Edith Bouvier and William Daniels with Dr. Muhammad (English translation) in The Guardian Video ___ Wiki about the Siege of Homs (with 2,052 opposition protesters killed – oppostion claim) AVAAZ IN SYRIA Paul Conroy doesn’t want to leave Marie’s body behind.
Marie Colvin (in Wikipedia) And her last report to the BBC, Channel 4, CNN and ITN News -from Homs (after 18 days of shelling) - completely burned and under rubble the next day - Her final report for the Sunday Times
Enregistrement/Recording: Apollinaire Lisant son Propre Poème Reading his Own Poem LE PONT MIRABEAU-THE MIRABEAU BRIDGE LE PONT MIRABEAU Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine Et nos amours Faut-il qu’il m’en souvienne La joie venait toujours après la peine Vienne la nuit sonne l’heure Les jours s’en vont je demeure Les mains dans les mains [...]
NPR’s Science Friday (Sci-Fi BE is a great app) Be Here Now: Meditation For The Body And Brain An interview w. “Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World” author Mark Williams, an Oxford University clinical psychologist + The Oxford Mindfulness Center & The book’s blog Combating Depression With Meditatio […]
At Webster University Feb. 17, 18 & 19 – 7:30 p.m. My review: Highly celebrated by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Susan Sontag, cinema’s current Homo Hungaricus, Béla Tarr is famous for the rarely screened films “Sátántangó” and “Werckmeister Harmonies.” Jancsó’s long takes and Olmi’s details, here with echoes of Melvill […]
Nathalie Zajde dessine le portrait d’une vingtaine de ces enfants cachés, anonymes ou célèbres, comme Boris Cyrulnik, Serge Klarsfeld, Saul Friedländer, André Glucksmann… Elle a aussi publié Enfants de survivants et Guérir de la Shoah.
To Javon Thompson A Promising Student of mine (at Carnegie Mellon) - shot and killed at age 18 - THE INTERRUPTERS played on Frontline (PBS) Tuesday February 13 This interview on Fresh Air (NPR) with its director, Steve James (of “Hoop Dreams” fame) and the great Ameena Matthews is a good introduction to the film. [...]
Information overflow in one major direction: what happens when everything implodes… I am in good company: not only my father, the photographer-artist Ervin Marton, but Joseph Kessel, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Nusch Éluard, all French Resistance fighters – but they did not make it back.