San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre Presents Ibsen Classic
Henrik Ibsen, the great Norwegian playwright, is often referred to as “the father of realism” and one of the founders of modernism in the theatre. His plays were groundbreaking and controversial for his day. Europe and the Americas had prescribed societal rules that were not to be challenged. The arts, in general, very rarely [...]
Newspapers the old ‘Social-Network’
Newspapers have been the ‘social-networks’ for hundreds of years. Gutenberg’s inventions of the printed word changed the way the people got their information; information is power; power equals money. Nothing really has changed, money is still the game. It is just the way information is delivered. Newspaper use reporters, writers and confidential informers to investigate [...]
Shaw’s “Pygmalion” On Stage At San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre
It’s been fifty-six years since George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion”, the wonderfully witty and misogynistic stage play about English society and its language, became the basis for one of Broadway’s most endearing musicals… “My Fair Lady”. The “Pygmalion” story, sans the wonderful music of Frederick Loewe, and the brilliant lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner, still has [...]
Jane Wagner book signing: “The Search of Intelligent Life in the Universe”
Just Fabulous Book store in Palm Springs brought Comedienne Lili Tomlin and Jane Wagner in for a book signing on Jan.12th. The book was written by Jane Wagner and called. The Search of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Wagner was a little late so Lili Tomlin took over. She greeted fans that had lined up [...]
Diary updated: Anne Frank’s Holocaust story remade for big screen, new info added
The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl who died in a Nazi concentration camp after spending two years in hiding in the attic of her father’s office, Anne Frank, will be adapted for the silver screen, exposing new archive materials. The new film will be based not only on the girl’s famous diary, but will [...]
Spielberg Movie Shows Another Facet Of The Lincoln Legend
Academy Award winning director Stephen Spielberg, and Pulitzer Prize winning author/playwright Tony Kushner, along with Hollywood actor Daniel Day Lewis, have teamed up to bring the myth and legend of Abraham Lincoln, America’s sixteenth president into sharper and a much narrower focus than any movie has done before. It’s not easy rewriting “accepted historical facts” [...]
Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize Winning “Glengarry Glen Ross” On Stage At The La Jolla Playhouse
David Mamet is a brilliant and fearless playwright. He’s also a playwright who never met or wrote a four-letter word that he didn’t like. He has always been a playwright of, and for, the people and one who loves to zero in on subjects and situations that less daring and less confident playwrights feel no [...]
Pentagon threats won’t delay Bin Laden kill mission book’s release
The publisher of a book purporting to chronicle an insider account of the Navy SEAL operation to raid Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistan compound will begin sales on Tuesday, ignoring the Pentagon’s legal threats against the author. Despite a potential lawsuit against the author of “No Easy Day,” Penguin Books is not delaying or canceling its [...]
Dangerous Presence
Psychologist, Jacquelyn Kincaid, aka Doc, is a damn good sleuth when it comes to tracking evidence in the quest to prove her kid brother innocent of murder. It all starts when a certain nanny is found dead, floating face up in a fishpond on Jacquelyn’s five acre garden estate. No one living at Kincaid [...]
Dangerous Presence
Psychologist, Jacquelyn Kincaid’s five-acre garden estate becomes deadly ground when blatant sex acts in a hot tub fuel a serial killer’s lethal vendetta. In her quest to prove her kid brother innocent of the murders, Jacquelyn fights for his life and finds herself butting heads with the law, all the way up the bureaucratic ladder [...]