn back the clock in the catholic church. Breaking with two generations of catholic scholars, Schoenborn did his best to portray the teaching of the catholic church as being in opposition to a Darwinian explanation of the development of different life forms (see below image [Read More]
Humor, People

Comedy Central on Cheney’s Hunting Mishap

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The shooting was fertile ground for Jon Stewart, the host of “The Daily Show,” the popular fake news program on Comedy Central. On Monday night one of the show’s correspondents, Rob Corddry, introduced as a “vice-presidential firearms mishap analyst,” said that “according to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush,” and image [Read More]
Curious News, Diary

My Sperm as Big Business

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Until a few weeks ago, I was an innocent virgin as far as the brave new world of fertility clinics was concerned. Now I am thinking about quitting my day job and becoming a professional sperm donor. Granted, I don’t have the brains of Albert Einstein or the athleticism of Roger Federer. But the first image smile image image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

In her Shoes

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Two sisters, Maggie (Cameron Diaz) and Rose (Toni Collette), could not be more different. Maggie gets any man she wants but is not able to hold a steady job and support herself financially. Rose has no success with men and is climbing up the corporate ladder in a high prestige law firm. When Rose finally image [Read More]