https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd4EG6BeDV0 My apologies to all who thought—as I did—that Weekly in the title Weekly Wilson meant that I would not go more than a week without posting. I have excuses. Mostly, the excuses involve my always-rocky relationship with computers. The hinge on my laptop somehow came undone. So, no laptop to write my post on […]
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With Oscar Isaac at the premiere of “Inside Llewyn Davis” at the Chicago International Film Festival in 2013. Two writers (Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr) from the Associated Press recently penned an article entitled “A Look at the Decade’s Best Big-Screen Releases.” The list, according to these two, was as follows: “Tree of Life” “Phantom […]
The morning after the Academy Awards. I’ve not done as much due diligence about other people’s opinions of the Oscars this year as I will in the hours that loom sitting in airports between here (Des Moines, Iowa), where the temperature feels like zero, or 43 minutes away (by air) in St. Louis, Missouri, (or […]
Nominations for the 2018 Academy Awards on March 4th were just announced and, to no one’s surprise, the Best Picture nominees are: “Call Me By Your Name” “Darkest Hour” “Dunkirk” “Get Out” “Lady Bird” “Phantom Thread” “The Post” “The Shape of Water” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” I confess to having missed one out of […]
Independence, Iowa, was named as the seat of Buchanan County in June of 1847. A second town, New Haven, and its mill, were located on the west bank of the river. In 1854, the State Legislature merged the two towns. Ten years later, in 1864, Independence was incorporated. Quasqueton, then called Quasquetuk, which I wrote […]
The budget for Hugh Jackman’s new film “Reminiscence” was $68 million. For this, you get a peek at Miami “after the flood” caused by global warming. This is a futuristic world in which a machine designed, originally, to interrogate prisoners via their dreams, is now used in the post-war society as a way to […]
Oprah at the Sunday, January 7th, Golden Globe Awards During the Golden Globes, the big moments are not about the ceremony and awards themselves,. It’s more about what the nominees and winners have to say. especially with everything happening leading into the new year with the “Me, Too!” movement.. Natalie Portman was strong to subtly […]
Over 10 years ago, famed record producer George Martin, who is often referred to as “the 5th Beatle,” used his considerable influence to start the ball rolling on a series of interviews with famous record producers and musicians. Martin’s influence led to an 8-series PBS piece that will air in mid-November, entitled: “Soundbreaking: Stories […]
http://youtu.be/-j2CCYf3eaI British visual artist Bruce Munro, best-known for using light as an artistic medium, has produced the second-ever North American exhibition of Light on the 55-acre grounds of Cheekwood Estate in Nashville, Tennessee. The U.S. debut at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, featured an enchanting, dream-like effect, composed of 20,000 lighted glass spheres, each […]
Zack Snyder, the director of the new “Superman,”(2007’s “300”) teamed up with Christopher Nolan (“Memento,” “The Dark Knight Rises”) and screenwriter David S. Goyer to film (yet another—the 9th ) version of the Man of Steel, ‘Superman” with British actor Henry Cavell (“The Tudors,” “The Immortal”) in the title role. Jon Peters—(long-ago love of Barbra […]