From a story by Stephen King, Big Driver is the story of a novelist bent on revenge after falling victim to a brutal crime. It is a made for Lifetime TV film. It stars Maria Bello, Olympia Dukakis, Joan Jett, […]
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I spent last week at a conference in Ghost Ranch, NM. The conference, called Wisdom Sharing, featured Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem and Dr. Chung Hyun Kyung. The marvelous moderator, shown on the left above, was Dr. Melanie Harris. The location
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There are many more videos on YouTube featuring Sarah Lancashire than there were only a few months ago. I enjoyed watching a bunch of them, but found these three to be the most interesting. The first one is scenes from
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Anita Sarkeesian from Feminist Frequency spoke at the XOXO Festival recently. This is her entire speech. It’s a bit over 15 minutes long, but worth listening to until the end for the simple conclusion that could change the culture very
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Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, is a wonderful book – it won the Pulitzer. Olive is a stern New Englander, an aging former school teacher, and one of the best characters to ever inhabit the pages of a book. I
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Raven Symone made news on OWN when she told Oprah that she didn’t like being labeled. The labels she talked about were “gay” and “African American,” but she might have been talking about any label applied to any person. She
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We’ve seen 2 episodes of How to Get Away with Murder now. How are we feeling about it? I’ll share my reactions and I hope you’ll leave a comment to share what you think. First, I want Viola Davis as
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Watch a few seconds of trailer for Inside Out coming from Pixar next year. You have to wade past some bragging first. Inside Out is Pixar’s second film with a female protagonist. Maybe they learned something from Brave after all.
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TV Land announced some new original half-hour comedies. I’m not a big fan of half-hour comedies, although I do love to watch TV Land’s Hot in Cleveland.
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Still Alice stars Julianne Moore as Dr. Alice Howland, a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words because of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. The film is based on Lisa Genova’s 2007 bestselling novel of the same name. Still Alice will
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