Anne
Anne She was a quiet girl, soft of face soft of movement, and her long brown hair often curtained her eyes so as to be soft [...]
Twice-(Thrice-?Umpteenth-?)Told Tales of the Great White North
Let me pose a question: for a movie to qualify as “re”watchable does it first have to be watchable? What about Stupid [...]
Have Guitars, Will Travel
Then someone said, "You guys get up there." Bud and I looked at each other. Why the hell not?
We Love Movies
We see lots of movies throughout the year; this year we even attended three film festivals, though many of those films tend [...]
McGovern, 1972
I was eligible to vote in my first presidential election in November, 1972. At that time, I was a Junior at Brandeis [...]
Stardust… golden… caught in the devil’s bargain
I’m writing this on the day after the Electoral College met and actually, officially, chose that awful man to be the [...]
Jason Warner
Let me begin by saying that I have not widely shared this story; perhaps I’ve told a handful of people, total, in my [...]
Memories
I keep memories. The photo is me in 1972 wearing a cherished dress brought from Russia by my maternal grandmother in 1906. It [...]
Sisters 2025
As I savor the feel Of the radiating warmth From the the flow of Electricity that I often Take for granted I think of [...]
Celluloid Heroes
“Everybody’s a dreamer, everybody’s a star,” sang the Kinks in their 1972 song “Celluloid [...]
Woodstock, a Movie Best Seen Stoned
Seeing the documentary movie version the summer of 1970 shaped my Woodstock experience.
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