At this point, I won’t even pretend I have any longtime readers, but about four years ago I would post occasionally about my love of the piano as used on pop music. There’s just something about that sound that really grabs my ear. The instrument has an incredible range of harmonics. It has strings, but [...]
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
For some time, I’ve been meaning to write a piece on “problem” movies, films that deal with social ills, such as racism or poverty. I was inspired to do so by much of the discussion this past summer of the movie The Help. Some of the criticism I read of the movie seemed less reflective [...]