It has been unsually hot in Los Angeles, or at least in comparison to last year when I first moved here. I do not recall last summer being so hot here. I know LA is supposed to be hot, but last summer my sister felt chills when she […]
Growing up in the South Bronx conveys and evokes some universal meanings and images to many. There is the image of the “Bronx is burning”. There are the little casitas of the neighborhoods-the huts that looked like the rural parts of Puerto Rico. There were also […]
People thought she was a bit wacky in how she always brought up the movie “Being John Malcovitch“. It was a great movie. It had John Malcovitch in it who is a god. He had been so brilliant in Dangerous Liaisons that his greatness just rubbed […]
Remakes: Here I go again making it my own I woke up this morning thinking about remakes and how we have to make things our own. I am the new boss of an agency that had a longstanding leader. After that leader left, a successor was hired […]
Back in the Movie Saddle Again I went to see Star Wars this past week. I completely had passed on watching Star Wars Episodes I, II and III. The reviews had been horrible and I just stopped going to the movie theaters the last few years. Nothing enticed […]
Growing up, older, and wiser with John Cusack’s Movies I am a big film nerd. I got into film school and then decided to not go and become a psychologists instead. Looking back at my psychologist colleagues throughout the years, I wonder what made me make that turn. […]
Missing my sense of snow My move out to San Francisco means I have to make peace with rolling morning fog, ten degree differences in weather from one section of San Francisco to the next and likely no snow this coming year. Note, I say “likely” considering that […]
I just won’t watch Titanic, ok? Ever since February of this past year, I have been watching bad movie upon bad movie. I have been staying up late as I am addicted to corny, cheesy, bad film. However, I have to say I draw the proverbial line at […]
She put on her pretty lavender dress and her expensive spiffed-up shoes. She was no Clarice Starling. She looked up at the windows which notably shouted that there are haves and have-nots. She was in-between. The lambs have stopped screaming but occasionally they let out a whimper […]
Imsomnia? Don’t watch an Adam Sandler movie at night and 6 other things not to do! Ever since I moved back out to California, I have been having a hard time falling asleep. I don’t even think about falling asleep early. And it is not like I am […]
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