Update on me… and more

Hey readers!
The weather is going up and down last few days; it’s pretty windy, and going to rain later today in NoVA.  I heard there were some several tornadoes touching down in NJ & NY this past week!  Dad is in Bowie, MD looking at houses w/ his realtor today (FRI).  He likes the area [...]

“Jungle Fever” (1991)

 
This is my favorite Spike Lee film (aside from Malcolm X); I’ve seen it several times.  Lee’s premise for making this film: romantic relationships between blacks and whites are (sometimes) based more on curiosity than love.   He didn’t make the central couple (black architect Flipper Purefoy and Italian American temp Angie Tucci) very interesting, Roger Ebert said in [...]

Entertainment Trivia

Gene Hackman rehearsed for The Graduate before best pal Dustin Hoffman.
Hackman paints on a regular basis.
Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman were the two actors considered “the least likely to succeed” at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Gene Hackman loved Montgomery Cliff’s work “because of his sensitivity.”

 
 

Both Marlon Brando and Paul Newman observed Rocky Marciano during the boxer’s practice [...]