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Movie Blog Post: REBEL IN THE RYE | GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor A biopic about the celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, famous for his novel, “The Catcher in the Rye”. (died 2010 age 91) the movie is written and directed by Danny Strong who is the co-creator of the TV Show Empire (w/ Lee Daniels) and for other Gilmore Girl fans like myself, he plays Paris’s boyfriend Doyle. Rebel in the Rye stars Nicholas Hoult, who was a child actor in one of my all time favorite movies About a Boy with Hugh Grant. He’s also Beast in a number of the X-men movies, a cute zombie in Warm Bodies (see below) and I’m really looking…
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Movie Blog Post: THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE
Every time a movie like this comes out, I think Oh boy, another Holocaust movie. I feel the same way about a Slave Narratives. But then, inevitably the filmmaker finds a way to once again awaken you to the horrors of these inhumane atrocities in a new way...
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Much todo about hot dogs: Hyde Park on Hudson
How could anyone seduce the President of the United States wearing oxfords, long printed frocks and spinster cardigan sweaters? Even if said President was crippled by polio and the year is 1939. Yet Margaret “Daisy” Suckley (Laura Linney) dressed thusly, and became Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (Bill Murray) intimate confident and companion during a major portion of his life. Daisy being 5th cousin to the Roosevelt family and the only relative available one summer afternoon; was called on by FDR’s mother to come make a visit to Hyde Park, her home in Upper State New York, to which her son, The President, often used as an extension to The White House.…
