by Minter Dial | Aug 4, 2007 | Entertainment
Without doubt, for lovers of 1960s music, Festival Express is one of the greatest newly revealed treasures of that era (although this event actually took place in the summer of 1970). The documentary film, which was released in 2004 (wikipedia link), is about a series...
by Minter Dial | Jul 24, 2007 | Entertainment, WWII
Hats off (if not off with the cuffs). This is, if it is to be believed (and it’s amateur enough to be believable), a great demonstration of how to work a crowd of rowdy male inmates [at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in the...
by Minter Dial | Jun 21, 2007 | Entertainment
Had a lovely dinner the other night with some old school friends. Not that it [old] means anything, but we’ve all known each other for over 25 years. And, judging by some parts of the evening, we certainly were not wanting to act our age. In certain respects, I...
by Minter Dial | Jun 5, 2007 | Entertainment
Yendi and I have been wading through the first series (we’re at #12). When I say wading, it is more like zipping, downing two at a time every time. It’s desperately addictive. Over the weekend in New York I was chatting with my friend Bob and we debated...
by Minter Dial | May 26, 2007 | Entertainment
I have been enjoying the music that never stopped for more than a quarter century. Living in France, or Europe more generally, it is a lonely passion. The Grateful Dead are never played on radio stations here. People typically look at me blankly as I explain the...
by Minter Dial | Apr 19, 2007 | Entertainment
Yendi (my stunning wife) and I went to see “Sur la Route de Madison” (French version of Bridges over Madison County) at the Marigny Theatre. I’d explain it more as: I went to watch Yendi watch Alain Delon… and, as it turned out, it was also...