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Los Angeles Emmy Winner
ATAS Commercials Internship Scholarship Winner
Tongal top 25 of 50,000 Ideationist
Dementia Caregiver for a Parent
Presently an Extrapreneur who provides Product Enhancement ideas to Companies on their existing product lines.
Reviews
Return to Peyton Place (1961)
Disappointed so many original cast members were not in the sequel.
Who would have thought when both Peyton Place and the sequel were made that one day people might watch them back to back. If the Producers had considered the two films being shown back to back in the future, they would have begged, borrowed and stolen to keep the original cast intact. I wonder if I will be forced to leave a rating since I would have to re-watch it all the way through with an open mind, something hard to do after immediately seeing the original. Turns out my review is too short. However, one thing that did drive me crazy in a not good way about the original is the sound mix aggressively favored the orchestral score during dialogue scenes.
The Rifleman: The Boarding House (1959)
A lesson on the evils of classism.
The Boarding House features a powerful scene regarding the evils of classism. The scene involves a dinner gathering in which one person is both extremely proud of their own lineage while simultaneously being hideously spiteful of another person who has remade themselves into a model citizen.
The scene is a riveting reminder that classism may be the root cause of other societal ills that fester to this day.
Lucky Louie: Get Out (2006)
One of the best Woman to Young Woman Dialogue Scenes you will ever see.
Lucky Louie Episode, "Get Out" should have been nominated for an Emmy. One of the most memorable, Female Power, Woman to Young Woman dialogue scenes between Pamela Adlon and Emma Stone you will ever see on Television. I suspect that because neither character pulled out a gun at any point and there was no chase scene that I can recall their interaction will probably never garner the respect it deserves.
Mel-O-Toons (1960)
Philosophical Messages for young kids.
The messages in Mel-O-Toons may have screwed my life up, but probably in a good way. At the tender age of 4 and 5 years I was exposed to messages of how working together could bring back missing sound to the barnyard animals, how the one who starts fastest does not not always win the race, how a small band of soldiers and a gift could defeat a much larger army, and then there was the explosive classical music to contend with. I pity the youngster like myself that were exposed to Mel-O-Toons but not Disney because if one took to heart the philosophically powerful messages of Mel-O-Toons at a tender age but were unaware of Disney's much larger influence on childhood cartoons it could lead to the mistaken belief that others of their age had been Mel-O-Tooned when they had actually been Disnified.
Taxi: What Price Bobby? (1980)
The final scene between Bobby and his agent is an all time classic.
I think one of the most memorable scenes ever written and acted for a television show is the final scene between Bobby (Jeff Conaway) and his Agent, (Susan Sullivan).
Bobby mistakenly believes it is his decision and his decision alone deciding whether or not he should continue to carry on his affair with his new agent, or just keep their relationship on a business only level and end the romance.
In a moment of comedic cold tension, both have an opposite take on which is more important, sex or business, when it comes to romance versus Bobby's career.
The tension keeps building and as Bobby's turmoil over the possible loss of his "career building agent" turned "woman scorned", he turns into Captain High Pants. It's as if Bobby's body posture has aged 30 years in an instant and this recently proud young stud actor suddenly sports pants that go up to his chest. (not to worry, in the next scene Bobby is back to his dapper self in a pair body hugging jeans).
What Bobby finally does at the end of his encounter with his former agent is both sublimely ridiculous, and amazingly pragmatic.
The final minute features two distinct catch lines that are so memorable you may find yourself reciting them from time to time.
Secretary (2002)
One if by hand, Two if by Knee
This movie could lead to ENDLESS debates about all kinds of issues related to men and women. SO MANY issues, so many issues, you could construct a college class from this one movie alone and delve into a different issue each and every week.
This movie is NOT ABOUT SADOMASOCHISM, it's about everything else.