Published on http://brightlightsfilm.com The Lone Ranger Rides Again . . . or Not At All “Westerns are difficult to sell to modern audiences. ‘The Long Ranger,’ directed by... Read more
“Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.” –Hippocrates Manifold are thy shapings, Providence! Many a hopeless matter gods arrange. What we... Read more
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained ” Django Unchained was the subject of controversy due to its use of racial epithets and depiction of slavery; many reviewers have defended th... Read more
Published on http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com Gulliver’s Travels in Food, Farming & Cuisine: Chronicle Three Over the years I’ve remarked that what Americans do to food is not just gr... Read more
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes... Read more
Published on http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com Gulliver’s Travels in Food & Farming: Chronicle Two “[O]ur culture’s food madness tips into food psychosis, at least among those with kee... Read more
In a mock recreation of the conditions in the air that pilot William “Whip” Whitaker, played by Denzel Washington in the film Flight (2012), faced, all of the ten tested crashed the plane an... Read more
Published on http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com My maternal grandmother grew tomato plants in huge coffee cans on a rooftop veranda in Brooklyn. Before that in a town called Patti (Greek fo... Read more
The mesmerizing character at the still center of Martin Scorsese’s film Hugo is the Automaton. It’s eerie in the sense of awesome, awesome in the sense of both numinous and creep... Read more
Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist (2011) has so far reached a $25 million return compared to about three times that amount by The Descendants. (1) Alexander Payne’s The Descendants (2011) won... Read more
The longest-serving Senate leader is relinquishing his post in the next Congress and planning to use his influence in ways that could put him at odds with President-elect Donald J. Trump. [...]
Natalie Harp, a 33-year-old former anchor on a right-wing cable show, is poised to become the gatekeeper for information to and from the president. [...]
Steve Witkoff’s involvement with two sovereign wealth funds as he bought and then sold Manhattan’s Park Lane Hotel demonstrates the potential conflicts his new role will present. [...]
The president-elect has named wealthy financiers for key economic positions, raising questions about how much they will follow through on promises to help the working class. [...]
Donald J. Trump is set to regain office without clarity on the scope of presidential immunity and with a lingering cloud over whether outside special counsels can investigate high-level wrongdoing. [...]
The administration is pressing the World Anti-Doping Agency to allow an outside audit after it failed to suspend Chinese swimmers for positive tests. [...]
