Spanish director Almodovar’s 2019 film “Pain and Glory” could be autobiographical about the life of a gay movie director growing up in rural Spain and then experiencing first love in Madrid. What hit me hard was the vibrant interior colors; orange, red, purple and green. Very Mediterranean. It’s a tonic for the pandemic grey day winter blues.
CINDERELLA. It’s Christmas Eve, a time honored tradition where I watch America’s cutest couple — Eddie and Debbie — in RKOScope’s “Bundle of Joy,” a lovely Cinderella story for the holiday. Our Debbie, a newly minted mom, has been fired from her department store job but is saved by the handsome prince, Eddie, who’s the son of the boss. Several catchy tunes carry the story including a jitterbug contest with Debbie, 7 months pregnant then, flying through the air of the RKO soundstage.
Kudos to Tom Weber for his recent book, “Minneapolis, an Urban Biography,” with a chapter on local discrimination, which was infamous. White and Black neighbors didn’t “just happen,” but were the result of long standing processes carried out thousands of local residents and overseen “by exclusive leadership in the city.”
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Very nice.
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