Upcoming Bolshoi Streaming Productions
By Norm Robins The Bolshoi Ballet and Opera will stream selections from their “Golden Collection” including some of their most
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Author: Norm Robins
Movies for Shut-ins—W.C. Fields and Me
~By Norm Robins~ There are many kinds of love in the world Love of a son for a mother Love
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Britain’s National Theater Streaming Live on YouTube
Beginning Thursday, April 2nd Britain’s National Theater will stream live and free on their YouTube channel. The first broadcast will be Richard Bean’s One Man Two Guvnors featuring a Tony Award-winning James Corden.
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Movies for Shut-ins Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell
Richard Jewell was a real-life bona fide hero. While working as a security guard he discovers a pipe bomb left in a knapsack larded with explosives and very hard masonry nails under a bench at the 1968 Atlanta Olympics. Calling in the cops and bringing in a U.S. Air Force bomb squad makes him a hero by even the most ordinary of measures. Only one or two people die in the subsequent explosion, depending on whose numbers you believe. But many more are injured, people whose lives might be lost but for Jewell’s presence of mind. Richard Jewell clears the periphery near the bomb including a tower housing journalists and camera crew despite the protests of the occupants.
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Sundays at the Bolshoi Ballet—Romeo and Juliette
This Sunday, March 29, 2020, the Bolshoi had planned to telecast the 2020 production of Romeo and Juliette from Moscow. But, like every other theater in God’s creation they will be dark. What to do? How to go on?
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Movies For Shut-ins Paddy Chayefsky’s The Americanization of Emily
On June 4, 1944, the largest amphibious assault in history was launched. Allied forces landed on five beaches of Normandy. They were from the U.S., Britain, Canada, Poland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway. It began with a 1200 plane assault. Then 160,000 troops landed from 5000 naval vessels. By August 1944, 2 million allied troops were in France. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky was one of them.
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Movies for Shut-ins Paddy Chayefsky’s The Hospital
Playwright Paddy Chayefsky was a complex man. Born in New York City in 1923, he served in World War II and was awarded a Purple Heart medal after he was wounded by a land mine near Aachen, Germany. Early on he fell in love with television as a medium. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Marty, specifically for TV. His male leads were vulnerable just like him, tortured just like him, and insecure just like him.
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Film Review Berthold Brecht’s Galileo
We have been turned into a nation of shut-ins. We have been given a time out by circumstances and sent to our rooms. Spring has been called off. Possibly summer, too. We are planning for the fall. What to do with our newfound and unwelcome free time?
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What The Great 1850s New York Horse Manure Problem Can Teach Us About The Great 2020 Coronavirus Problem.
This new virus sprang on us with lightning speed and devastating virulence. We learned about it despite the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to conceal it. Remember Dr. Li Wenliang, the 34-year-old doctor who warned his colleagues to suit up because this thing is dangerous. He was arrested and jailed for spreading rumors and disrupting the peace (or whatever they call it), both felonies. He died at age 34 in a Wuhan hospital. That’s communism. Kill people or pay any other price. Keep the narrative of happiness and tranquility and economic progress going because to do otherwise is to threaten their hold on power. Mercifully, with the WHO (World Health Organization) and the CDC (Center for Disease Control) breathing down their necks we are giving the Chinese Communist Party no choice but to give us good, valid data…finally.
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Maestro Kelly Kuo conducts the Reno Chamber Orchestra
Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, March 14 and 15th, Maestro Kelley Kuo will conduct the Reno Chamber Orchestra in what
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