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I am a professor of English and Drama at two wonderful universities in CT - Eastern Connecticut State University and the University of Hartford. My MFA in Playwriting and Acting was earned at Ohio University, the best university I ever attended. I am a writer of plays, fiction, creative non-fiction, and songs. I am working on various creative projects while doing a full teaching load. I take a lot… Read moreI am a professor of English and Drama at two wonderful universities in CT - Eastern Connecticut State University and the University of Hartford. My MFA in Playwriting and Acting was earned at Ohio University, the best university I ever attended. I am a writer of plays, fiction, creative non-fiction, and songs. I am working on various creative projects while doing a full teaching load. I take a lot of time in writing my reviews and enjoy the process of writing them.
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Her best work is still with The Story - and some of those songs, by turns, funny, passionate, yearning, bittersweet, deserve repeated listenings. This CD? Initially, it seems pleasant, even diverting. But after repeated listenings, you hear the gears going around, and you realize nothing is fresh here, including the tired covers, a tip-off that Brooke had nothing to say here, only a CD to put out. And, yes, as one reviewer, asked, "where is the passion?" But isn't that true of so much of today's music? Where's the joy? Where's the REAL love? Those songs, those genres, those artists, are few, and they come from a better, more passionate, more engaged era. This is puny stuff… Read more
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There is a theme developing in these reviews: of all the great folk/pop singer/songwriters, including Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Dan Fogelberg, Jackson Browne, and go ahead and add to this list, there is one man who stands out from the pack: Gordon Lightfoot. This album, along with all the others, contain songs not well-known to the public, and yet they serve to demonstrate the extraordinary range and depth of Lightfoot's songwriting, playing, and arrangements. You listen to something like "The List," just one of a number of terrific songs on "Sundown," and you hear an arrangement that is as fresh and modern and up to date as… Read more
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Giant DVD ~ Elizabeth Taylor
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Please heed the one brave reviewer who also found this DVD of GIANT a disgrace - and it is. Don't be mislead! The sound quality is terrible. The colors are, in some scenes, almost completely washed out, which make the images appear as if they were once in black and white and then colorized. In several scenes, you can actually see flashes of lines, as if the print was lifted off a television screen. There was NO attempt to upgrade, enhance or preserve this wonderful, classic film. The extras? Nothing special. Certainly not worth the cost of buying this terrible DVD expecting a top grade enhancement and then finding that you have something that wouldn't even be shown on TCM! My… Read more
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