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So here's my take on politics: We all have our opinions. Hopefully, they're educated opinions (not just the lock-step bleating of the flock you choose to be a part of. Warning: it's hard to see clearly through all that wool). It's easy to get fooled. The people who want our vote or donation or whatever are very good at dressing up their cause or crusade or campaign in pretty words and catch-phrases. It's easy to get dazzled. But remember that old adage about Hollywood: scrape off the fake tinsel, and underneath...you'll find real tinsel. Some concepts - and people - are phony to the bone.
But, in my opinion, politics should never keep artists, writers, musicians and other creatives apart. Respect the talent! Celebrate the achievement. You don't have to agree with any given artist's opinion or be a part of their bandwagon. Disagreeing with their offstage political activities doesn't make you lesser, or disloyal. Because the most important component of being an artist is to be yourself.
Politically, I'm an independent. Fiercely so. Wouldn't have it any other way. You don't like it? I don't care. Just being myself.
Here, I'll let Judy Garland say it - or rather, sing it - for me. This is my second-favorite Judy Garland song (it shouldn't be hard, once you've seen my gallery, to guess what my favorite is). And in this case, it's not just the medium that sells it for me, it's the message. Enjoy!
Laughing beneath the tears.
What do you do when someone who's always made you laugh...makes you cry?
And if that happens, can that someone ever make you laugh again?
Well. Yes. But there's a trick to it. Allow me to digress for a moment.
One of my favorite fantasy films is "The Wizard of Oz".
Perhaps one of the reasons so many love this movie is the poignancy of Judy Garland. Poignant, not just because of the incredible authenticity and sincerity of her performance of the earnest and innocent Dorothy Gale, but because of the tragedies that haunted the actress later in her life.
It's hard to watch her buoyant, effervescent portrayal of a simple farm girl lost in a b
Laughing in the dark
I remember the first time I saw "Ghostbusters". As I sat in front of my TV, laughing at Rick Moranis' geeky pursuit of Sigourney Weaver, and at Bill Murray's interaction with an apparition with an enormous appetite ("He slimed me!"), I wondered why scary stuff always makes comedy that much funnier.
I was already a fan of the old Abbott and Costello comedy-horror films. Films like "Hold That Ghost" and "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein".
A modern-day equivalent of that type of "laughing in the dark" comedy team might very well be Dipper and Mabel from the delightful "Gravity Falls".
But "Ghostbusters" created a new kind of horror-comed
Goodbye, Mr. Christmas
Arthur Rankin Jr., creator of the immortal Christmas TV specials "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman", has passed away at age 89.
Interesting...Rudolph was animated via "Puppetoons" - a stop-motion style of puppetry, while "Frosty" was animated via traditional 2D limited animation. Both were so well-done, that, 50 years after their debut, the two specials still get stellar ratings, according to the Hollywood Reporter:
(Rankin's) holiday specials air every year and always draw a crowd. In December, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which debuted in 1964, and Frosty the Snowman, which premiered in 1969, were broadcast by CB
You are NOT just a misfit
An icy January blast tore at my coat as I hurried on my way to work. I noticed that the Christmas street decorations had been taken down, and in a way I was relieved. My wife was suffering from a long illness and I didn’t feel very festive.
I was glad to get inside the foyer of the Montgomery Ward building. In the elevator I leaned back and listened to the younger men eagerly discuss their work.
“And how are you starting the new year?” I glumly asked myself. Here I was, heavily in debt at age 35, still grinding out catalogue copy. Instead of writing the great American novel, as I’d once hoped, I was describing men&rsqu
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yeah I have to agree elections can get crazy.