Reading and Roaming
FILMS AND BOOKS. From a daring adventurer (Gertrude Bell) and a fictional newly minted doctor, Ally Moberley, to a grief stricken father and son and devastated parents to murder and Belgian emigres, I’ve covered a lot of ground in my recent filmgoing and reading. Much of it has been in international settings too: Persia and …
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WOMEN OF NOTE. By happenstance, not by planning, we’ve seen and heard about some notable women in our recent film and theater-going adventures. Founder Thomas Sung’s legacy to his children, all daughters, was his bank, Abacus Bank. Three of them work there; one, Jill, as the CEO, which is both significant and important. Jane Jacobs was …
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MANHATTAN MUSINGS. It’s been a week for rainy weather, TV, a fine film, and re-visiting some favorite West Village restaurants. After what seems like months of no rain in Florida, we are getting re-acquainted with the wet. Toting umbrellas and slogging through the puddles, we endured or enjoyed, depending on your perspective, two solid …
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The Sarasota Film Festival continued. We saw several more films, two very intense, painful to watch, and one that was disappointing. We then sampled the offerings at Beulah, another restaurant new to us. FLICS Clash. This Egyptian film covers one day and night in 2013 and a group of individuals involved in one of the many …
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