Thanksgiving is much more than a big meal with family and friends. It’s a time to reflect on, and be thankful for, all of the good things you have. It’s important to be grateful, not just on Thanksgiving, but each and every day.
Documentarian Rachel Boynton has crafted an informational film titled “Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are).” A starting point for this probing documentary (now airing on cable television’s MSNBC) is that the American Civil War still lingers and haunts our country.
For the United States the year 2021 is proving to be economically unsettling. Never before did this nation’s hierarchy ever manage to spend money at the rate it is now doing, nor succeed in generating the sort of federal budget deficit we are experiencing.
Dave Chappelle is a cerebral comic. His act is as bold and at times as profane as anything Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy have ever presented. Nevertheless, Chappelle offers profundity in a manner that few other stand-up acts have.
They first met in Moscow at a screening of a Fellini film. They fell in love at the screening of another Fellini film. Victor (Vladimir Friedman) and Raya (Mariya Belgian) weren’t there only to enjoy the films but to work on them.
About a week ago I received a somewhat unsettling email. A man, who identified himself as Carl, informed me he reads my articles in the newspaper in which my columns regularly appear, and expressed what I can only describe as displeasure.
