In ‘The Wire’, Idris Elba shone as ‘Stringer’ Bell, a drug ring’s #2 who looked like a young executive, took business classes but who’d ordered the wrong man’s killing. Elba’s…
Good friends invited us over for dinner followed by a DVD. Turns out we watched the wedding concert in honor of the Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden which took place…
From MovieLine via The Daily Beast: the remarkable room in which the future George VI works with his therapist in ‘The King’s Speech’ had seen other film productions. Says MovieLine:…
Seventy-five years after the Civil War began, Sinclair Lewis, America’s first Nobel laureate for literature, feared another national cataclysm: a Fascist takeover. In the course of It Can’t Happen Here…
We tend to think of Abraham Lincoln speaking in sentences Biblical in their complexity and beauty with a deep debt to the King James Version. But Lincoln could make a…
It is almost inconceivable that merchants would sell guns to their country’s enemies which were then turned on its forces with great effect. But it is an old story –…