Archive for December, 2005
TV and Radio - Intimacy or Anti-intimacy Devices?
Okay, so it’s very nearly the big day - Christmas. And for those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas but rather eat Chinese food in bustling restaurants on Christmas weekend, there’s something here for you, too.
I have rediscovered my television ON button. With college basketball season near full swing, there’s no way it’s remaining off for the whole of the winter. But, maybe it should.
While relaxing with a friend recently, a woman I’ve been soul-mate close to for 25 years, and flipping around commercials on the channel we were watching, I A.D.D.’d my way over to MTV. My friend, being a woman, has long since learned that channel flipping is a male thing and doesn’t mind it much. Anyway, MTV…
The Real World
MTV runs a program called, Real World. They…
Touch Someone in Every Scene
Last night I caught an episode of Inside the Actor Studio. Michael J. Fox was the guest.
Far from his early days playing the caricature of the 1980’s money- and power-crazed future businessman, Fox has become more than an actor; he has become a teacher.
Parkinson Disease has slowed him. That is a natural consequence of a horrid illness. But more than that, it seems to have raised him up. Fox exudes a kind of pressure-free peace with life that few people I have seen have. Today, he speaks with a blend of weight and lightness– the kind of weight that comes from nights in deep trenches and days that seem like those nights. The weight of Fox’s insights, his credibility, rises from the soul of a man who has…
