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INCEPTION / movie

July 22, 2010 – 8:03 pm

The summer offering from Hollywood had been bleak, so the movie public responded to last weekend’s release of INCEPTION with smash box office numbers. Day 1 Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi film grossed over $21 million. The weekend total was almost $100 million,as word of mouth filled 6000-plus theaters across the continent. Sunday night AP’s wife gave […]

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Bike Guy by Scott Taylor

July 6, 2010 – 5:01 pm

Scott’s “Bike Guy” has been installed on the corner of Bedford and 12th street in McCarren Park, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I attended the opening last week. Mark Benecke of Studio 54 fame was the big name for the showing. A few more faces from the age of heroes and heroines were there. Scott asked for me […]

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Crisis in Sex Tourism

June 13, 2010 – 12:41 pm

My arrival in Bangkok coincided with the military crackdown on the anti-government protesters. M-16s versus firecrackers and slingshots. The death toll was close to 100and the wounded over a thousand. A nationwide curfew closed the bars of Patpong, Nana Plaza, and Soi Cowboy. Walking Street in Pattaya was dead. Only the Full Moon Bar in […]

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THE DAYBREAKERS

January 31, 2010 – 10:50 am

Hollywood has embraced the philosophy of 2012 and the studios have produced a series of apocalyptic films portraying the end of the world through natural disasters, zombie infestation, or plague. We can’t blame nature, God, or Commie Martians for our position at the brink of extermination, for as Pogo said so eloquently in his cartoon […]

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A VERY BAD MAN by Peter Nolan Smith

August 30, 2009 – 1:43 pm

While awaiting my trial in Thailand, my good friend promised a ‘soft landing’ back to New York. The architect kept his promise and provided me a room and a little food in his Fort Greene brownstone. Sleeping on a sofa was never a permanent option and at the summer’s end I moved out of my […]

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