Category: Essays
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Life Itself is a story of success wrestled from a life of obscurity
Life Itself – 2014 Director Steve James Featuring Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Ava DuVernay, Gregory Nava, Marlene Iglitzen, Errol Morris, A.O. Scott, Richard Corliss, Ramin Bahrani Screenplay based upon Life Itself by Roger Ebert There is a scene in Life Itself where we see Roger Ebert taking a walk during a vacation with one of his step-grandchildren,…
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I Don’t Have A Vote: 86th Oscars…feel the excitement
The 86th Annual Oscars – Try to stay awake My excitement for the Oscars has never been more quaint. I enjoy the spectacle, but more often than not find myself astounded at who is nominated (Gravity? Really? For anything more than technical?) and who is not (The Great Gatsby? Really? For only technical?). This year…
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Special Guest WeMissE’s 2014 Oscar picks
Note from CoolPapaE: My dear friend Steve, aka WeMissE is the only person I know that is a bigger Cinephile than I am. He spends considerable time each year watching the nominated films with his son, along with keeping his own study of one of the greats in Alfred Hitch-blog. This year I am fortunate…
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Pet Shop Boys: What have I?
Let’s face it, I am not the key demographic for the Pet Shop Boys. And by that I mean, I am not at all into synth dance music. I would also mention that I am not a homosexual, but that is not always integral in listening or appreciating what Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have…
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There was a Man: Cool Papa E’s Tribute to Roger Ebert
There was a time when, as a teenager, I was relegated to spending my summer afternoons at home. Not old enough to drive and without siblings, relatives or anyone else around to be driven by, I would do my chores in the morning and, on the hottest days, sit inside the house in the afternoon. In Kent, a…
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I Don’t Have A Vote: Cool Papa E thinks the 85th Oscars Suck
I have to admit it. Once I found out it wasn’t happening, I wasn’t interested, The list of nominees arrived on January 10 and Samuel L. Jackson’s name was not among them. There is no good reason for it, either. Within the list of nominees, even the guy from his own movie, Christoph Waltz, didn’t…
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Ebert Does It Better: 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 140,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that…
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CPE’s Reviews – 2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 92,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see…
Ebert Did It Better: Gasbag Reviews 