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2015 AFI DOCS FESTIVAL: Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
THE BLACK PANTHERS: Vanguard of the Revolution I don’t know about you, but I wholeheartedly associated the The Black Panther Party with varying images of Huey P. Newton from eh…
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Tyke: Elephant Outlaw
As a cast member of THE LION KING, I was one of four people who carried a puppeted elephant for the opening number “The Circle of Life”. To the audience,…
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What Hits Below the Belt? Review: N.E.D (No Evidence of Disease) Documentary
Cancer runs rampant in my family gene pool and ovarian cancer is what ultimately claimed the life of my grandmother in the early70’s, shortly after her 50th birthday.…
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Sundance Docs: From Nina Simone to Scientology
Sundance 2015 was full of worthy documentaries to screen. I caught three of them, Listen to Me Marlon, The Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution and Larry Kramer: In Anger…
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Review: Life Itself
Growing up in St. Louis, my Mother, brother and I would watch Siskel and Ebert eagerly awaiting to see which films would get the “thumbs up” or “thumbs down”. What…
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Review and Interview: I’ll Be Me: Glen Campbell Documentary
2014 has featured an impressive number of documentaries. Life Itself, about dearly departed film critic Roger Ebert; Keep on Keepin’ On, a chronicle of an old man and a young man helping one another; Documented,a portrait…
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Review: Waiting For August
Growing up in St. Louis holds very fond childhood memories for me. One of the things that was soooo much fun was when my parents and their friends would have…
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Tribute: Elaine Stritch and James Garner
After a matinee of “How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”, I asked one of my castmates to go out for lunch when he told me that he had…
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Review: The Battered Bastards of Baseball
As I have mentioned several times during the blog, I am a HUGE fan of baseball, being from St. Louis and rooting my whole life for the St. Louis Cardinals.…
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Stories We Tell Is Perfect Love Letter to Loved One
"Stories We Tell" teaches us that when a beloved person leaves this realm many things are left behind. Beloved memories, secrets and the ability to still affect those left behind…
