2021-02-07 15:56
With this movie James Cagney became a big film star, and influenced Movie acting for the next 20 years. He had done a few films before this kick in the balls gangster film and even in small… Read More
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2021-02-05 21:17
2021-02-04 16:08
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/nyregion/barry-lewis-dead.html Read More
2021-02-03 20:48
The Literatus just published 5 of my recent mixed pieces. you can view them on pags. 86,87,88,89,90. Will post the images for those who can't download it. Here is the linkhttps://www.m… Read More
2021-02-02 15:28
2021-01-29 17:59
Chaotic Merge Magazine has just published their latest issue with 4 of my drawings. You can view the PDF at this link. My work are on pages 7, 11, 27 and 65. https://drive.google… Read More
2021-01-29 03:37
2021-01-28 17:13
It would be easy for some to dismiss this feel good French movie from 2012 as coy, insulting and yes racist, but I was pretty much charmed by the whole thing mainly because of Omar Sy. This… Read More
2021-01-27 22:26
The wonderful actress Cloris Leachman has passed Read More
2021-01-26 04:34
2021-01-23 20:46
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/walter-bernstein-dead-oscar-nominated-screenwriter-front-blacklist-victim-was-101-1074748?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR… Read More
2021-01-23 04:55
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The film opens in present day as a young woman and her dog discover something shocking in the deep woods of Oregon. Suddenly we are back in the early 1800’s in the same woods as a youn… Read More
2021-01-22 16:07
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Missed his passing in December. His life should be noted. Read More
2021-01-02 16:33
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There is a hell of a lot of talent rolling around in this musical, but it shows its age and some of the political inferences and references are disturbing to say the least. Its the old hey l… Read More
2020-12-31 20:52
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2020-12-28 20:44
Not your parents’ “Perry Mason” so the tagline for this 8 part HBO series goes, which is fine with me. I hated the mid 50’s t.v. series with Raymond Burr which bored… Read More
2020-12-28 14:51
2020-12-25 16:33
Might this be the best television series ever? I finished up the series the other day, forcing myself to binge to near death because Netflix is removing it from streaming on Christmas… Read More
2020-12-24 15:34
2020-12-19 18:51
More of a theatrical event than a movie one, its really a filmed play with two powerhouse performances by Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman. Based on Ma Rainey the gay black blues si… Read More
2020-12-15 04:44
2020-12-15 04:42
Sometimes the best of intentions are not enough, as in the case of this well meaning but vapid and annoying musical based on the Broadway musical. Seeing this loud but not vulgar enough flas… Read More
2020-12-10 18:05
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2020-12-03 17:15
Just saw that this was published in October. Had no idea. well here it is. Poem by Deta Galloway and one of my postcards. https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-deta-galloway/ Read More
2020-12-03 17:10
Poem by Uguw Leonard Elvis along with a photo by me. https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-ugwu-leonard-elvis-2/?fbclid=IwAR2OyhoMrUXeJmK8hOHy2FIDxNtFspr67A07HW47chf_6wFLm8IKTaCG31Q Read More
2020-12-03 14:45
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2020-11-21 18:08
A life well lived. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/books/jan-morris-dead.html Read More
2020-11-21 16:51
If you've never seen the Apu Trilogy you've never seen cinema.Sometimes life imitates art, and sometimes coincidence follows me around. Last week I watched all three films of the remarkable… Read More
2020-11-21 16:00
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2020-11-19 04:45
What can I say? I am a sucker for Sophia, and at 86 she is still a force to be reckoned with. At first its a shock to see her at this age, how could it be? She can't be 86. The film will be… Read More
2020-11-18 05:31
The Great Indian actor has passed. Known for his films with Satyajit Ray and is brilliant in Apur Sansar the third part of the Apu Trilogy. Odd that I just finished watching all three films… Read More
2020-11-16 15:36
2020-11-13 15:26
Better late than never I suppose. They finally notified me. From 2014. https://www.josephinequarterly.com/ira-joel-haber?fbclid=IwAR0V13XOzL7LCXC6BvsDecywFr6_Zx6N7lMMS0PwseykyT3lZ… Read More
2020-11-10 21:02
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I crave a good western. The sound of the horse’s hoofs, the big skies, the good guys and the bad, the determined women trying to make a go o… Read More
2020-11-08 18:03
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When I was around 12, my old dying scary bubbie came to stay with us in our cramped apartment in Brooklyn for a few weeks. She was really sick and it was summer and it was hot. My parents ma… Read More
2020-10-31 14:27
2020-10-30 20:46
A fast and furious cop series set in a distraught crime ridden neighborhood of Berlin that is covered with drugs, murder, and especially racism. The show opens with a corrupt ex… Read More
2020-10-28 17:53
The final film in Roberto Rossellini’s “War Trilogy” takes place in a devastated Berlin after the defeat of the Nazi machine. Once a glorious city it is now a unrelenting r… Read More
2020-10-26 16:47
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2020-10-16 20:07
From the first scene of a nude priest at a private orgy falling down from a heart attack, we know we are in a strange land. That land is the eternal city of Rome and the neighborhood of Subu… Read More
2020-10-14 02:56
2020-10-13 17:42
I totally forgot about this submission, its been so long, so it came as a pleasant surprise to see two of my photos included in the latest issue. https://frontporchreview.com/type… Read More
2020-10-13 16:15
2020-10-10 17:18
The first thing I noticed when I climbed the stairs out of the union sq. subway station on 16th st into the cool fall late morning was how quiet it was. The light was gorgeous and ever… Read More
2020-10-08 03:06
2020-10-05 19:26
I am terribly sad and sorry to post that My good facebook friend Doug Deuchler's wife Nancy of 48 years has passed. I met up with them in the city in 2017 for a lovely day visit when t… Read More
2020-10-03 19:41
2020-10-01 18:16
Nasty fun. The 8 part series now streaming on Netflix is getting some mixed reviews, but I say see it for the look, the horror and the performances. Based on the famous mean nurse from One F… Read More
2020-09-25 04:55
the marvelous painter robert bechtle has died. Please enough of the good and talented leaving us. Please lord give us a Barr, or a McConnell or a louie gomley or best of all trump Read More
2020-09-23 21:25
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2020-09-19 15:45
Now streaming on Netflix is a charming, funny French series placed inside a fictitious talent agency which is filled with a vast array of talented actors and snappy story lines. Inspired and… Read More
2020-09-19 00:57
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The first time I saw this film I had just turned 20, and was living with roommates in a walkup apartment in Chelsea on 19thstreet. Since we lived across the street from the Elgin Theatre I w… Read More
2020-09-01 19:10
2020-08-31 15:10
A complex 16 hour Korean thriller series that involves corruption in the government and corporations along with some murders that should make many people happy. The series takes place in Seo… Read More
2020-08-29 03:10
2020-08-26 18:01
I've joined fine art america and I'm selling art there along with other merchandise with my art on it including tee shirts, journals, and these wonderful coffee mugs. You can see everything… Read More
2020-08-24 20:44
Gilda are you decent? So asks George MacCready right before we are introduced to Gilda played by Rita Hayworth in one of the most brilliant and beautiful entrances in the history of fi… Read More
2020-08-24 03:52
2020-08-20 17:56
2020-08-20 17:53
ira joel haber my old friend Allen Young the writer and gay activist sent me an email today reminding me that it is 33 years today that Our friend Tom Wirth passed from Aids. He was my… Read More
2020-08-19 15:40
Sorry to hear this. I knew him back in the 70's and the last time I saw him was a while ago at a reunion of the Rooms show at P.S. 1 in 2006 that we were both in. I smartly brought the catal… Read More
2020-08-19 15:05
I came across this Italian film last night on Netflix and to say that it seared my mind and heart is putting it mildly. The film based on fact tells the story of a young Italian man wh… Read More
2020-08-18 17:32
2020-08-16 17:20
Just got this beautiful issue of Qwerty Magazine published by the university of new brunswick in Canada. Its quite spectacular and glossy in terms of the printing and production and oh yes… Read More
2020-08-15 14:02
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2020-08-14 15:19
First of all before I start offering up my criticisms of this long 4 year series about the birth of the personal computer and the internet I have to say that I loved this show. Set in the e… Read More
2020-08-12 15:47
A flat and dead on arrival musical that was based on the hit Cole Porter Broadway show of 1953. The film arrived in 1960 in a big Todd AO reserved seat showing. Me as a 12 year old saw… Read More
2020-08-02 04:38
2020-07-31 18:34
A smashing series about the underground ballroom culture that flourished in New York City in the mid and late 80's that gave voice to the mostly African American community of trans, drag per… Read More
2020-07-31 16:23
2020-07-30 03:41
Late teen photograph. Some things never change. Sadly. https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-clark-holtzman/ Read More
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