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Continue reading →: Ten Iconic Hollywood Film Scenes (IV)
The fourth in a series of ten iconic Hollywood film scenes among my all-time favorites is another one from the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock: The Shower Scene from “Psycho” (1960), with Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh, with the proviso that if you haven’t seen the film, this is a…
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Continue reading →: Yay, Mayor Bill De Blasio!
Today, in trying to explain the new system of “Ranked Choice Voting” for the upcoming Democratic Party Primary, he used the example of ranking his favorite toppings on a NYC pizza. Personally, I’m a traditionalist with pizza: Mozzarella, a little grated cheese, and a delicious sauce, with the crust baked…
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Continue reading →: Ten Iconic Hollywood Film Scenes (III)
The third in a series of ten iconic Hollywood film scenes among my all-time favorites is this classic moment in Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” (1959): The Crop-Duster Scene! Check out this tense showdown between Cary Grant and a crop-duster on an empty cornfield:
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Continue reading →: Ten Iconic Hollywood Film Scenes (II)
Following up on yesterday’s “challenge”, today I post the second in a series of ten iconic Hollywood film scenes among my all-time favorites. Little surprise here … from my all-time favorite film, director William Wyler’s 1959 version of “Ben-Hur”: The Chariot Race (though this segment was actually directed by Andrew…
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Continue reading →: Ten Iconic Hollywood Film Scenes (I)
As part of a new “summer” challenge (even though the Solstice doesn’t arrive until June 20th), I will post one image and/or film sequence per day for the next ten days, of ten iconic Hollywood film scenes. There are plenty more than that, but these ten are among my all-time…
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Continue reading →: “The Mandalorian” Finally!
So, I’m coming late to “The Mandalorian“, and just finished the finale of Season 1. The final scenes of Chapter 8 gave me a chuckle though. The Armorer states that until that Baby Yoda-like foundling “is of age or reunited with its own kind”, the Mandalorian is “as its father.”…
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Continue reading →: JARS: The Third Decade Begins …
It is with deep appreciation to the readers and supporters of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies that I announce today the imminent e-publication on JSTOR and Project Muse and in print of our forty-first issue, the beginning of our third decade as the only double-blind peer-reviewed interdisciplinary, scholarly journal…
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Continue reading →: “The Greatest Enemies of Peace are Those who Extol War as Noble and Heroic …”
An earlier version of this revised essay first appeared on the Liberty and Power Group Blog (Memorial Day Weekend 2004). It also appears here. This 2021 Memorial Day Weekend mirrors that 2004 calendar. As people honor the memories of those who died in wars past and present on this Memorial…
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Continue reading →: Liberty Resources
My friend Daniel Blois (aka Daniel Bastiat) has begun a new project worthy of your attention (and not just because he cites some of my work under the topics of “Dialectics” and “LGBT”). It’s called “Liberty Resources” and Daniel tells us: I started a new project that I thought would…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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