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PINTER'S NOBLE NOBEL ACCEPTANCE SPEECH. At first glance I thought it was a decent gesture of The Santa Cruz Sentinel to print playwright Harold Pinter's acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in literature, in last Sunday's edition. Pinter has been a serious and courageous critic, in print and in person, of the US foreign policy for decades. I paid no attention to the Sentinel's small opening note that what they printed was an excerpt. I got suspicious after reading Keelin McDonell's scathing attack on both Pinter and the speech. McDonell is a researcher for the right wing The New Republic, now mostly a conservative outlet, and he also writes for Slate (the Washington Post's online paper) McDonell called Pinter's politics "repellent", said Pinter's speech was "cynical and ineloquent", "strident" and "clumsy", and that it contained "little hopeful rhetoric". McDonell said the speech was a "polemic assembled entirely from cynical negations". He went on to call Pinter's speech a "screed" and "paranoid". McDonell closed his attack on Pinter by saying the speech "will have little resonance just one generation from now", and that Pinter has "already conceded defeat". I urge you to go to the original and full Pinter speech, before the Sentinel cut it. The Sentinel cut a huge 120 lines (that's more than 1000 words) of Pinter's introduction. He tells of political theatre, developing characters, and outlines the essence of his entire speech. The Sentinel went on to cut 45 lines of a Pablo Naruda poem that Pinter included along with that they edited 5 lines of copy that Pinter wrote concerning that Naruda poem. BUT...Those extensive cuts don't compare with their eliminating of 23 lines of an original poem titled "Death" that Pinter composed just for this speech. Go to the full speech www.nobelprize.org/literature2005 and if you don't have time, then read these closing lines of Pinter's speech (also eliminated by The Sentinel), which followed Pinter's poem and was the real ending of his speech. Here Pinter sums up a writer's life, and also asks Americans to re-examine our own world image.
"When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror - for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.
If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man".
NEW YEARS RESOLUTION. One of those educational TV channels said in a special report last week that we here on our stretch of the left coast could be due for a tsunami as high as 90 feet. Then Monday our beloved Santa Cruz Sentinel reported that Dana Point is now certified by the National Weather Service as "tsunami ready". Let's ask our Santa Cruz City Council to help us develop a tsunami plan in 2006. Not a $10 billion dollar plan, not one with $200,000 paid to some dingle berry consultant, just one that will work immediately, until we get a real one in place. For example, the police, Disaster Center, the sheriff, and fire departments getting it together and telling us which areas of the city would drive to which location, on which streets? Maybe a readable downloadable map that would show us which neighborhoods would drown at 30 feet, 50 feet etc. Doesn't the City owe us that? Just an escape plan? If we don't get some plan soon, the only survivors will be a handful of award winning Maverick surfers.
PATTON DETAILS MONTEREY'S GENERAL PLAN. Read what Gary has to say about the $5 million Monterey County spent on their general plan. Read too what he says about the contents of that plan. Them pesky General Plans are supposed to be guides for our future, so we need to learn from Gary's writings.
EAGAN DEALS WITH CHRISTMAS. Check out our resident Scrooge's take on holiday spirit all at the bottom of this page.
KING KONG. Just go see it, and on the biggest screen possible (not theatre #7 at the Cinema 9). It's a three plus hours of a roller coaster ride, much better than the Jessica Lange version, not as campy, or as charming, as the Fay Wray version...just mile a minute thrills, plus great monsters. That said, if you do want to think about something after you see it, ask yourself, and then tell me, what was all that stuff between the African American cook and the young stow away? How come the young stow away was reading Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness? Here's a Joseph Conrad quote, "The Terrorist and the policemen both come from the same basket". That's one to think about. I Vivisimo'd Conrad's Heart of Darkness and got one interpretation that might be what Dir. Peter Jackson had in mind in KONG? "Traditional interpretations of lightness and darkness tend to correlate lightness with goodness and purity, and darkness with evil and corruption. However, in Heart of Darkness, the definitions of lightness and darkness can be reversed. Darkness can be interpreted to stand for the purity and innocence of the native's lifestyle, while lightness can be seen as the corruption, greed, and exploitative ways of the white men. The natives lived by the code of nature in a sort of "darkness," in that they had not been exposed to the corruption of the civilized world". Be that as it may this King Kong is full of excitement, pathos, and grungy things that go bump in the daytime. It'll be almost nothing on your screen at home.
FAMILY STONE. Seeing this mean spirited attempt at being a comedy will make you appreciate your family Christmas get-togethers all the more. Sarah Jessica Parker steals the film from Diane Keaton, Claire Danes and Dermot Mulroney, she's a fine actor. Junebug was a much superior film and is also about a guy bringing his uptight girlfriend home to meet the family. Family Stone is too mean, too full of family history that isn't dealt with, to be funny. Rent it in about 5 years.
MORE ON CROSSING BORDERS. (check the letters to the editor) Thom Onan emailed in to say he's still boycotting Borders but Connie Bertucca also emailed and she just doesn't get the idea that some of us (not enough) do our best to not just boycott Borders but also boycott Costco, Quiznos, Baja Fresh, Stone Cold Creamery and Trader Joes. Shopping at any or all of these franchises kills local businesses and takes the profits out of our County or even our state like Trader Joes. The local bookstores Logos, Literary Guillotine, Capitola Book Café, Gateways, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Westside Stories, and other independents across the country are terribly threatened by the chains and their unfair book selling deals. It takes extra dedication to continue supporting independent book stores, but the good they do our community makes it worth it.
COLUMN HOLIDAY. It's back to LA and Grandsons for the Christmas holiday, and just to be non-traditional, I'm taking a week off from the column. Something I've never done willingly. So thanks to Gunilla Leavitt at www.godmomasforge.com for all the weekly work on maintaining this online adventure, which along with my daughter Hillary includes sorely needed editing. Special thanks too to Eric Fingal of Covello & Covello Photography for all the work on finding the historic photos. Still, more thanks are due to long time friends Gary Patton and Tim Eagan, for providing breadth and depth to this enterprise. And to Margie Kay and Jan Mitchell for revealing Monterey's secrets so diligently. Beyond that, thanks to Bookshop Santa Cruz for selling the hard copy version of the column. Your emails and hot tips have been increasing rapidly and I'm grateful. Sorry I can't get to answer them all, but I love you all... it's been another great year, thanks to you. I'll be back with BrattonOnline January 2, 2006. Take it easy, and have a good time.
QUOTES. Here's an extra large bunch of goodies to tide you over "The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband." -Joan Rivers. "You know you're getting old, when Santa starts looking younger." -Robert Paul. "I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included." -Bernard Herman. "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph." -Shirley Temple. "Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?" -Bill Waterson, Calvin and Hobbes. "Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." -Unknown. "Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas." -Kin Hubbard. "And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more." -Doctor Seuss.
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UCSC'S WATER SUPPLY. I had an interesting talk with hydrologist Bob Curry last week about the supply of water on the UCSC Campus. Bob just took part in a big conference at CSUMB last week involving the other three or more plans to put desalinization plants around our Monterey bay. Bob says that UCSC has plenty of their own water right on the campus. They have more than 20 potential well sites and the sites up hill wouldn't be all that deep. The problem is that UCSC doesn't want to dig wells because they're saving the areas for new buildings. Curry also said he supports the Santa Cruz Desalinization plant idea but not in the location near Neary Lagoon. He also said that the idea of dumping all that super brine salt waste from the desal plant right with our waste water processing is a bad idea. Can we assume that somebody is listening to his concerns, and will answer them before rushing headlong into disaster?
STILL BOYCOTTING BORDERS? I'm wondering just how many readers are still boycotting Borders on Pacific Avenue? I've never entered their doors and I still believe in supporting the many independent bookstores around the country and especially in Santa Cruz.
GREAT VIDEOS. One of the best Holiday presents I think I can give you are some worthwhile DVDs to watch. Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man has been highly praised this year, but have you heard of his other new one...The White Diamond? It's a superb documentary about an eccentric who wants to fly his weird hot air balloon in the rainforests of Guyana. Watch it. Also check out Bolivia (2001) directed by Adrian Caetano, it's new on DVD. It is a drama dealing with racism and poverty in Buenos Aires. Leolo (1992) is my new found favorite, sort of a Fellini type image about a young boy in Montreal who dreams he's in Italy...brilliant. The Tunnel (2001) is a thriller based on the first digging of a tunnel from East to West Berlin. There are dozens more that I'm going to make available only to BrattonOnline.com subscribers pretty soon. So subscribe, it's free, and it helps support this column. These DVDs, and easily 100 more that I've been reviewing, are all available at Cedar Street Video right next to the Bagelry. There's a list of more of my recommended films posted on the wall at Cedar Street Video, check them out.
BAY NEWS. Gary Patton's reports this week warn us about the proposed expansion of the quarry in Bonny Doon. He tells us about growth in Hollister, the screening of the anti Wal-Mart film and the many land use problems facing every county around our Bay.
CHRISTMAS TREES AND HANUKKAH BUSHES. Assuming you and family like tramping through the trees and cutting your own Hanukkah Bush try the Ward Ranch Choose and Cut Christmas Trees at 4820 Bonny Doon Road, in Bonny Doon. It's not far from the Bonny Doon winery, and you could get a taste en route! It also isn't far from Harry Hamburg's old place, just past Roy Rydells and Page and Eliose Smiths. All trees are prix fixe, and they're only open on weekends, but its nicely friendly and has a family feeling, call 423-6975.
GOOD TIMES AND WEEKLY HISTORICAL PHOTOS. I began running weekly historical photos of Santa Cruz, environs, and people more than 25 years ago, as best I remember. 99.8 % have all been from Covello & Covello Photographers. Covello & Covello are located over at the Sashmill, 303 Potrero St. (423-2922) C&C focuses as much on portraits, weddings, commercial and stock photography as they do historical photos. What's great is that starting in the January 5, 2006 issue Good Times is going to print a weekly historical photo, along with my pithy, deeply incisive, and nearly humorous remarks. So watch Good Times...any time, but especially starting January 5. See you there. No, they won't be the same photos as I use here online. By the way don't forget to tell your friends (who don't use computers) that they can buy this online column every week at Bookshop Santa Cruz. It's a courtesy thing that we're trying out for the internet challenged, so get over to Bookshop Santa Cruz weekly.
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. One of the finest love stories I've ever seen. If you have been in a love involvement that you literally couldn't control, see this film. The American Film Institute named it as an official selection for their awards for 2005, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association just named it the best film of the year, and if the Academy of Motion Pictures has any integrity at all it should win every Oscar possible. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal redefined acting in this and Director Ang Lee more than made up for his directing of The Hulk. Try not to even think about the gay thing, and just let the movie unfold. What's only true in the film business, is that Heath Ledger's next film, and about to open soon, is playing the most notorious stud of all time in the Venetian comedy Casanova. Ledger ends up debating women's rights advocate Francesca Bruni. Oliver Platt and Jeremy Irons flounce around in it too.
CHRONICLES OF NARNIA. I just learned from reading Roger Ebert that J.R.R. Tolkien of Lord of the Ring fame, and C.S. Lewis were good friends and taught together at Oxford. That they were both Christians shouldn't prevent you from enjoying Chronicles. It is a wonderful film, loaded full with excellent visual effects that make the film as great as it is. Tilda Swinton must have loved being in this film, she plays her part to the hilt. Jim Broadbent doesn't have much of a task, and his hair looks phony, but this is a stunning, exciting, dazzling and totally impressive film. Even though President Bush's evangelical despots are pushing Chronicles, see it anyways.
SYRIANA. By now most of the world knows the troubles are all about oil. We know there's treachery, collusion, despicable rulers running the world, and this film tells us about all of that. George Clooney plays a unusual part (for him) and while the plot is hard to follow, it's well worth your time and pondering. Matt Damon, Chris Cooper, Christopher Plummer and Amanda Peet all play characters that have secret and curious links to each other. The film is a puzzle of modern international politics; see it on the big screen.
THE GAY RODEO CIRCUIT. One reviewer of Brokeback Mountain someplace, maybe The New Yorker, mentioned that there was a gay rodeo circuit...Googling made it easy to find, go to www.finalsrodeo.com/news/guardian.php. It's a story from the Guardian Unlimited that's on the web page telling about The November 2005 Gay Rodeo in Dallas. Who knew? Read the story and you'll learn where there's been gay rodeos since 1976 and that the International Gay Rodeo Association is the second largest rodeo organizer in the world. There are ropers and riders in drag; they dress sheep in costume, and other things you wouldn't believe. It has absolutely nothing to do with Brokeback Mountain, but it's interesting.
NOT STARBUCKS. Peter Beckman emailed from his new home in NYC. "I thought you might get a kick out of this, besides: it fits right into your mission (if I interpret it correctly) http://delocator.net/index.php It sure has helped me a lot, being so far from our nice little home-grown Santa Cruz! This link will show anyone anywhere how you can find an independently owned coffee house" It appears to have every home owned coffee place I know of in our county, and every place else too...check it out.
SAN LORENZO TIDELANDS AND FISHING. After running last week's historical photo showing the San Lorenzo River tidelands down by Barson and Pearl streets Ed Penniman emailed about what he calls Charlie's Boat Dock on the San Lorenzo. "I recall the dock later in the mid 50's when Charlie owned it. He was married to an American Indian woman and had two kids, Jimmy and his younger sister Pennie, I think. He had close to thirty craft. Some canoes, rowboats, and best of all, paddle-boats. My brother Warren and I bought an old one, restored it, painted it pink (which was a cool color in the mid fifties along with charcoal, black and lavender, and horseshoe taps). We used butch-wax to lube the chain drive. Charlie liked to drink a little but never too much, he really worked hard along side his nicely browned kin. My bro and I took the paddle-boat through the breakers at the mouth of the San Lorenzo and made for Monterey as a joke. We got caught in a rip and our Dad rescued us by swimming out to get us and pulled us in at Twin Lakes. The SL River at that point in time was lined with Eucalyptus, moss, all kinds of waterfowl from the sea and river, all kinds of fish. As a side note, Charlie owned a 1938 Buick 4 door sedan with big loudspeakers mounted on the roof. He played "Cruising down the river on a Sunday Afternoon" and Zither music. Memories? I have a million of 'em. You could round this story out by asking my bro Pen. Many of Charlie's boats came in handy in the flood of '55 when Barson and Pearl Sts were 6 feet under water. Ed Penniman 1942 May 12 SCHS '60.
ANOTHER PENNIMAN. Ed Penniman's brother Warren Penniman remembers Charlie's boats on the mighty San Lorenzo and Charlie's daughter with some pointed remarks. More importantly, Warren sends us this article from Sunday's NY Times telling the world just how wonderful Santa Cruz is. Read it here (registering is free) and send it on to your friends...IF they promise not to move here.
QUOTES. "Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!" -Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, 1836. "Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call." -Richard Lewis "In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'" -Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide" "Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home." -Carol Nelson "Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space." -Dave Barry
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NEVER A DULL MOMENT. The full title of this absolutely amazing book is Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk The Early Years. It came out in 2003, published by The Pacific Group. I hadn't read it until now; I figured it was some thrown together piece of fluff assembled by some summer-time Boardwalk fan with Seaside Company backing. Nope, not at all. Chandra Moira Beal and Richard A. Beal did lengthy research on their own and were even refused access to the Seaside Company archives of documents and photographs. Trusty old Harold J. van Gorder (102), UCSC's Special Collections, and of course Covello & Covello all supplied the historic photos.
Buy the book, read the chapter on page 165 Beach Ownership Dispute-Again. Read how Fred Swanton, former Mayor and president of the Seaside Company "reminded people that part of the Beach Auditorium and Boardwalk were also on City property". Read further how the City held a surprise health inspection of the Boardwalk vendors the Seaside Company and the Casa del Rey. Then read how the Seaside Company paid $15,000 in taxes that year and wanted more police protection on the Boardwalk. There's also the part on page 51 where "Swanton proposed to the City of Santa Cruz and Capitola railroad that they jointly purchase the existing Southern Pacific Railroad Bridge and move it slightly north". The closing section says, "Today the Seaside Company apparently has a five member board of directors and about 85 stockholders. The Canfield Family controls most of the stock. The Seaside Company also owns quite a bit of property in the "beach flats" area and periodically expresses interest in developing the entire area".
When you read the book and think about the Seaside Company throwing up that illegal locked gate (it's still there!) and now they are suing the City in a lawsuit over the title to property they say is theirs and not the States or the City. Noting that the legal battles over the property lines date back to 1889 (pg 42) it makes you wonder just how much of a good neighbor The Boardwalk really wants to be. As I've stated many times, it would be such a different picture if only the Seaside Company paid their fair share of city taxes.
SAFEWAY LOVES US. You haven't seen or heard clever, well trained, shrewd, better choreographed developers until you watch a performance by The Official Safeway Song and Dance Ensemble. They were in town at the LONDON Nelson Community Center last week to tell us about an updated traffic report for Mission and Miramar Streets. This report is part of their plans to demolish the existing Safeway Store on Mission which is 35,000 square feet and build a new one on the Tobey Rasp lot behind it which will be almost double the size at 60,000 square feet. I stopped by the Aptos Safeway, which has been recently enlarged, and asked the manager what the size of his store is as a reference...he had no idea of the size. The results of the meeting? Well Safeway is recommending putting a stop light at Miramar and maybe adding pork chops or bulbs to the sidewalks. I'm not sure about pork chops and bulbs, I guess they're those weird configurations in curbs that ruin your wheel rims. The Safeway Singers said that doubling the store size wouldn't really increase the amount of traffic, and as ridiculous as it seems, I see their point. Where would new traffic come from? Not from the East side where they have the Morrissey store, not from mid county with their 41st Avenue store, and not from Aptos where they have the Rancho Del Mar Store. No, the new and more business that Safeway is banking on will come from all the new services/vendors that will be in the Mission Store. Did you know that there's a Starbuck's Coffee Store INSIDE the Aptos Safeway? I didn't, until this weekend.
SAFEWAY'S THEORY. Safeway is betting that the traffic won't increase much BUT that everybody who shops there now will continue to do so AND will buy more at all the new services that'll be contained in the store. One nagging problem with the Safeway Traffic study is that they didn't include the 6000 more UCSC students in UC's newly announced plan. Of course these students will live mostly on the Westside or maybe even on campus. The traffic study will be turned in in two weeks, comments and drawings to and from the City Council probably by January, and a minimum of 9 months before construction and 2 years before completion.
LAND USE I trust you are keeping up with Gary Patton's Land Use Reports. Some good stuff there, and we are ever so thankful to Gary for publishing them.
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE. (repeat from earlier column) Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney have never been better than they are in this wonderful pithy, poignant, touching, delicate film about a marriage breaking up. If you've ever hung out with an educated type bunch of people you'll see them all in this one. It's a New York in the '80's set but not like Woody Allen's works at all. Give yourself a present and go.
RENT. This film might have been fun about 10 years ago watching it live on stage when Aids and cross dressing were edgy topics but now this makes an unsingable, dull musical. The songs are trite, barely average musically; it did not survive the transition to the screen.
AEON FLUX. Yes, I saw it and you shouldn't even think about it. When it comes out on DVD try to destroy any copies you see in video stores to prevent anybody else from seeing it, it's the least you can do. Yes, Frances McDormond, Pete Postlethwaite and Klaus Kinski's son Nicolai are in this dreck, but try not to think about them either, or what's her name also.
JUST FRIENDS. Ryan Reynolds is in it, whoever he is, and he loves Amy Stuart, as if you should, like care. I went to this by mistake...don't repeat my error.
THE ICE HARVEST. Billy Bob Thornton, John Cusack and Oliver Platt all appear to work very casually to make this a very funny film. Really crude jokes, really clever jokes, plot twists, and it all takes place in Kansas. If you need a laugh this holiday season this is it.
JESUS IS MAGIC. Warning...anybody who is offended by anything should NOT go to this movie. Sarah Silverman was wildly great and 100% surprising in The Aristocrats and audiences who enjoy satire, heavy satire were waiting for this film. It is wonderful. Sarah has created a comic style that is much deeper than most stand up comics. We may never figure out where she's coming from but she is creative and most importantly she has that gift of seeing everybody around her (that's us) in a new way. See zings seniors, small people, all ethnic groups, religions everything so just go if you want to lose control and enjoy laughing when you shouldn't.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. It's more, rather than less, of a feel-good film about South Africans after apartheid. How the folks relate, the acting isn't too good, the photography is barely ok, but it does show you a part of today's culture. Could have been much better. Go warned.
HOLIDAY VIEWING. In addition to afore mentioned, take or send your Holiday visitors to Pride&Prejudice, Good Night, and Good Luck, Capote.
QUESTION...MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA? I didn't read the book, but I'm pretty sure it's about Japan, right? And aren't all, or most of, the women in the soon to be released film Chinese? I wonder if Sarah Silverman has added comments on this in her stand up act lately? I asked film lecturer Earl Jackson for his comments on Memoirs of A Geisha...he replied, "I hit the ceiling when I saw that trailer - it's absolutely disgusting. I don't care if they're Chinese-they're basically Americans and that's a Hollywood sound stage NOT Kyoto, and the things they say about geisha are both complete and utter fictions from an ignorance so willful as to rival autism. I hope to include in my screening series Fukusaka Kinji's magnificent portrait of geisha life in 1956 Osaka during two important political upheavals in post-war Japan. The film in Japanese was called Omocha ("Toy"), and in English, "The Geisha House."
JOHN SANDIDGE KZSC SHOW THURSDAY. Once again I'm having the pleasure and the challenge of hosting John Sandidge's "Politics Of Santa Cruz Reality" radio program. It'll be this Thursday night December 8 from 7-8:30p.m. on KZSC FM 88.1. For the first half my guests will be Don Stevens and John Aird talking about the many threats to our community resulting from UCSC's proposed expansion and what C.L.U.E. (Coalition for Limiting University Expansion) is doing about it. After that, film critic, lecturer, poet, author Morton Marcus and I will discuss films...pro and con.
EMAIL EMISSIONS. See what Sharon Korzep says about last week's Santa Cruz Parade photo and the buildings on Pacific Avenue. Note what Jan Mitchell has written in her Tri County Newspaper column on the future of Monterey County....and ours too? Lee Quarnstrom regales us with an update on highway 126 plus his love of Orange County, unedited!!! Scott Mac Clelland reveals us with a quote and yet another tip on Highway 1. Margie Kay relates the saga of land use in Monterey from her perspective in the Tri County News.
QUOTES. "We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world" -Studs Terkel. "I think it's wonderful that there is a movie that is so enduring and that I'm a part of it. I like that feeling, now. It used to be that I was a little "Oh, dear, an animal picture! Oh, my!" -Fay Wray. "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child" -Erma Bombeck.
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