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Screenings: City of God

June 18th, 2010 · No Comments

The makers of Slumdog Millionaire surely borrowed tone, setting and scenario from City of God.

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Buddhist Tolerance Can’t Buy You Peace
in New York City

June 6th, 2010 · No Comments

More Spalding Gray, this time from Swimming to Cambodia.

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Spalding Gray: “Worser than Hitler, even”

June 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments

I’m thinking about writer, actor, memoirist and monologuist Spalding Rockwell Gray this evening. Today would have been his 69th birthday. I miss his insight and humor, and his remarkably unique view of the world around him.

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Richard to Alice: 25 December 1944 (letter 1)

May 26th, 2010 · No Comments

This is the day…Christmas Day 1944. My first Christmas out of Indiana and our first Christmas – you in Indiana and me thousands of miles away.

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Screenings: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

May 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I did recommend it to my mother, who appreciates a simple story well told, preferably with an unambiguous resolution.

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Richard to Alice: 21 November 1944

May 5th, 2010 · No Comments

Think nothing of it if there are any blotches on the letter. I’ve been lucky so far; but the way the sweat is dripping off my forehead, I don’t think my luck will last.

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Fred FM playlist: 25 April 2010 “Critters”

April 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Approximate playing time: 78 minutes.

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Richard to Alice: 23 October 1944

April 24th, 2010 · No Comments

I love you Sweetheart. About all I do in my spare moments is dream about you and the little place we’ll have after I get back.

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Screenings: The Bostonians

April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

Ugh. Is Henry James unfilmable?

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Richard to Alice: 17 October 1944

April 21st, 2010 · No Comments

I was afraid I wasn’t going to be able to write you today, but Mother Nature was on my side.

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