Europe, Travel

High above the Pyrenees

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The Pyrenees Mountains form a natural border between France and Spain. From the window of my aircraft the eye catches a spectacular sight. In the row next to me sits a woman with a small dog in her arms, holding and caressing it as if it were a human baby. She puts the head of image [Read More]
Humor, People

In Heaven we are all Celebrities

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I personally think that heaven will be like being at the comedy club all day long.  But I seem to be alone in that belief. Barbara Walters interviewed big and small people about what they think is going to happen after death. Here is what they said: By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN (NYT) ‘Heaven Yes – to cut to the [Read More]
Astute Observations, Diary

Transfixed in the Cineplex

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DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN explains in the WSJ review of “The Power of Movies” what happens when we are at the movies. Seduced, disturbed, beguiled—something strange and compelling happens when we watch a movie: When my daughter was four years old, we took her to see “The Wizard of Oz.” She emerged from the darkness transformed: [Read More]
Drama, Movies

A Good Woman

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For all you fans of Oscar Wilde, here is a movie that you will enjoy. Wilde’s successful play “Lady’s Windermere’s Fan” (1892) was recently turned into a motion picture with Scarlet Johansson and Helen Hunt in the leading role. Not having read Wilde for over a decade, I ravished listening to witty dialogs about marriage image [Read More]
Movies, Phantasy

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Charlie is charming poor boy who lives not far from the world largest chocolate factory. Besides mom and dad, the four grandparents stay in Charlie’s small Hansel and Gretel house whose holes in the roof provide Charlie more with a sense of adventure than discomfort. Presenting an unusual picture of inter-family bliss, the four grandparents image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Sophie’s Choice

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A few years after the Second World War, a young writer moves from Virginia to New York. Rents are too high in Manhattan. (Doesn’t this sound familiar?). So he settles in Brooklyn, renting a room from an elderly lady in a pink Victorian house that seems to attract eccentric people like a light pulp attracts image [Read More]
Humor, People

The Top 10 Bizarre Children Names of Celebrities

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1 Moon Unit – Frank Zappa 2 Apple – Chris Martin/Gwyneth Paltrow 3 Misty Kyd – Sharleen Spiteri 4 Geronimo – Alex James 5 Heavenly Hirani Tiger Lily – Michael Hutchence/Paula Yates 6 Dandelion – Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) 7 Dweezil – Frank Zappa 8 Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q – Bono (U2) 9 Zowie Bowie – David Bowie 10 Rufus Tiger – Roger [Read More]