This past weekend in the Midwest there was more drama surrounding college and professional football than I think comes out in movie theaters any given weekend.
There were 106,033 people in Columbus, Ohio watching USC come from behind about a minute before the game ended to beat Ohio State 18-15.
There were 110,278 people in [...]
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On Thursday on the way home from a shoot I stopped the Barnes & Noble in Iowa City. In the film/theater section I saw the book version of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined. It’s a play I saw last Saturday in New York and it seems like I’ve been blogging about it ever since. [...]
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Until last Saturday afternoon I was unfamiliar with the name Kate Whoriskey. By the time the afternoon turned to evening I was sure that everyone would eventually become familiar with the name Kate Whoriskey. Whoriskey directed Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined which just finished its run in New York. She’s been called “one of the [...]
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Since I’ve been writing about New York for the past ten days it seems fitting that these posts land on September 11. May we never forget the lives that were lost that day. May we never forget the scars left in the wake of the attacks. And may we never forget that we are always [...]
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What do the plays Ruined and Driving Miss Daisy have in common? They both won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and both happened to have been written by graduates of Brown University (Lynn Nottage ‘86 and Alfred Uhry ‘59). I’ve been thinking a lot about Ruined after seeing it last Saturday and for some reason [...]
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A few years ago I read that in this world that there are over 200 civil wars going on at any one time. We don’t hear about most of them because it would be sensory overload. But when things reach a certain level then the press or the government makes Americans aware of what’s going [...]
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“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
Blanche DuBois’ character in A Streetcar Named Desire
written by Tennessee Williams (Univ. of [...]
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Today is a holiday so to give me a break from blogging I’ll put up some photos I took last week in New York. While the full list of films and TV shows shot in New York City would be quite long, my guess is the exterior of this restaurant is the most recognizable.
Though I [...]
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The amount I walked around New York in the past week would be best measured not by miles but hours. I took this shot Saturday from a street vender by the Apple store where midtown meets the upper east side. Looks like Juno is alive and in good company.
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Yesterday I mentioned that the movie On the Waterfront was based on a series of articles by Malcolm Johnson that were published in 1948.
But before Brando could mumbled those famous words, “I coulda been somebody,” and before the eight Oscar awards the film won, and before the script by Budd Schilberg, and even before the [...]
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