The War on Drugs, its casualties, and its collateral damage.

 

 

The King’s Speech is well acted, (characteristically by Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth, who won the Oscar he should have won for A Single Man) and decently directed by Tom Hooper, though I still feel David Fincher and Christopher Nolan were ignored for their work in The Social Network and Inception, respectively. Overall, the film is touching […]

 

 

  Back when news leaked out of Pennsylvania’s Happy Valley that an assistant college football coach had been accused of raping/abusing a number of prepubescent boys, the world began to re-imagine the mythology of Joe Paterno. Surely he was not responsible for such an atrocity, some said. What a hypocrite, others cried. And then there were those […]