FRONTLINE "Storm Over Everest"
For me, “base camp” is the spot where we park our Volvo, pitch our two-room tent and roast marshmallows over an open fire. The only sherpas involved are me and my husband, who often end up carrying our kids’ day packs back from strolls to “the summit,” no matter what promises were made when we set out.
Everest, it is not.
AMERICAN MASTERS "Marvin Gaye: What's Going On"
by Joe Pagetta, joepagetta.com
At the recent Nashville Film Festival, I had the pleasure of meeting and spending time with songwriter and producer Dennis Lambert. Lambert was in town for the screening of “Of All the Things,” a documentary directed by his son Jody, about Dennis’s unlikely 2007 tour of the Philippines. Among his many contributions to popular music, Lambert co-wrote with the Commodores’ Clyde Orange the band’s 1984 hit “Nightshift.”
The Complete Jane Austen "Sense and Sensibility" by Laurie Viera Rigler
by Laurie Viera Rigler, janeaustenaddict.com
Imagine my delight when PBS asked me to blog about the new Sense and Sensibility film with a screenplay by Andrew Davies, he of the famous Colin Firth-in-a-wet-shirt scene from the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice. (I don’t really get all the fuss about the wet shirt, being far more enamored of the “I shall conquer this” fencing scene, but that’s beside the point.)
