Category: community and culture
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Roses and Thorns
I’m not the only one who questions the success of the new Roses adaptation by Tony McNamara, but I might be more intrigued by its intention. This movie, which is a remake of the 1989 one by Michael J. Leeson and 1981 novel by Warren Adler, focuses on the relationship between Theo, an architect whose…
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Entertaining Enough
Most top critics seem to like Caught Stealing, a dark comedy crime thriller written by Charlie Huston, directed by Darren Aronofsky, and set in the late 1990s New York City, but I expected, or wanted, more. Henry “Hank” Thompson, a functioning alcoholic bartender, and former high school baseball phenom, who relocated to NYC after losing…
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Encore or Expected?
This week is my first week of retirement, and I’ve been wondering for the last nine months or so what comes next. I certainly understand the appeal of a leisure life. I also believe that I have ten or more potentially productive years. Some suggest that an inevitable professional decline starts sooner than most think…