Showing posts with label William Finnegan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Finnegan. Show all posts

Friday, May 13, 2016

May 13, 2016



Playing Doc's Game from The New Yorker, 1992, will be my plane reading.



Shakespeare in the Park just announced the borough distribution list. An all-female The Taming of the Shrew looks like a must-see with Cush Jumbo (Katherina) and Janet McTeer(Petruchio.)

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

May 4, 2016



Perfect score !



Books to take to Hawaii. 1. The White Album by Joan Didion:

"I could indulge here in a little idle generalization, could lay off my own state of profound emotional shock on the larger cultural breakdown, could talk fast about convulsions in the society, and alienation and anomie and maybe even assassination, but that would be just one more stylish shell game. I am not the society in microcosm. I am a thirty-four-year-old woman with long straight hair and an old bikini bathing suit and bad nerves sitting on an island in the middle of the Pacific waiting for a tidal wave that will not come."



2. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, recent winner of the Pulitzer prize.




3. From Here to Eternity.



4. Ulysses.

Sunday, July 19, 2015

July 19, 2015



Jersey Boys was a lot of fun, Tkts with 1/2 price tickets had great seats.



Sunday Morning did a piece on J.M.W. Turner and included scenes from Mr. Turner. is always interesting. I downloaded the movie and will watch it later.



Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan. What I will read after Ulysses.

Friday, May 29, 2015

May 29, 2015



10 screenwriting tips. Also, The Art of Screenwriting.



William Finnegan's Off Diamond Head in the latest New Yorker was a great read. Now I am reading his 1992 piece Playing Doc’s Games.