Parenting in a Celebrity-Drive Society.
If you’ve had ambivalent feelings about Marilyn Monroe’s iconic status in our celebrity-driven society, then My Week with Marilyn will cement them one way or the other; you’ll either understand her much-publicized crumbling personality, or you will develop even more contradictory emotions about the real person behind the blond bombshell. My Week with Marilyn directed [...]
Our college-bound journey has been cleared for takeoff. I am not going anywhere, though I wish this trip really included travel to a far, exotic place. Alas, this voyage is one we’ve been planning for a while and includes more emotional baggage than I care to pack so soon. We started working on this itinerary [...]
The film “Race to Nowhere“ tackles the topic of over-scheduled, stressed out school-age children and their parents eager to secure a spot not only in a college, but a 'good' college. We need some balance. The scale is tipping more and more in one direction, and “Race” is the counterbalance demonstrating the need to re-center [...]
A Duke University 2010 graduate spent quite a bit of time putting together a 42 page Power Point presentation containing detailed information about several of the school's athletes complete with graphs, names, places…and their sizes (not talking about shoes, though). Her project's title: “An education beyond the classroom: excelling in the realm of horizontal academics”. Clever title. Not so clever author.
One of my all-time favorite movies is “Fever Pitch” with Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon. My family can totally relate to Ben, the main character in this film about baseball, and his obsession with the Red Sox because we were on the same boat but with a different team — we were ardent San Diego Padres fans.
