Wednesday, May 17, 2006AMERICAN MASTERSBeing a child of the '60's, an unabashed, unrelenting liberal from Cambridge Massachusetts (land of the free and home to the last bastions of intellectualism in this country outside of New York City) (this might be a slight overstatement)...in any case, I've gotten myself into such a funk over the... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 4:38 AM Comments (6) (link) Sunday, May 14, 2006MOTHER'S DAYStories across six generations of mothers and daughters in my family has been a staple of my writing for the past 3 or 4 years. I have more than enough material now for a memoir, actually for 2 or 3 books, unless I publish it as one volume which would make it about as long as Tolstoy's WAR AND... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 10:01 AM Comments (5) (link) Thursday, May 11, 2006A BOOK READING IN HARVARD SQUAREMy posting on Blogit has become erratic since I joined a new blogging site called gather.com. It's been more than 3 years now, since I discovered blogging (then this place was called The Blogging Network). I remember the euphoria of my first post, the ease and simplicity of the interface, and how... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 5:24 AM Comments (5) (link) Friday, May 5, 2006THE WAR TAPESWar has been a favorite subject of filmmakers since the discovery of film. It's been more than 50 years since the end of WWII and yet this war is still a staple of most of the programming on the History Channel. War has fueled stories in both narrative feature films and in documentary, more often... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 4:32 AM Comments (13) (link) Tuesday, May 2, 2006COMPLICATIONS IN PARISThe trip to Estonia, my reasons for being there, were pretty straight forward. I was presenting a retrospective film program of the work of the documentary filmmaker John Marshall who died a year ago, I hoped that people showed up to see the films, and that they were interested enough to ask me... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 5:25 AM Comments (4) (link) |
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