by Rosario Iaconis | Mar 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
What was Christopher Nolan thinking? In directing Oppenheimer, which has garnered 13 Academy Award nominations, Nolan relegates Enrico Fermi — the true architect of the nuclear age — to a bit part. J. Robert Oppenheimer served as the director of the Manhattan...
by John Mancini | Mar 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Connecting “the dots” is a saying from the Analog Age. Recall how those dot puzzles entertained us as kids as well as taught us that objects could be hidden in plain sight until you connected the dots? Today, I’m playing connect the dots with our March...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Mar 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
A few blogs ago, I wrote about the rise of Irish-born actors currently taking Hollywood by storm: Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Paul Mescal, et. al. Victor McLaglen in The Informer (1935) With St. Patrick’s Day coming up, I decided to rent the famous 1935...
by John Mancini | Mar 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
I read Newsday every day. It’s Long Island’s only regional newspaper, the 8th largest newspaper in the nation and the highest in suburban readership. It is an ultra-liberal newspaper with a keen eye for “mafia” news. When John Gotti died in 2002 the paper...
by John Mancini | Feb 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
A lesser known aspect of the Great Navigator Christopher Columbus was his superpower. Beyond his amazing nautical skills, the Admiral seemingly had the heavens on his side. On February 29th 1504, during his 4th voyage to the New World an eclipse of the moon...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Feb 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Old soldiers never die,” General MacArthur said, “they just fade away.” Old mob shows never die, either, nor do they just fade away. A book by Mark Kamine is out called, On Locations: Lessons Learned from My Life On Set with The Sopranos and...
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