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October 12, 2022With the dust almost settled on the 1.5 billion dollars in revenue from “Top Gun: Maverick,” perhaps there is air enough left in the room to appreciate another fine film...
July 14, 2022When Isabella Bird, a lone, 42-year-old Englishwoman, traveled by train from San Francisco into the Sierras in the late summer of 1873, she sat with the miners and loggers and...
July 13, 2022Many years ago, when Roger Ebert reported John Wayne’s comment about the great movie “High Noon,” I was surprised. “What a piece of you-know-what that was,” Wayne said....
