The fearless yearning of the human soul!

That is what I’d like to talk about in this editorial.

Amidst the urgency of combating the Obama Nation’s disgusting ambitions for shrinking the United States of America into a docile and obedient fixture in the profoundly Marxist vision of a New World Order, I have recently rediscovered a veritably cinematic hymn to what drives the human soul.

Julie Harris “Member of the Wedding”

We humans harbor an insatiable desire to know the entire universe. That, at least, is what I’ve concluded while watching the incredibly powerful performances of Julie Harris in Member of the Wedding and Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker.

This experience, as an audience member, of Helen Keller’s ferocious journey from an animal ignorance to human enlightenment captures with blissfully overwhelming density the same feeling I had experienced with my first and now repeated viewings of the film, Member of the Wedding. (more…)

This week’s Sunday Matinee is dedicated to Hollywood.

Because it’s Oscar Sunday and the whole world is focused on the Kodak Theatre and the red carpet parade about to happen, it seems fitting that Broadway throws Hollywood a bone today.  Also, considering every other Broadway show these days seems to be a staged version of a popular movie, (“Shrek”, “Wedding Singer”… Really?) it seems appropriate to shine a little light on a Broadway Musical that has been adapted to film.  (more…)

7pm PST - Prisoner of Second Avenue, The (1975) – A suddenly unemployed executive and his understanding wife must adapt to their new life. Cast: Jack Lemmon, Elizabeth Wilson, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks Dir: Melvin Frank BW-98 mins, TV-PG

TCM’s Star of the Month is the irreplaceable Jack Lemmon, who died in 2001, and I’m still not over it.

“The Prisoner of Second Avenue” ranks among Neil Simon’s finest works thanks to his dynamite script, Lemmon’s central performance played perfectly on a knife edge of comedy and tragedy, the marvelous Anne Bancroft as his understanding wife, and Manhattan in the mid 70s, when the city was a vibrant character all on its own. (more…)