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Separating Genius

December 8, 2012 by D. A. Wolf 12 Comments

I was intrigued watching the video interview on Huffington Post Live in which Tippi Hedren, star of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and “Marnie,” speaks of her complex relationship with the legendary director, which, when asked, she characterizes as “abusive.” She clarifies that it is sad the relationship went the way it did, as he was […]

Filed Under: Art Art Art, Entertainment Tagged With: art collecting, big questions, celebrities, classic films, creative genius, Entertainment, values, women's issues

Four Days and an Electric Train

December 27, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 6 Comments

Meal time and clean up had yielded to quiet time; company had headed home and my boys were off into the night to visit friends nearby. I settled in with 1949’s Holiday Affair, a simplistic romance between a war widow (Janet Leigh) and a sales clerk (Robert Mitchum). Sparks fly between these two over an […]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Love, Relationships Tagged With: classic films, Love, marital expectations, marriage, Relationships, romance, women's issues

Excess

December 6, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 14 Comments

What we value… in abundance.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Lifestyle, Morning Musing Tagged With: Bravo TV, chick flicks, classic films, cultural values, friendship, Real Housewives, values, what's on your bookshelves

The Plague

October 25, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 9 Comments

From The Plague, by Albert Camus: I see no need to dwell on the manner of loving in our town. The men and women consume each other rapidly in what is called ‘the act of love’, or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality… for lack of time and thinking, people have to […]

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment, Love, Morning Musing, Other Stuff, Politics, Relationships Tagged With: big questions, classic films, Culture, daily plate of crazy, literature, responsibility, social change one person at a time, society

Killer Sheep, Dead Parrots, Crunchy Frogs

July 2, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 13 Comments

May I interest you in some Crunchy Frog? A cheeky delicacy, covered in chocolate of course, compliments of Monty Python. No? Perhaps you’d rather check your wainscotting for the presence of killer sheep? Might you seek to replace your dead parrot? You know the one – blue – returned to Bolton, and originally nailed down […]

Filed Under: Culture, Entertainment Tagged With: classic films, classic tv, Entertainment, humor

Stella Dallas

March 27, 2011 by D. A. Wolf 13 Comments

It stopped me cold, and I couldn’t change the channel. It was Barbara Stanwyck, in 1937’s Stella Dallas, a film I hadn’t seen in years. It’s the story of a working class mother who manages to marry into money, leaves her husband, then raises her daughter under difficult (and questionable) circumstances. Years later, when the […]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Lifestyle, Other Stuff Tagged With: classic films, cultural values, Entertainment, films, honor, movies, value of an honorable man

Twinning (What Does it Take to Succeed?)

March 28, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 5 Comments

A Stolen Life In 1946, Bette Davis played a dual role in A Stolen Life, the story of identical twins with very different personalities. It’s a melodramatic film, predictable yet thoroughly enjoyable, and it’s one that has always stuck with me. I imagine it is a desire to call upon my own evil twin, to […]

Filed Under: Entertainment, Lifestyle, Movies Tagged With: Bette Davis, big questions, classic films, cultural values, daily plate of crazy, emotions, painter sharon shapiro, Relationships, values, whatever life dishes out, women's issues, women's roles

Frankenstein, or Bride of Frankenstein?

March 23, 2010 by D. A. Wolf 26 Comments

Reinvention may be fine, for yourself. What about playing Pygmalion?

Filed Under: Fashion & Style, Lifestyle Tagged With: Audrey Hepburn, change, classic films, clothes make the man, dress your age, Fashion & Style, French men, makeovers, narcissism, personal style, psychology, reinvention

White Palace. Twisted Pleasure. Empties.

August 21, 2009 by D. A. Wolf 6 Comments

“Shall I get condoms?” Silence. “It’s like having band-aids in the house,” I say. “Good to have around. Just in case.” I turn to my son, see the grin, and make one of those critical parental decisions. The kind you feel in your gut. I’m long past embarrassment when I purchase anything. Well, almost. It […]

Filed Under: Parenting, Sex, Tweens and Teens Tagged With: classic films, condoms, cougars, Parenting, parenting teens, Sex, teenage sex

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