Once known as Decoration Day, Memorial Day is an American
holiday celebrated on the last Monday in May and honors those who have died
serving their country. Historians agree that it originated during the American
Civil War, honoring the many who died during those bloody conflicts.Many states claim to have been the first but it
was not until a congressional proclamation in 1966 that an 1866 Waterloo, New
York observance was cited as the birthplace.
Decoration Day changed to Memorial Day, honoring all who’ve
died in U.S. wars, after World War I and has been celebrated on the last Monday
in May since 1971.
Traditional customs and
symbols include:
- the laying of the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in
Arlington National Cemetery (VA)
- nationwide religious services, parades, and speeches
- graves of veterans decorated with flags, insignia, and
flowers
Interested in learning more about Arlington National Cemetery?
“Most Hallowed Ground” part of the series Ken Burns: The Civil War (available on Kanopy)
Due to COVID-19, this year observations differ in many ways. For
instance:
On Memorial Day weekend in 1988, 2500
motorcyclists rode into Washington, D.C. for the first Rolling Thunder rally in
order to draw attention to Vietnam War soldiers still missing in action and
prisoners of war. By 2002, the ride had swelled to 300,000 bikers, many of them
veterans, and in 2018, the numbers were likely closer to half a million.
Though it was reported that 2019 would be the group’s last Memorial Day ride, the organization American Veterans
(AMVETS) is continuing the
tradition in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to WUSA9. Now known as Rolling to Remember,
2020’s ride will be a bit different—instead of hundreds of thousands of riders
going through Washington, D.C., organizers are asking participants to ride 22
miles through their own community for a virtual Memorial Day demonstration on Sunday, May 24.
Riders will then be able to track and share their progress using the REVER app.
Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice
from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima by Martha MacCallum (available
on Libby/Overdrive)
Alone at Dawn: Medal of Honor Recipient John Chapman and the
Untold Story of the World’s Deadliest Special Operations Force by Dan Schilling
& Lori Chapman Longfritz (available
on Libby/Overdrive)
- The American Veterans Center is also hosting a television broadcast. Though this year's event is canceled, a pre-recorded
television special titled, The National Memorial Day Parade: America Stands
Tall, that will broadcast on Memorial Day to more than 100 million households
on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox stations nationwide. Visit their website for a full list of broadcast times and channels.
As a reminder, Emmet O’Neal Library is closed to the public until further notice but will be resuming
curbside pickup for library materials on Monday, June 1, 2020. Details on how the service works will be available Tuesday, May 26. Follow our social media accounts on Facebook and Instagram and our
website at www.eolib.org for the latest news
on library programs and services.
Welcome to the recap for our very first Genre Reading
Group meeting held online! The evening’s topic was famous women and I am delighted with the
variety brought to the table.
If you like
to color/need more diversion and have access to a printer (and want to keep the
momentum going!), here are 21 coloring sheets featuring famous women: https://bit.ly/3dGqcLf
(amazon) Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and
her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi
River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital
one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force.
Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home
Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be
returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth. At the mercy
of the facility’s cruel director, Rill fights to keep her sisters and brother
together in a world of danger and uncertainty.
Based on one of America’s most notorious real-life scandals—in which Georgia
Tann, director of a Memphis-based adoption organization, kidnapped and sold
poor children to wealthy families all over the country—Lisa Wingate’s riveting,
wrenching, and ultimately uplifting tale reminds us how, even though the paths we
take can lead to many places, the heart never forgets where we belong.
(amazon) The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of
a notorious adoption scandal - some of whom learned the truth from Lisa
Wingate's best-selling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited
with birth family members as a result of its wide reach.
(amazon) Over 150 years after her death, a widely-used
scientific computer program was named “Ada,” after Ada Lovelace, the only
legitimate daughter of the eighteenth century’s version of a rock star, Lord
Byron. Why? Because, after computer pioneers such as Alan Turing
began to rediscover her, it slowly became apparent that she had been a key but
overlooked figure in the invention of the computer. In Ada Lovelace, James
Essinger makes the case that the computer age could have started two centuries
ago if Lovelace’s contemporaries had recognized her research and fully grasped
its implications.
(amazon) Ada's Legacy illustrates the depth and diversity of
writers, thinkers, and makers who have been inspired by Ada Lovelace, the
English mathematician and writer. The volume, which commemorates the
bicentennial of Ada's birth in December 1815, celebrates Lovelace's many
achievements as well as the impact of her life and work, which reverberated
widely since the late nineteenth century. Because of its broad focus on
subjects that reach far beyond the life and work of Ada herself, Ada's Legacy
will appeal to readers who are curious about her enduring importance in
computing and the wider world.
(rottentomatoes) When Nazi U-Boats torpedo a ship carrying
83 school children during World War II, Hollywood movie star, Hedy Lamarr,
decides to exact revenge. At night, after shooting her scenes on set, she works
on a secret radio system that will allow the Allies to torpedo Nazi U-Boats
with deadly accuracy. Her sketches remain ideas until a chance encounter with
an eccentric composer enables her to transform them into useful technology. The
secret communication system she creates is groundbreaking and eventually
changes the course of history. It would make a terrific fictional film, but
this story happens to be true.
Hedy Lamarr, the screen siren who was called "the most
beautiful woman in the world" and starred alongside Hollywood giants like
Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable, invented a wireless form of
communication called "frequency hopping" that revolutionized mobile
communications all over the world, a feat that would directly lead to the
creation of secure communications for wireless phones, Bluetooth, GPS and WiFi
technology itself.
Available to rent on YouTube, Google Play, Vudu, and Amazon Prime. Available through a Netflix subscription.
A participant mentioned a poem, written by Kent M. Keith, that Lamarr reads to her children near the end of the film:
The Paradoxical Commandments
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the
smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
(amazon) As a young girl, Katherine Johnson showed an
exceptional aptitude for math. In school she quickly skipped ahead several
grades and was soon studying complex equations with the support of a professor
who saw great promise in her. But ability and opportunity did not always go
hand in hand. As an African American and a girl growing up in an era of brutal
racism and sexism, Katherine faced daily challenges. Still, she lived her life
with her father’s words in mind: “You are no better than anyone else, and
nobody else is better than you.”
In the early 1950s, Katherine was thrilled to join the organization that would
become NASA. She worked on many of NASA’s biggest projects including the Apollo
11 mission that landed the first men on the moon. Katherine Johnson’s story was
made famous in the bestselling book and Oscar-nominated film Hidden
Figures. Now in Reaching for the Moon she tells her own story for the
first time, in a lively autobiography that will inspire young readers
everywhere.
(amazon) This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a
pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary
Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous
biographies, yet no one has ever examined their lives in one book—until now.
In Romantic Outlaws, Charlotte Gordon reunites the trailblazing
author who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the
Romantic visionary who gave the world Frankenstein—two courageous women
who should have shared their lives, but instead shared a powerful literary and
feminist legacy.
(amazon) This is the story of Maria Callas. Perhaps no
performer in this century has generated such adulation, stirred such
controversy, and had so great an impact on the world of opera and the arts as
Callas. The unrivaled singing actress of our time, she is the standard against
which all others must measure themselves. She brought back a style of singing
forgotten for more that a century, revived a repertory all but lost, and
restored to the musical stage the dramatic power that is opera at its grandest.
En route she created a legend.
In discussing opera history, a participant mentioned Anna
Russell’s discerning and comedic take on Wagner’s ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’
(amazon) From Rebecca Traister, the New York Times best-selling
author of All the Single Ladies - whom Anne Lamott called "the
most brilliant voice on feminism in this country" - comes a vital,
incisive exploration into the transformative power of female anger and its
ability to transcend into a political movement.
(amazon) Newly updated to examine Hillary Clinton's
formidable 2008 presidential campaign, Women for President analyzes
the gender bias the media has demonstrated in covering women candidates since
the first woman ran for America's highest office in 1872.
Tracing the campaigns of nine women who ran for president
through 2008--Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley
Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole, Carol Moseley
Braun, and Hillary Clinton--Erika Falk finds little progress in the fair
treatment of women candidates. The press portrays female candidates as
unviable, unnatural, and incompetent, and often ignores or belittles women
instead of reporting their ideas and intent. This thorough comparison of men's
and women's campaigns reveals a worrisome trend of sexism in press coverage--a
trend that persists today.
(amazon) High school students embark on a crash course of
friendship, female empowerment, and women's health issues in Lily Williams and
Karen Schneemann's graphic novel Go With the Flow.
Good friends help you go with the flow.
Best friends help you start a revolution.
Sophomores Abby, Brit, Christine, and Sasha are fed up.
Hazelton High never has enough tampons. Or pads. Or adults who will listen.
Sick of an administration that puts football before female
health, the girls confront a world that shrugs―or worse, squirms―at the thought
of a menstruation revolution. They band together to make a change. It’s no easy
task, especially while grappling with everything from crushes to trig to JV
track but they have each other’s backs. That is, until one of the girls goes
rogue, testing the limits of their friendship and pushing the friends to
question the power of their own voices.
Now they must learn to work together to raise each other up.
But how to you stand your ground while raising bloody hell?
(amazon) When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing
letters to C. S. Lewis—known as Jack—she was looking for spiritual answers, not
love. Love, after all, wasn’t holding together her crumbling marriage.
Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the
beloved writer of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters. Embarking
on the adventure of her life, Joy traveled from America to England and back again,
facing heartbreak and poverty, discovering friendship and faith, and against
all odds, finding a love that even the threat of death couldn’t destroy.
In this masterful exploration of one of the greatest love stories of modern
times, we meet a brilliant writer, a fiercely independent mother, and a
passionate woman who changed the life of this respected author and inspired
books that still enchant us and change us. Joy lived at a time when women
weren’t meant to have a voice—and yet her love for Jack gave them both voices
they didn’t know they had. At once a fascinating historical novel and a
glimpse into a writer’s life, Becoming Mrs. Lewis is above all a love
story—a love of literature and ideas and a love between a husband and wife that,
in the end, was not impossible at all.
A few people couldn’t attend the meeting but did email me
the great books they’d read.
(amazon) An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the
former First Lady of the United States
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP
IMAGE AWARD WINNER
In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as
one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the
United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she
helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while
also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the
U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue
healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led
America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed
us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth
daughters under an unforgiving media glare.
(amazon) Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend
Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl
with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a
local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one
day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true.
At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd
to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately
halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things
off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon
-- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence. Tina Fey
reveals all, and proves what we've always suspected: you're no one until someone
calls you bossy.
(amazon) From #1 New York Times bestselling author
Cokie Roberts comes New York Times bestseller Founding Mothers, an
intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women
whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families, and their country, proved
just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that
established it.
While much has been written about the men who signed the
Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution,
the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters they left behind have been little
noticed by history. #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie
Roberts brings us women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men,
often defending their very doorsteps. Drawing upon personal correspondence,
private journals, and even favored recipes, Roberts reveals the often
surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday
trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis
Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green,
Esther DeBerdt Reed and Martha Washington, proving that without our exemplary
women, the new country might have never survived.
(amazon) From the New York Times bestselling
author of Irena’s Children comes a comprehensive and riveting
biography of the extraordinary life and times of Eliza Hamilton, the wife of
founding father Alexander Hamilton, and a powerful, unsung hero in America’s
early days.
Fans fell in love with Eliza Hamilton—Alexander Hamilton’s devoted wife—in
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s phenomenal musical Hamilton. But they don’t know her
full story. A strong pioneer woman, a loving sister, a caring mother, and in
her later years, a generous philanthropist, Eliza had many sides—and this
fascinating biography brings her multi-faceted personality to vivid life.
(amazon) We think we know the story of Eleanor
Roosevelt--the shy, awkward girl who would redefine the role of First Lady,
becoming a civil rights activist and an inspiration to generations of young
women. As legend has it, the bane of Eleanor's life was her demanding and
domineering mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt. Biographers have overlooked
the complexity of a relationship that had, over the years, been reinterpreted
and embellished by Eleanor herself.
Through diaries, letters, and interviews with Roosevelt family and friends, Jan
Pottker uncovers a story never before told. The result is a triumphant blend of
social history and psychological insight--a revealing look at Eleanor Roosevelt
and the woman who made her historic achievements possible.
The Genre Discussion Group will not be meeting in June so I’ll
see you in July for our first Salon Discussion of the year! This week we met to discuss documentary
films.
A colorful character who was not only ahead of her time but
helped to define it, Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who
became a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the
cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists.
Her colorful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max
Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless
others. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to
build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her
Venetian palazzo.
Recovering addict and amputee John Wood finds himself in a
stranger-than-fiction battle to reclaim his mummified leg from Southern
entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant, who found it in a grill he bought at an auction
and believes it to therefore be his rightful property.
This Sundance Festival sensation has attracted attention
because of its jarring images of Amish kids immersed in debauchery:
plain-dressed girls in white bonnets slugging back beers and flicking ashes
from their cigarettes, boys passing out in the back of pickups after all-night
parties, even Amish teens in bed together. But like a good drama, it's the
characters themselves and their heartbreaking dilemma that linger in the mind.
In the Amish vernacular, "Devil's Playground" refers to the
"English" or outside world. The protected teens are suddenly thrust
into this world upon their 16th birthday as they begin "Rumspringa,"
a period during which they decide whether to join the church as adults.
Crystallizing this predicament is the 73-minute documentary's most compelling
figure, 18-year-old Faron, a preacher's son fighting drug addiction. His
earnest intent to return to the church and astonishing articulateness makes his
misadventures in the drug underworld and penal system undeniably poignant. --Kimberly
Heinrichs
What if our last act could be a gift to the planet? Musician
and psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial in this immersive
documentary. While battling lymphoma, Clark has discovered a burgeoning
movement that uses burial to conserve and restore natural areas, forgoing
typical funeral practices that stress the ecosystem. Boldly facing his
mortality, Clark and his partner Jane have become passionate about green
burial, compelled by both the environmental benefits and the idea that one can
remain within the cycle of life, rather than being cut off from it. The
spirited pair have inspired a compassionate local cemetarian, and together they
aim to use green burial to save North Carolina woods from being clear-cut.
In the early 1960s, Herb & Dorothy Vogel a postal worker
and librarian began purchasing the works of unknown Minimalist and Conceptual
artists, guided by two rules: the piece had to be affordable, and it had to be
small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. They proved
themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those they supported and befriended
went on to become world-renowned artists. HERB & DOROTHY provides a unique
chronicle of the world of contemporary art from two unlikely collectors, whose
shared passion and discipline defies stereotypes and redefines what it means to
be a patron of the arts.
A
PASSION SHARED: WORKS FROM THE DOROTHY AND HERBERT VOGEL COLLECTION MARCH 14, 2010 - JUNE 06, 2010 // JEMISON GALLERIES
In 1992, the Vogels pledged more than 2,000 works to the
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Staff at the National Gallery then
worked with them to make plans for the further dissemination of their
collection. In 2008, the Fifty Works for Fifty States initiative was announced,
giving 50 works of art to one institution in each of the 50 states. The
Birmingham Museum of Art received the gift for Alabama, owing to its
“importance as an educational and cultural institution in our region.” This
exhibition featured all 50 of the donated works by an international roster of
well- and lesser-known artists. It was a great opportunity to see the work of a
number of contemporary artists whose work has never before been exhibited in
the Southeast.
The Walter Anderson Museum opened in 1991 and is dedicated
to the preservation and promotion of the works of Walter Inglis Anderson
(1903-1965). Anderson is celebrated as an American master, whose depictions of
the plants, animals, and people of the Gulf Coast have placed him among the
foremost of American painters of the Twentieth Century. A visit to the Walter
Anderson Museum of Art (WAMA) is an enchanting and unique experience. During a
visit to the museum, visitors are offered insight into the artistic vision of
Walter as well as his process and the natural environment that inspired him.
The museum also strives to preserve and educate the public on the work of
Walter's brothers: Peter Anderson (1901-1984), master potter and founder of
Shearwater Pottery; and James McConnell Anderson (1907-1998), noted painter and
ceramist.
Join the Crawl every first Thursday of the month from 5-9
p.m., rain or shine, along 2nd Avenue North surrounding The Pizitz building.
Art Crawl is a great way to meet local artists and performers,
buy and appreciate their work, and be part of the rapidly growing art scene in
Birmingham. An estimated 3,000 art enthusiasts attend each month to support
over 75local artists, musicians, and performers.
One of the most popular albums of all times, Fleetwood Mac's
1977 album "RUMOURS" spent 130 weeks on the U.S. Billboard album
chart and won the Album of the Year award at the 1978 Grammy Awards. It has
been certified for sales of 19 million albums by the RIAA. The record almost wasn't made. John and Christine McVie were
in the process of seperating, the relationship of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie
Nicks was on the fritz, and the turmoil between the five members was high.
These emotions were channeled into the songwriting process in Sausalito,
California that became "RUMOURS". Featuring interviews with Mick
Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks,
along with the studio engineers and producers, "Rumours" tells the story of the making of this smash album.
From BAFTA award--winning director Asif Kapadia (SENNA), AMY
is the incredible story of six--time Grammy(R) award winner Amy Winehouse - in
her own words. Featuring extensive never-before-seen archival footage and
previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving, and vital film
shines a light on the world we live in, in a way that very few can.
I Am Heath Ledger is a feature length documentary
celebrating the life of Heath Ledger: actor, artist and icon. The documentary
provides an intimate look at Heath Ledger through the lens of his own camera as
he films and often performs in his own personal journey - extravagant in gesture
and in action. It was his creative energy and unshakable willingness to take
risks that instilled such an extraordinarily deep love and affection in the
people that entered his life. Heath's artistic nature and expression set him
apart from the Hollywood mainstream, vaulted him to stardom and endeared him to
the world.
In 1942 soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a
secret military program was launched to recruit female mathematicians who would
become human computers for the US military. Top Secret Rosies: The Female
Computers of WWII shares a story of the women and technology that helped win a
war and usher in the modern computer age.
See the gripping rise of the first all-girl hard rock band,
its hopes and dreams, and its eventual disintegration as the result of media
belittling, in-fighting and drug use amidst rumors of verbal and emotional
abuse by the band's management.
The Red Pill chronicles filmmaker Cassie Jaye's journey
following the mysterious and polarizing Men's Rights Movement. The Red Pill
explores today's gender war and asks the question "what is the future of
gender equality?" Cassie Jaye’s journey exploring an alternate perspective
on gender equality, power and privilege forces her and others to question their
own beliefs.
This show takes the viewers across the country and
celebrates the funky-looking buildings :from Clam Box in Ipswich,
Massachusetts, to Bondurants' Pharmacy in Lexington, Kentucky, to a drug store
in the shape of a giant mortar and pestle; and the hot-dog-shaped Tail o' the
Pup in West Hollywood, California, and everywhere in between. We'll also visit
the Mother Goose house in Kentucky and visit with Bill Griffith, the man behind
Zippy the Pinhead cartoon strip.
It pulls, stretches, bubbles, hardens, crunches, and melts!
We eat about 7-billion tons of it yearly. We're talking about Candy--loved by
kids and savored by adults. Candy-making evolved from a handmade operation to
high-tech mass production. Nowhere is that more apparent than at Hershey's. On
a tour of their newest production facility, we learn how they process the cocoa
bean. At See's Candy, we see how they make their famous boxed chocolates--on a
slightly smaller scale than Hershey's. We get a sweet history lesson at
Schimpff's Confectionery, where they still use small kettles, natural flavors,
and hand-operated equipment. Then, we visit Jelly Belly, purveyors of the
original gourmet jellybean. Saltwater-taffy pullers hypnotize us on our
sweet-tooth tour, we gaze at extruders making miles of licorice rope, and watch
as nostalgia candy bars Abba-Zaba and Big Hunk get packaged. And in this sugary
hour, we digest the latest sensations--gourmet chocolates and scorpion on a
stick!
Toyland takes you inside the high stakes world of the 22
billion dollar toy industry, where fun and fortune awaits those who know how to
get inside the mind of a child. Meet the people behind the biggest playthings
in history.
This documentary follows the ups-and-downs of a flock of
urban parrots in San Francisco and the aging bohemian who befriends, feeds and
names them. Along the way, we meet many unforgettable characters and learn just
how wondrously similar the human and animal worlds really are.
Marjoe Gortner, today known primarily for his acting roles
in B-movies, was at one time a boy faith healer and evangelist. Wildly popular
in the American South, he could fill huge tent revival meetings with his
promises of eternal salvation and healing. What the people who came to his
meetings didn't know, and what this documentary shows, is that he was a fake
who was used by others to make money.
The bearded-face of Burt's Bees, a pioneering company in
all-natural personal care, is not an imagined icon slapped onto distinctive
yellow packaging, but the likeness of founder Burt Shavitz. Documentarian Jody
Shapiro (How to Start Your Own Country) draws an intimate portrait of the
lesser-known man behind the brand in Burt s Buzz. The project, suggested and
produced by Isabella Rossellini, never exoticizes the 76-year old recluse, but
thoughtfully approaches his contradictory public and private life. Hardly
resting on the unaided appeal of his strangely charming subject, Shapiro frames
emotion and wry humor with subtlety to create a layered, lively documentary.
During an adventure spanning two years and two countries,
two mega-fans of “A Christmas Story” set out to discover all the film’s
shooting locations. Along the way they uncover forgotten facts, discover
little-known locations and recover long-lost movie memorabilia.
Page One deftly gains
unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of
the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the main news source and
newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, PAGE ONE chronicles the
transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil. It gives
us an up-close look at the vibrant cross-cubicle debates and collaborations,
tenacious jockeying for on-the-record quotes, and skillful page-one pitching
that produce the daily miracle of a great news organization. What emerges is a
nuanced portrait of journalists continuing to produce extraordinary work under
increasingly difficult circumstances. At the heart of the film is the burning
question on the minds of everyone who cares about a rigorous American press,
Times lover or not: what will happen if the fast-moving future of media leaves
behind the fact-based, original reporting that helps to define our society?
While the O'Neal Library undergoes a major interior renovation, visit the temporary express location in Mountain Brook City Hall. Open Wednesdays 9am -2pm (closes early for city court session), and 9am-5pm the rest of the week. The Library is not open on
weekends. Have a question? Let us know at help@oneallibrary.org!
While the O'Neal Library undergoes a major interior renovation, visit the temporary express location in Mountain Brook City Hall. Open Wednesdays 9am -2pm (closes early for city court session), and 9am-6pm the rest of the week. The Library is not open on
weekends.
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