As with most award programs, the Emmy Awards were established in 1949 by the Academy for Television Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles as part of a public relations program. The Emmy statue is a winged woman to represent art holding an atom that refers to science. The 62nd Prime Time Emmy Awards will be held on Sunday, August 29, hosted by NBC’s Late Night comedian Jimmy Fallon from the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles. For the first time,... Read more
This brief trailer is an introduction to the life of our Founder, Blessed James Alberione. If you would like to contribute to a one hour documentary about his life, please visit Pauline Books & Media Read more
100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media in Classroom Cannot recall if I posted this before, so just in case! Read more
Let’s face it. There are some books that should never be made into movies. Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth “Liz” Gilbert, my favorite book of 2008, is one of these. I wanted to like the film, but got an inkling it might not live up to my expectations when I saw Julia Roberts, who plays Liz in the film, ride a bicycle along a tropical byway with what looks like a pasted-on smile. It didn’t ring true and in my... Read more
For several days now our Sr Helena has been posting on Facebook (Sr Anne, too) about Transformers being filmed in our back alley and in Chicago… Here is Sr Helena’s short video of the “disaster” in our alley behind 172 N Michigan Ave a couple of days ago…. All media are constructed realities…. Oh, and Sr Helena met Shia Lebeuouf, too! Read more
Today a friend posted Kenneth Branagh’s St Crispan’s Day Speech from Henry V on Facebook and I was reminded of one of Hollywood’s great rip offs of Shakespeare. Listen, compare it with Bill Pullman’s Independence Day speech from the film … enjoy! True, it’s old news, but a good example of extreme intertextuality! President’s Speech Independence Day Read more
Here’s my review of The Big C , based on the first episode: Showtime’s THE BIG C Read more
When Lucy Walker’s documentary about the current global nuclear threat opens this weekend in Washington, DC and New York (and begins a national rollout next weekend), interested citizens will have the opportunity to obtain free passes, courtesy of “angels” who are sponsoring tickets. Participant Media produced Countdown to Zero and previously produced the Academy Award winning films An Inconvenient Truth and The Cove. Participant Media’s goal is to provide “entertainment that inspires and compels social change.” Last year, Participant Media’s... Read more
For a film essay by Sr. Hosea Rupprecht and I, visit The Tidings or a slightly different version at Arkansas Catholic. Read more
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