A 71-year-old woman, Karen McGee, with hearing problems was at the airport in Austin, Texas waiting for her connector flight. Because her hearing aids weren’t working properly, she sat facing the gate where she thought she would see when to board her flight. Little did she know there had been an announcement of a change.Continue reading “It Shouldn’t Be A Crime To Be Disabled”
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‘The Outsiders’ At 40 Stays Gold
When Tulsa area teen S.E. Hinton got her first novel The Outsiders published in 1967, there were already concerns over the novel. The term “young adult novel” probably hadn’t entered into the literary world. Even Judy Blume hadn’t published a book yet. She had wrote it while still in high school as she was upsetContinue reading “‘The Outsiders’ At 40 Stays Gold”
‘Batman: Damned’ Takes The Dark Knight Down A Different Path
With the news that a Florida principal had to resign following people being upset that Michaelangelo’s David was considered pornography, it seems at one time there was an outcry over Batman’s penis in Batman: Damned, a darker story of the Caped Crusader for a more mature audience. While Bruce Wayne’s wang was darkened for publicationsContinue reading “‘Batman: Damned’ Takes The Dark Knight Down A Different Path”
‘In The Mouth Of Madness’ Spins A Tale Of Hallucinations, Monsters And Murder
For a while, John Carpenter seemed to be on fire. After a small start in the 1970s with Dark Star and Assault on Precinct 13, he made Halloween in 1978 and spent the next 10 years banging out a movie almost every year, as well as the 1979 Elvis television movie, the first collaboration withContinue reading “‘In The Mouth Of Madness’ Spins A Tale Of Hallucinations, Monsters And Murder”
‘Tropic Thunder’ Sounds Off The Brutal Savagery Of Hollywood Filmmaking
One of the most popular topics among filmmakers is to poke fun at Hollywood. Sometimes, it works with movies like The Player and Bowfinger and sometimes it fails like most recently Babylon. As the TV show Community boldly said people grow tired of movies about making movies about making movies. But a movie like TropicContinue reading “‘Tropic Thunder’ Sounds Off The Brutal Savagery Of Hollywood Filmmaking”
‘Boston Strangler’ Lacks Thrills Of Investigative Journalism In Drab Movie
Watching Boston Strangler, you’d think the sun never shines in New England. And no one wears pastel colors at all. There’s so many drab and dull outdoor scenes of clouded skies, you’d think the movie was filmed in Siberia. Why couldn’t they just film this in black and white since everyone wears dark colors. It’sContinue reading “‘Boston Strangler’ Lacks Thrills Of Investigative Journalism In Drab Movie”
‘Triangle Of Sadness’ Is Lipstick On A Pig
Back when he was campaigning for President in 2008, Barack Obama once said, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.” People thought he was referring to Sarah Palin who had made a lipstick comment earlier that year. Was he calling her a pig? Who knows? Who cares? Palin begat MichelleContinue reading “‘Triangle Of Sadness’ Is Lipstick On A Pig”
‘Wild Things’ At 25: How A Sleazy Movie Got So Many A-Listers And It Worked
When Wild Things hit theaters in 1998, it was the first day of Spring March 20 and the movie had numerous A-listers on the cast in a movie that includes greed, sex and murder. Wild Things seems like one of those movies you’d come across on Skinemax with Shannon Whirry, Shannon Tweed and Andrew StevensContinue reading “‘Wild Things’ At 25: How A Sleazy Movie Got So Many A-Listers And It Worked”
Curbing Child Labor Laws To Get Around Paying Employees Better Wages
Last year, the Braums restaurant and market in nearby Tahlequah, Okla. went up in flames. It has since been renovated and reopened. I noticed about a month or so before the fire happened in late April of 2022 there were advertising for employment. They listed that people who were still in high school or underContinue reading “Curbing Child Labor Laws To Get Around Paying Employees Better Wages”
‘I Want To Dance With Somebody’ Never Finds Its Right Moves
It’s been more than 15 years since Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story pretty much parodied the musical biopic format. And after last year’s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, you’d think some filmmakers would take a different approach. Whitney Houston passed away unexpectedly in the spring of 2012. She was only 48. Somehow, the rightContinue reading “‘I Want To Dance With Somebody’ Never Finds Its Right Moves”
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