Harold Lloyd, the Bespectacled Everyman by Vince Cornell
Harold Lloyd, the last member of the trio of early cinema’s silent clowns, is simultaneously highly recognized and completely forgotten.
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Buster Keaton, the Great Stone Face by Vince Cornell
A genius in constructing gags, a man well ahead of his time in understanding how to manipulate the technology of cinema to tell a joke, and almost the polar opposite of Charlie Chaplin in terms of sentimentality….
Chaplinesque by Vince Cornell
In this Christmas season, I submit for your consideration three men, perhaps not so wise, bearing gifts of wholesome entertainment. This first king of the early cinema is known by almost everyone, even if they’ve never seen a frame of his films: Charlie Chaplin
Videos Revisited: Dystopia Nowhere Now Here? by Vince Cornell
After thinking about Escape from New York and how our current times are worse than John Carpenter’s vision, I wondered how the rest of the Dystop-a-June list would stack up against the world of today.
Videos Revisited by Vince Cornell: Escape From New York
This is a John Carpenter movie, so there are no pretenses to being highbrow (there is an actual professional wrestling match with trash can lid shields and nail covered baseball bats!).
Michael Hill: Bluegrass: The Music of the Mountain South
My paternal grandfather and I would listen to the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights on WSM-AM radio out of Nashville in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. Besides standard country & western, we particularly liked Bluegrass.
Piers Paul Read: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and the Invasion of Ukraine
Will the Baltic states be next? Or was the invasion in his view a preemptive strike against an existential threat to the Russian nation? Is it possible that the present conflict in Ukraine might have been avoided if the chancelleries and intelligence services of the Western powers had made a more thorough study of their enemy
Who is Jerry Mandering!?
Gerrymandering is an essential part of the American constitutional process–like bribery, corruption, and contempt for the 1Oth Amerndment.
Mass Tourists, Mass Youth Groups, and Other Blights on Civilization
How mass tourism is destroying local communities….
