THE IDES OF MARCH is one smart, streamlined, and brutally transparent political thriller that doesn't so much tell us what we didn't already know, but rather gobsmacks us again with one of the oldest stories in the world. As the unsuspecting Julius Caesar discovered in 44BC, there's a fine line between enemies and friends, ambition [...]
I get up everyday and I think I know what's going to happen-- and then it doesn't-- and something else does. Several days ago I wandered into an art gallery out in Lincoln which happened to be near my bank-- The CLARK Gallery! It's a fabulous venue recently named BEST OF BOSTON and I was [...]
My husband says I should never read the paper. It gets me all worked up. It's true; I am not a big reader of newspapers; I've always found more satisfaction in a novel than the newspaper. And if I read a paper first thing in the morning, it's almost more than I can bear. Is [...]
I just became a contributor to EXHALE magazine and here's my first article all about the Fall Movie Season beginning with 50/50! (Ironically I am also a 3X cancer survivor, and am the subject of a separate feature story in the same issue of EXHALE about that experience.) Now that the car crashes of summer [...]
THE INFERNAL COMEDY John Malkovich's two-day gig presented by ArtsEmerson at the Paramount was fraught with tension. He played a serial killer back from the dead hawking his memoirs (Just once I'd like to see him play the normal neighbor next door.) with an orchestra playing arias from Vivaldi to Weber. In the course of [...]
Perhaps the Red Sox should take a break, take a field trip, and see if the solution to their colossal and historic implosion can be found at the movies in the entertaining new film MONEYBALL. The movie champions those who challenge the conventional wisdom -- the ho-hummers who always say, "But that's how we've always done [...]
I woke up yesterday morning fighting off a detached retina. Of course, I didn't know it yet, but those flashing lights I noticed in my peripheral vision while I was sitting in the movie theater, wasn't the result of some idiot texting during the film (that's another blog). So I reported this phenomenon to my [...]
RUN RUN RUN to the Huntington's 30th Anniversary season opener-- a rollicking, moving, brilliantly staged, lit, costumed, and transcendently performed, just plain GLORIOUS production of CANDIDE! This was my first response, and upon further reflection-- I liked it even more!!! It's as if all of life were captured onstage in one bursting-at-the-seams bundle in Tony [...]
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I contributed the following article to THE DAILY MUSE-- a brand new website for smart professional young women! I have always been who I am. I recognize myself in the 4-year-old girl who loved, even then, wearing black pants and a white shirt. I recognize me in the17-year-old girl who couldn’t wait to leave home [...]
