by Minter Dial | Aug 8, 2007 | Entertainment
The New York Observer gave a half page last week to the apparent revival of a close-to-the-brow (“neat and naughty” says the article) haircut made famous by Jane Fonda in the 1971 film Klute, by Alan Pakula. Headlining with Donald Sutherland, Fonda won an...
by Minter Dial | Aug 8, 2007 | Entertainment
This year is the 50th anniversary for Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” As I discovered in crawling some blogs, Kerouac had pretensions on French aristocratic lineage, although apparently his name is Breton. I don’t know about you, but...
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...
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