was the big earner with over $394 million on a medium-sized budget. Another big impact, big earner in the comedy area wasCrazy Rich Asians, starring Constance Wu and Michelle Yeoh with a full Asian cast. The movie took in over $238 million on a very modest budget. Other woman-led and...
1925 was a busy year of ups and downs. The Crillon closed, as did his newly opened cafeteria called Dreamland, not even open for a full year. It was the only cafeteria I’ve ever come across that had dancing! He also began a catering company that furnished food to movie casts and cre...
Starting in the mid 1960s but gaining in the 1970s Googie style was rejected, and what has been dubbed the “browning of America” by Philip Langdon had begun. Now chain restaurants of the coffee shop type began featuring earth tones, mansard roofs, exposed wooden beams, hanging plants, an...
he roared. “They are sheep grazing on my land… and I have a good mind to flog them all!” Another noise, this one much closer, swiftly derailed his train of thought; Nathan’s whole body began to tremble. He turned toward the window, at which point his eyes flared wide at seeing...
“I understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family,” theCommandoactor said in a statement at the time. “There are no excuses and I take full responsibility for the hurt I have caused. I have apologized to Maria, my children and my family. I...
Welcome to my Book Review Blog. My goal is to connect readers with the wonderful and amazing books I am blessed to reveiw. And to introduce you to the talented and wonderful authors responsible for writing these books. May my love for books show through
My happy moments are spent wandering and wondering in the woods of western Maine. And photographing and sketching what I see. And writing about the experience.
In 1942, one of the strangest unsolved crime sprees understandably terrified the town of Pascagoula, Mississippi, when a man dubbed“The Phantom Barberâ€broke into homes, cut locks of hair off women and children, and left without stealing anything or otherwise harming anyone. Fifty...
As I left the house very early my last words to her were, “Why don’t you open our bedroom window and air out the room for a couple of hours.” My attitude that particular morning was not the best, and my statement was more on the order of a command rather than a suggestion. I...
I've changed my style for Oral English classes this term. I decided it's time to challenge the students, and stop talking so much myself. So each class we've had a group of four students use the first period to make a presentation. Some of these have been, frankly, uninspired. But...