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Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov

Former Poet Laureate of the United States.  One of America’s finest.  Subtle, smooth, almost  hypnotic.  He sneaks up over your shoulder, past intellectual barriers and feeds the world some “Biggie-size” imagery and meaning.  He received the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov. He was [...]

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Away From Her

Away From Her

I admit it was a long time after the release of “Away From Her” that I watched it.  I finished a particularly tricky project so feeling very accomplished and brave one July afternoon I took advantage of the moment and put in a screener I had laying around. “Hey, why did you wait to see [...]

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MVP:  Werner Herzog

MVP: Werner Herzog

WERNER HERZOG REQUIEM FOR A DYING PLANET “Mr. Herzog has become one of the greatest and most original of documentary filmmakers.” — The New York Times While music has always played a significant role In the films of visionary director Werner Herzog, it is the extreme larger-than-life narratives of his movies, often blurring the boundaries [...]

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Hot shot:  Edward Albee

Hot shot: Edward Albee

Edward Albee has defined modern American theater for nearly five decades with his provocative, controversial and groundbreaking plays. Lauded as one of the eternal innovators in American drama, this three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner challenges his audiences with stories that express the bone-simple, shattering truth of the human experience, perhaps best exemplified by his 1962 masterpiece Who’s Afraid [...]

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