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When Cary Grant was first offered the lead role in this film opposite Audrey Hepburn he turned it down. He was about to turn 59 (in fact, his birthday occurred during production) and he was afraid he’d look creepy chasing … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2011
I’m a fan of Apple products. I’m typing this on a MacBook Air, which I like immensely. It’s thin and light and easy to carry around. I almost never turn it off. I just close the cover and when I … Continue reading
From the trailer I saw (the one above is better), I expected Tangled to be pretty lightweight, but to my surprise it’s quite good, the best thing from Disney’s animation division I’ve seen in years, possibly decades. by … Continue reading
I fondly remember ordering books from the Scholastic Book Club when I was a kid, and I always had a generally favorable view of Scholastic the company. Who could object to an outfit whose main reason to exist was getting … Continue reading
Political documentaries are the vegetables of film. You know that as a citizen and voter you should probably inform yourself, but you don’t necessarily expect to enjoy the experience. Inside Job is a documentary that explores the origins of the … Continue reading
In late 1994 three French explorers entered a recently discovered cave in southeastern France and were astonished to find the most ancient known paintings on Earth, made about 32,000 years ago, which were in such a magnificent state or preservation … Continue reading
Here’s a remarkable video of some people in a small boat, equipped only with a single little knife, cutting an entangling net off of a humpback whale. The net had pinned the whale’s fins to her sides and entangled the … Continue reading
The major problem facing the U.S. government today is raising the statutory limit on the national debt. Doing this is both urgent and routine — Congress raised it seven times during the presidency of George W. Bush alone — and … Continue reading
To put it mildly, Henry Ford was no socialist. He opposed Roosevelt and the New Deal and fought tooth and nail against an auto workers union. But Ford understood something a lot of today’s business (and political) leaders do not: … Continue reading
In today’s column, conservative writer David Brooks wonders whether the Republican Party has lately gone off the deep end, having been “been infected by a faction that is more of a psychological protest than a practical, governing alternative.” … The … Continue reading