Uncategorized – Junkie 4 A Story

How would you improve your community? I would educate and dissuade young people away from social media. I remember life before social media; honestly, I think it maximizes the same issues that were always in our society. However, teenagers have no idea how sinister wealthy businesspeople think. They don’t know the things they are willingContinue reading

How America and China played Sea Saw with Chinese American Actress Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong was a Chinese American actress in the Silent era and talkies, during the first half of the 20th Century. Her successful years were between the 1920s and 1940s, in spite of the limited roles she could play–a result of prejudice in Hollywood and America. In those days, an interracial relationship was forbidden:Continue reading “How America and China played Sea Saw with Chinese American Actress Anna May Wong”

Joan Crawford Is A Natural As A Crazed Ax Mudering Woman In Straight-Jacket

Marcia Clark May Be On The Wrong Side of Justice When It Comes To Barbara Graham

Hollywood Yet Again, Attempts A Janis Joplin Biopic, This Time Starring Shailene Woodley

Lana Turner’s Movie Comeback After Her Affair With Mobster Ends In Murder

You Should Remember This Podcast Will Quench Your Thirst For Old Hollywood Filmmaking And Its Stars

I was introduced to Mrs. Longworth through one of my favorite podcasts, WTF with Marc Maron. She came on to talk about her podcast, You Should Remember This, which focuses primarily on the 19th century of Hollywood filmmaking. In their discussion, Marin was clearly fascinated with old Hollywood and that style of filmmaking, conversingContinue reading “You Should Remember This Podcast Will Quench Your Thirst For Old Hollywood Filmmaking And Its Stars”

Can The Dead Revive What Not Dead Yet Calls Comedy

Gina Rodriguez’s new TV series, Not Dead Yet has all the makings of TV gold: a bankable star, unique yet relatable premise, and great writing. However, it fails to give an auspicious delivery of sitcom mastery. Not Dead Yet is about a newly single woman who is returning to journalism, to pay the bills that she was accustomed toContinue reading “Can The Dead Revive What Not Dead Yet Calls Comedy”

Legal Thrillers By Black Authors

This is a solid debut in the thriller genre, which could use some new and cultured voices.We follow Ellice Littlejohn, who is a mature-aged, token, Black lawyer at her company: she was hired to combat racial discrimination and lawsuits. While she is managing her “little secrets” she discovers her boss lying dead in his officeContinue reading “Legal Thrillers By Black Authors”

Doubleday brings us Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

This bestseller, written by Patrick Radden Keefe, covers the Sackler family who is to blame for the opioid epidemic that swept America like an ominous force that we weren’t alerted the perils of. This is a long book that covers a span of twentieth and twenty-first century business practices that the Sackler family exploited–for generations–toContinue reading “Doubleday brings us Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe”