Tag Archives: WILLEM DAFOE

The Outrage of Christ 2013

April 19, 2025 – 6:15 am

< THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST by Nikos Kazantzakis was a revelation for a young Catholic boy living on the South Shore of Boston in 1967. I found the book in our town library next to his successful novel ZORBA THE GREEK. The blurb on the dust cover shockingly declared that Kazantzakis had written this […]

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THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN NORTHERN MAINE – 2010 – by Peter Nolan Smith

February 2, 2025 – 12:26 pm

Scientists first warned the world about global warming with an 1975 article published in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. ‘Inadvertent climate modification’ sounded like gobbledygook to the common man, who was more terrified by the possibility of a ‘nuclear winter’ produced by an atomic bomb exchange between the USA and USSR. American oil producers pooh-bayed the National Academy […]

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Acting Advice 102

January 25, 2025 – 11:53 am

Last week I was hired to play a bar pool player in LATE FAME, a movie created from Arthur Schnitlizer’s 1894 novella about a forgotten Vienese poet discovered by the young. the script was well-carved for the leafing man, Willem Dafoe, who had said, “This is a story about your recent life.” Sort of true. […]

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January 15 1987 – Journal

July 15, 2024 – 1:05 pm

PLATOON has been a bigger hit than Willem Dafoe thought its completion and the film has garnered nominations for Director Oliver Stone and Willem as best supporting actor for his portrayal as the saintly Sergeant Elias. I’ve never been to war. I’ve fought on the streets many times. A man once shot at me in […]

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May 1, 1978 – Journal Entry

May 1, 2024 – 2:04 am

None of us at CBGBs were hippies, but some of us liked ice hockey. Last night the New York Islanders were knocked out of the Stanley playoffs by the Toronto Maple Leafs. Tomorrow the semi-finals of the Stanley Cup begin with the Bruins versus the Flyers and the fucking Habs against the Maple Leafs. And […]

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