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Category Archives: Screen
Do Justice to the Ones You Love
A few weeks ago, my husband Kurt and I watched “Kedi”, a thoroughly delightful movie about the historic street cats of Istanbul, Turkey. These cats have no defined owners, they are not picked out at animal shelters or pet stores. … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Courage, Creativity, Fabulous, Happiness, Ideas, Love, Op/Ed Thoughts, Screen
Tagged Best-kept secrets in Knoxville, Downtown West, Kedi, Kedi the movie, Knoxville, the cats of Istanbul
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Remembering Darcas Montgomery’s Exuberant Son
[On December 2, 2016, my dear father Roy Rotha Allen passed away at the age of 81. His health and memory had declined for years–but his health failed more precipitously over the past 14 months. Although Daddy had been hospitalized lately, … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Childhood, Courage, Family, Home, Knoxville, Love, Music, Screen, Travel
Tagged A Summer Place, Anderson News, Audie Murphy, Church of the Latter Day Saints, Darcas Montgomery, Dr. Zhivago, eulogy, Floyd Cramer, House Hasson Hardware, Jeff Chandler, Kern's Bakery, Kitty Kallen, Knoxville, Lay Packing Company, Little Things Mean Alot, Matthew McConaughey, Mormons, New York Yankees, Pat Summitt, pellagra psychosis, Psalm 100, Quakers, Skeeter Davis, South Knoxville High School, Stanley's Greenhouse, Tennessee, The UT Lady Vol basketball program, The UT Lady Volunteers, White Lily Flour
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Work is a Kind of Love
~ wrote Marilyn Monroe in her recently discovered journal While watching the HBO documentary “Love, Marilyn”, my husband Kurt and I were surprised to hear the depth of the intelligence and insight found in Marilyn Monroe’s private thoughts as she … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiographical, Happiness, Ideas, Love, Photography, Screen, Tribute, Work
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Harper Lee’s Handlers Kill a Mockingbird
Ever since I read that To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee’s lawyer Tonya Carter and publisher HarperCollins were planning to publish the first draft of a novel she wrote 57 or so years ago, I have been sick to death … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Op/Ed Thoughts, Screen, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Alice Lee, American Masters, Atticus Finch, Desegregation, Go Set a Watchman, Gregory Peck, Harper Lee, HarperCollins Publishers, Mary Badham, Michiko Kakutani, Nelle Lee, Pulitzer Prize, Racism, Scout, segregation, Tay Hohoff, The New York Times, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tonya Carter
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All the Blogposts I Didn’t Write
Yes, I have been spending too much eating, sleeping, dashing about, and in general thinking about, but not writing, blogposts. Guilty, guilty, guilty as charged. Here are just a few of the blogposts I didn’t write: Divine Celtic and Eastern … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Courage, Food, Happiness, Music, Op/Ed Thoughts, Screen, Travel, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Birdman, blogposts, Chief Dan George, Comanches, FDR, Lone Watie, Loreena McKennitt, Quanah Parker, S. C. Gwynne, Teddy Roosevelt, The Empire of the Summer Moon, The Outlaw Josey Wales
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Birds a la Hitchcock, Ballanchine, and Boogaloo
On Wednesday I woke up and looked out our front door to find snow, ice, and swarms of birds (and I mean hundreds, not just a tweeting few) raucously flip-flapping as if they were reenacting a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s … Continue reading
Posted in "Pets", Autobiographical, Backyard Nature, Books, Childhood, Courage, Freedom, Love, Screen, The Arts, Writing
Tagged Art house cinema, Birds, Boogaloo and Graham, Books of the Times, Downtown West, Dwight Garner, George Ballanchine, goshawks, Helen Macdonald, Live Action Short Films, Pet chickens, Robert Frost, The Academy Awards, The New York Times, The Oscars
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Hello 2015: What to Watch, Eat, and Read, Right Now!
What to Watch. Ok. Stop everything you are doing and run out and see the Indian (as in Asian, not as in Native Americans) movie called “PK”. I’m gonna fully admit something here, but I have not had time to … Continue reading
Posted in Food, John Irving, Joy (Joie de General), Knoxville, Screen
Tagged Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Australia, Dublin, Fresh to Order, Hello From the Gillespies, India, Knoxville, Monica McInerney, PK
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The Best (and Worst) Movies of a Disappointing Movie Year: 2014
When I was 5 years old in the final days of August 1963, we visited Daddy’s relatives who lived just outside Washington, DC, in Silver Spring, Maryland. My family was not politically aware: Daddy concerned himself with trying to make … Continue reading
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Tagged A Walk Among the Tombstones, Belle, Best Movies of 2014, Beyond the Lights, Birdman, Boyhood, Chef, Chief Dan George, Chris Rock, Doctor Zhivago, Ellar Coltrane, Emma Stone, Ethan Hawke, Harvey, I Have a Dream, Jeremiah Johnson, Jimmy Stewart, Jon Manchip White, Liam Neeson, Linda Hamilton, M*A*S*H, march on Washington, Michael Keaton, Moonrise Kingdom, Ordinary People, Patricia Arquette, Queen Margot, Richard Linklater, Summer Magic, The Dancer Upstairs, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Sting, Top Five, Whiplash
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He Stopped Passing the Open Windows
When I was young and struggling to raise my son on a secretary’s meager pay while working on my degree, my friend Amy and I used to say to each other, “Keep passing those open windows.” This way of encouraging … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, John Irving, Joy (Joie de General), Op/Ed Thoughts, Screen, Tribute
Tagged Anna Kendrick, Ben Affleck, Billy Crystal, Captain, Dead Poets Society, Donald Justice, Garp, Glenn Close, Good Will Hunting, Jenny Fields, John Irving, John Keating, John Lithgow, Keep Passing the Open Windows, Matt Damon, O Captain, Robin Williams, Sean Maguire, The Hotel New Hampshire, The World According to Garp, USO, Walt Whitman, Whoopie Goldberg
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Stage Left With America’s Finest Character Actress, Dale Dickey
“If I got my teeth whitened, I’d probably never get another job,” Dale Dickey laughed when I met her in our shared hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2010. That year brought the level of acclaim so richly deserved by Dale, one … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Joy (Joie de General), Knoxville, Photography, Screen, Stage, Style, The Arts, Tribute
Tagged #True Blood, Clarence Brown Theatre, Dale Dickey, Emporium Building, Independent Spirit Awards, Jackson Avenue, Jennifer Lawrence, JFG Coffee Building, John Hawkes, Knoxville, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Weiss, Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee, Tennessee Stage Company, The Sundance Film Festival, Tom Jones, Tom Parkhill, University of Tennessee, Winter's Bone
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