Ball point pen on the morning newsprint Filmmaker Sidney Pollack passed away yesterday at his home in Pacific Palisades California. He was 73. Nominated 11 times for Academy Awards, Pollack won 7 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for the epic film Out Of Africa starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. Pollack wore many hats in his career as a filmmaker including those of director, writer, producer and even actor in films like Tootsie and Michael Clayton. ...
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Ball point pen on the morning newsprint Steven Rubenzer Speeking at the International Society for Political Psychology found of all the presidents, Hillary has the most in common with Richard Nixon "Both introverts, combative, conscientious, not impulsive, having lapses in judgment, lack of a high sense of moral responsibility, and willingness and ability to lie." Joanne Miller assistant professor of political science at the University of Michigan specializing in political psychology says, To cope, one "engages in interpretative strategies to deny you're going to lose. You make an external attribution for the failure. We're already seeing this with Hillary-she's blaming the media now more than she ever has before." Bruce Buchanan, professor of government at the University of Texas and an expert in presidential psychology also sees the parallels to Nixon. "the circle the wagon mentality ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint. (I did this drawing walking full stride between 34th Street and 16th Street) At 76 years old Ted Kennedy has an malignant tumor in the left parietal lobe of his brain. Although it can be treated , because it is aggressivly growing within the brain tissue and not matastasized, in almost all cases it is not curable. Members of both sides of the isle have come forward to praised the Senator for his abilities as a legislator. Ball point pen on the morning newsprint (done on the train) Tomorrow...The Beat Goes On, Part Three ...
Read MoreBall point pen on the morning newsprint As a rookie in 2006, Jon Lester won his first five major league starts pitching for the Boston Red Sox. He had a seven and two record when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a blood cancer that might have ended his career. Lester underwent four courses of chemotherapy, was pronounced cancer free, and went back to his normal life. Well,... in Jon's case, an exceptionally rare and gifted life. Medical breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer enabled Jon to continue pitching for the Boston Red Sox, appear in a World Series and yesterday he accomplished the greatest feat in baseball by pitching a no hitter. I can't cure cancer and I certainly can't throw a no hitter for a major league team. Some may even argue the merits of my draftsmanship, but here's something that I am doing. The City of Hope is hosting an event called Walk for Hope t ...
Read MoreBall point pen on paper napkin Robert Mondavi passed away yesterday in his home in Napa Valley. He was 94. My Grandfather Roibal was an amateur wine maker. He immigrated from Spain in the 1930's and settled in New Jersey. Visiting his home as a boy was what I imagined it would be like to go to Europe. Even though he lived in the city of Newark, his back yard was covered with trellises filled with ripening grapes. His cellar, where he made his wine, was a cool, damp place to escape the summer heat. The stone walls and cement floors, having absorbed the years of his toil, gave off the unmistakable oder of wine making. His equipment for mashing and grinding the grapes looked like it belonged in a medieval torture chamber, and large oak barrels in a line held the fruits of his labor. He would give us kids a sip from a tin cup that he had hanging on a nail. He'd wipe it out with a rag bef ...
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