Category: Films by Steven Spielberg
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More of My Top Fives: A (Hopefully) Self-Explanatory Set of Five ‘Favorites’ Lists
More of My Top Fives: A (Hopefully) Self-Explanatory Set of Five ‘Favorites’ Lists For my friend Patti Aliventi. Music Albums – Movie Soundtracks Music Albums – Classical Music Albums – Pop/Rock Music Albums – Jazz/Standards Music Albums – Miscellaneous
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Tempus Fugit: Yesterday Was My Mom’s 95th Birthday….
Yesterday was my mother’s 95th birthday. She, of course, is no longer here. She died in the early morning of Sunday, July 19, 2015, after a five-year struggle with dementia and the effects of a long and eventually failed recovery from an operation to repair her spine. I do my best not to dwell on…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Music that Inspires Me While I’m Working on ‘Reunion: Coda’
Late Morning, Wednesday, September 20, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi all. As you know, I love listening to music when I write. It doesn’t matter what I’m writing; it could be a blog post such as the one you’re reading now, or a first draft of a screenplay, or a prose story, but unless I have…
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A Duet
A poem inspired by today’s output for The New Story A duet is what I want to sing with you A song of love and longing, sweet and true I’ve been dreaming of this moment for so long But I was afraid to tell you how I feel You’re the girl I’ve had a crush…
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On Movies & Movie Watching: Making Progress with My TBW List for March
This afternoon I decided to shake things up a bit, so instead of cloistering myself in my bedroom all day, I did something I rarely do: I turned off my desktop PC, grabbed a Blu-ray of a movie that was, incidentally, one of the titles on my most recent To Be Watched (TBW) list. That…
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On Movies & Movie Watching: My Sunday Afternoon Movie Selection – ‘Romeo and Juliet’
It’s late afternoon here in Lithia, Florida, on Sunday, March 12, 2023. I’m off to a late start with this post because I decided to change things up and watch a movie in the early afternoon rather than wait till nighttime. A few days ago – before I went down the rabbit hole of revising…
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On Movies & Movie Watching: My (Aspirational) To Be Watched List for the Weekend
So, it’s already Thursday, March 9, 2023? Wow. Tempus fugit indeed. Well, with the weekend looming on the horizon, it’s probably time to revisit the To Be Watched (TBW) list, since weekends are supposed to be the “prime time” for movie watching – even though I often don’t watch anything because I am too distracted…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, March 2, 2023, or: Countdown to the Big Six-Oh: ‘And the Clock is Running….’
With slightly less than three days before I leave my 50s behind and enter the twilight zone of my 60s, I received my first birthday present this afternoon. No, it was not a “birthday present from me to me.” If you wish to label any of my nonessential purchases at Amazon in March as such,…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, February 27, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part III – Sunday Night Viewing
In case you’re wondering, I did not watch The Fabelmans or any movies that I own on Blu-ray, DVD, or digital copy. Instead, I read for a while from my copy of Paul Duncan’s The Star Wars Archives: Episodes I-III, 1999-2005, which is the second volume in Duncan’s behind-the-scenes history of how George Lucas created…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, February 26, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part II – Plans vs. Reality
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.” ― Robert Burns, Collected Poems of Robert Burns It’s early afternoon here in Lithia, Florida, on Sunday, February 26, 2023. I went to bed sometime after 3 AM and I slept till just past 8 AM, so I am (a) still a bit tired,…
A Certain Point of View, Too 