Traveling through busy DFW airport, I felt as though I was wading into the miasma of contagion, but had an uneventful trip home and came out the other side no worse for the wear. I was not sure what to expect next, but certainly it was not that a year later I would still be ...
Movies are a great companion. I love more than I can say in words the places that movies can transport a person. I have all kinds of complicated emotions about Woody Allen the person, butThe Purple Rose of Cairois proof that he gets the power of film to take us away from the every ...
For instance, in one study, participants who were induced to trigger different moods were presented with computerized 100-frame movies in which the first frame always showed a face expressing a specific emotion (e.g. happiness). The facial expression gradually became neutral over the course of ...
After a huge 2010 with cinephiles being treated to movies likeThe Social Network, Inception, and many others, 2011 didn’t slow things down. 2011 wasn’t especially known for any specific kind of trend in movies, as we wouldn’t see the huge surge in superhero movies until the following y...
Bob Uecker, who parlayed six laughable seasons as a light-hitting catcher into a second career in comedy highlighted by hilarious turns in the Major League movies, on The Tonight Show and in beer commercials, died Thursday. He was 90. ...
The villain, of course, was the Beast, for everyone was corrupted by his contagion. His disease, which was purely physical at first, soon spread to the mental plane, driving him nearly insane, and this only encouraged Belle's natural maternal instincts in the wrong direction. Worse, she ...
My stepfather, who never minced words, thereafter referred to “the type of movies we would let our kids watch” and “our household as one where these words were common” for several years thereafter. *** The gate attendant said a few more things that only increased my anger (e.g....
(4) I would also emphasize comfort—make the kids’ favorite foods, allow more t.v. and movies (and make popcorn!) (5) Finally, I suggest that parents come up with some ideas about what the family can do together that is more than entertainment, something that is constructive, something...
I’ve also been hanging with my cat Lilly, catching up on old movies every night with my husband, and I just had a Zoom meeting with the cast of “Girl From The North Country.” Wow…that warmed my heart! The cast becomes your family and when y...
As offices and schools shut, most began working from home with no loss of income and more time for movies; their kids switched to online classes. In a caste society that has long internalized a sense of physical and spiritual contagion from certain humans it deemed “untouchable,” ...