After watching this relative unknown, at least to us here in America, win the Oscar for best actress, I knew I had to watch this film. Always intrigued by Billy Holiday and other unique voices, one name stands alone for me… Edith Piaf. Even with no understanding of French, some voices cross all language barriers [...]

Maybe it’s the cold medicine, but, today’s Ten Post Round-Up has my head spinning:
1: Proof of progress in Iraq: Seatbelts!…
As the Iraqis Buckle Up, We Will Stand Down–Bring It On!
2: Sometimes, doing things the old-fashioned way, really is best…
Exposed: The Great GM Crops Myth–CommonDreams.org
3: Ben Stein’s movie is number 8 with a [...]

Documentary filmmaker Sandy Cioffi entered Nigeria legally on April 5, along with Tammi Simms, her producer; and photojournalists Cliff Worsham and Sean Porter. They were accompanied by Nigerian citizen Joel Bisina, who is the founder of a Warri-based NGO, Niger Delta Professionals for Development.
Cioffi is in Nigeria making a documentary film, Sweet Crude, [...]

In a campaign speech in 2004, former presidential candidate John Kerry described stop-loss as a “backdoor draft.” The new film, Stop-Loss, addresses this policy (the involuntary extension of a service member’s enlistment contract beyond the normal end of their term of service). The film is not anti-war; it is pro-soldier. This is an [...]

The Lives of Others

This one won an Oscar for best foreign language film in 2006, with a highly nuanced and intelligent script this political yet very human film grabs you and does not let go. I cannot say enough about these actors, not a bad one in the bunch .Yet Ulrich Muhe, who plays the [...]

This weeks post is a bit disjointed, as that is how I am feeling and how the world appears to be right now. Yet there is always sinew, some type of connectivity… the trick is to puzzle it out.
The chorus harmonizes the economy is “fine”,but is offset by the falling stock market, a barrel of [...]