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Down with the Sickness (To Thine Own Shelf Be True)
A short tour of my book collection
Mar 283 min read
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Shakespeare & the Cinema
A sense of Shakespeare on Film
Mar 2118 min read
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Poetry Month 4: A Recitation of "She Walks in Beauty"
A recitation of Lord Byron's poem "She Walks in Beauty."
Feb 281 min read
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Poetry Month 3: A Monologue from LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST
An audio recording of a monologue from William Shakespeare's LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST.
Feb 211 min read
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Poetry Month 2: A Recitation of "My Last Duchess"
Another vlog- a Youtube recitation of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess"
Feb 142 min read
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Poetry Month 1: A Recitation of "Porphyria's Lover"
An audio recitation of Robert Browning's "Porphyria's Lover."
Feb 71 min read
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David Lynch. Artist. 1946-2025.
David Lynch. Artist. David Lynch was an artist from Missoula, Montana. He wrote and directed the films Inland Empire , Mulholland Drive...
Jan 2414 min read
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2024 in Perspective
Greetings, readers! I hope you all had a nice holiday season and are as ready for the New Year as I am. 2024 was both challenging and...
Dec 27, 20249 min read
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The 100 Best Films of 2010-2019
I am significantly less proud of this list —not because it's not a good list or basically a reflection of my opinion, but just because...
Dec 20, 20243 min read
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The 100 Best Films of 2000-2009
I had already planned for this year's penultimate blog piece to cover the best 100 films of 2010-2019, so I thought I would offer my list...
Dec 13, 20243 min read
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To My Teachers, with Love
Growing up as an actor, I always believed actors were born, not made. Certainly, one can learn techniques of speaking and movement,...
Oct 18, 20248 min read
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Columbus Day and the Offended Generation
Not all holidays are created equally, but there is a ubiquity about them. It is necessary, for example, to have a bright spot in the...
Oct 11, 20244 min read
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On Learning and Teaching
Early on, I was a poor learner. I really was. The sort who liked to have books around me but couldn’t get through them. It wasn’t the...
Sep 20, 20246 min read
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Two is the Loneliest Number
Harry Nilsson’s song “One,” most famously covered in two distinct but perfect recordings by Three Dog Night and Aimee Mann (the latter...
Jul 12, 20246 min read
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EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH: 20th Century Masterpiece
In the mid-1970s, when the country was in a deep malaise over Watergate, Vietnam, the failure of most of the late-60s protests, artists...
May 3, 20245 min read
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Oscars pt. 2: Who Will Win? (Updated)
This list includes my Oscar predictions for the upcoming ceremony. The choices are not necessarily who/what I think should win, but...
Mar 8, 20243 min read
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Poetry Month 4: Your Spirit Eternal
It's been nice sharing some poetry with you this month. If it's not been your thing, I'm sorry. I'll be back in March with more new...
Feb 23, 20242 min read
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The Greatest Youtube Video Ever (No, Really)
I recently completed watching two of what have been called the greatest television series of all time, The Sopranos and The Wire. The...
Jan 26, 20247 min read
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Lost Classics: Norman Mailer's MAIDSTONE
While during his lifetime, his work became more and more critically derided, there has been a resurgence of interest in American...
Jan 12, 20246 min read
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Native Children
In the early 2000s, I inherited a book collection from my former theatre teacher. It was a virtual treasure trove of hardcover and...
Nov 24, 20236 min read
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