MASH (1972- 1983) One of my favorite memories, growing up in Bowling Green, Ohio, was the daily viewing of MASH. It came on at 7 and 7:30 PM, Monday through Friday and, with few exceptions, my dad and I would watch it together. Following dinner, Dad would watch Walter Cronkite and then one hour of […]
CHINATOWN (1974) Director: Roman Polanski The term ‘Film Noir’ has been used and misused so much that the phrase has come to mean whatever the Studio Marketing Department makes it mean. I distinctly recall Bruce Willis’ tour de farce, Color of Night, promoted as ‘film noir’ (with an insanely dumb mystery Forrest Gump could’ve deciphered) […]
Jake Hansen, an award-winning Investigative Journalist turned Private Eye, has spent seven years trying to forget all he has lost, drowning his sorrows in booze, women and gambling. Fired from The Times for releasing a killed story about the cartels in Los Angeles, Jake has opened a dive bar with his two best friends: Pete […]
As I’ve set off on this Blog journey, I’ve contemplated exactly what it is that I wish to write. I’ve spent the hours, days and months of COVID Quarantine writing more words and pages than I’ve ever written. Yet, although our true selves are told through the characters we create, I’ve not written one word […]
1.) MILLER’S CROSSING (1990) The Coen Brothers The hat flies in the breeze, twisting and turning, ‘Like a Twist,’ and playing out as the perfect metaphor for what is about to transpire. Thus begins Miller’s Crossing, and just as the hat flies through the woods named Miller’s Crossing, during the opening credits, Tom Reagan (Gabriel […]
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