Rembrandt at the Met * 9/18/07 – 1/6/08

To be different, the Metropolitan Museum, in NYC, is celebrating Rembrandt’s 401st birthday this year, instead of his 400th last year, like other museums across the world. The Met will exhibit all of its 228 Dutch paintings, beginning in September, in an event called “The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch...

Deadlines

There is a saying that says Busy People get things Done. Well I’ve been busy and I am challenging that statement. I’ve not gotten much done lately and I have deadlines to meet.   A bright spot this past week (I should say a brighter spot) was that our daughter came to town unexpectedly to visit...

Hooray For Hollywood * AFI’s List of 100 “Best” Films

The usual suspects, not the film, but the movies you would expect, made the list of American Film Institute’s “100 films/100 years” – “All About Eve”, “Casablanca”, “Lawrence of Arabia” and the same #1 as 10 years ago when AFI published its 1st...

“Radio Golf” * Fun Play!

 I got a chance to see “Radio Golf” while visiting NYC a few days ago. This is the final play of August Wilson’s 10 play cycle – taking us from 1910 to the mid-1990′s. His plays address events and issues of different parts of Black life across America, particularly,...

Film in Africa – Ousman Sembene

African film makers highlighted in the July’07 “Africa issue” of Vanity Fair Magazine, pg 184, can be said to be the sons and daughters of  the “Father of African Cinema” Mr. Ousman Sembene. The 84 year old recently passed away in his native city, Dakar, Senegal. These artists – writers,...