Tuesday, September 12, 2017 I don’t know why I chose the documentary Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond – With a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton. I have seen the Andy Kaufman bio pic “Man on the Moon,” thought it was OK, but while I thought Kaufman funny at first, he lost […]

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I meant to comment on the Toronto International Film Festival when I was making my picks, before I left, but I ran out of time. In retrospect, it is better that I have done this now, after the fact. Before I dissect the films that I saw, there were a lot of factors, business and […]

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I saw 14 films in five days during the first weekend of the Festival, and as always, I will break them down by days: Friday, September 8, 2017 Usually I don’t watch a film on my first day there, but there was a film that I wanted to see that only showed Thursday, the 7th […]

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Sunday, September 10, 2017 I thought that the best chance to see a star would be for The Current War, the latest film starring international superstar Benedict Cumberbatch. When you see the word “War” in the title, one might expect some military movie, but in this case, this is the story over the difference between […]

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I very rarely am on the side of sports owners. They are very rich; they are or are wannabe oligarchs; they often distance themselves from the common people, looking down at us, or just as money to be taken. Often, they treat their players like pawns. Not people easy to root for, or even congratulate. […]

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Yesterday, ESPN broadcast the final installment of its talk program “The Sports Reporters.” Today, there were numerous articles written about the show’s end. One of them came from Mitch Albom, who used the publicity to help him become a bestselling author of “Tuesdays with Morrie” and other sentimental books. I used to watch the show […]

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Anniversaries are opportunities to look backward and, if important, revel in self-congratulations. If it’s a media company: television, newspaper, Internet, magazines, even social media, this is an opportunity to publicize it. People like round numbers, so any “big” anniversary provides the opportunity to give even more hype. This is the 50th anniversary of Rolling Stone […]

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