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Shawn Levy, my old friend from graduate school at the University of California, Irvine, is a film critic for The Oregonian newspaper in Portland. Here’s Shawn’s take on “The Fighter,” which he calls “terrific.”
Read More »My “celebrations” of New Year’s Eve have evolved through the years. Growing up, I always enjoyed watching the big college football bowl game that was on that night – I think it was the Orange Bowl from Miami – but that was back in the day when there were only…
Read More »Christian Bale as Dickie Eckland in “The Fighterr” In today’s New York Times A&E writer Manolha Dargis writes in the “”Awards” section about Christian Bale’s performance as Dickie Eckland in “The Fighter.” Dargis analyzes the portrayal and the character portrayed. Is an Oscar in the wings for Christian Bale? Read…
Read More »Today’s Globe identifies they young actor who played Dick Ecklund Jr in “The Fighter” as Jackson Nicholl of nearby Seabrook, New Hampshire.
Read More »Dick mentioned CNN in a comment tonight. I went to the CNN site and found the network’s review of “The Fighter.” The reviewer gave the film an A- rating. Read it here.
Read More »Speaking of the power of cities, after two highly successful productions in Lowell (2008-09), the Massachusetts Poetry Festival will move its tents, workshops, coffeehouse readings, and auditorium events to downtown Salem in 2011, with a packed schedule of activities set for May 13 and 14. Keep checking www.masspoetry.org for updates as the…
Read More »In today’s Boston Globe Edward L. Glaeser – a professor of economics at Harvard and author of a soon to be published book “The Triumph of the City” – penned an op-ed piece well worth reading. DURING ECONOMIC downturns, we begin to fear that we are entering a permanent period…
Read More »Tonight, with my wife and two friends I saw “the movie” at the Showcase Cinemas, just a slapshot away from Micky Ward Circle. The film ended two hours ago and I’m still in a kind of shock from the hyper-realism on screen. Lowell appeared to be under a colossal magnifying glass.…
Read More »Here’s the link to the Facebook Page for the Beat Museum in San Francisco.
Read More »I picked up this item from the latest newsletter from the Beat Museum in San Francisco (www.kerouac.com). There’s a link to the Christie’s auction house site where you can see the letter from Jack Kerouac to Marlon Brando, urging the actor to acquire the film rights to Kerouac’s then-redhot novel…
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