Originally published on Facebook July 22 2013, in response to Republican anger President Obama’s comments on the killing of Trayvon Martin. Still broadly applicable. Answering rising tensions in the wake of a Florida Court case involving discrimination against disabled individuals, President Franklin Roosevelt made a deeply emotional speech about his personal experiences with his disability. […]
Is there a film character with a sillier motivation than Carl Weathers in FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE? In that film, serious-minded but inferior belated sequel to one of the greatest men-on-a-mission movies ever made, Edward Fox and Robert Shaw play the surviving protagonists of the original, now sent behind enemy lines to blow up an […]
Look. I’m not going to argue with you about the relative paucity of minority representation at the Academy Awards. It’s a historical problem, going back to the event’s founding, and it needs to be addressed, even if I have little idea how the organization as a whole can easily address a problem based on a […]