By: Mary Fran Bontempo There's no way four raggedy, skinny men can motor a little skiff next to a gigantic ocean liner, board it and take it, and its crew, captive. As far as movie scripts go, it's an unbelievable plot line. But incredible as it may seem, this was no movie script, at least until it was turned into one for the film, Captain Phillips, in theaters now. Captain Phillips relays the [...]
By: Mary Fran Bontempo To hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. So, rats don’t much like rice cakes, but apparently, they love Oreos. In a study conducted by neurology professor, Joseph Schroeder, and his students at Connecticut College, results confirmed that when given a choice between a rice cake and an Oreo, rats will go for the Oreo every time. Um, duh. I’m no neurologist, but I [...]
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By: Mary Fran Bontempo If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the exhibit at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia is worth a million of them. Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs, running from October 11th through December 31, 2013, features "the most comprehensive exhibition of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever assembled." With 153 photographs on display, it's simply stunning in its effectiveness in portraying the human condition in [...]
By: Mary Fran Bontempo To hear an audio version of this post, click the play arrow below. What a dignified way to call people a bunch of jackasses. Over the past few weeks, U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black has increasingly called the knuckleheads in Congress to task for their hubris, arrogance and downright stupidity, during the one minute he gets to address the Senate at every session. And he's done it all while [...]
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By: Mary Fran Bontempo Think Cast Away but in outer space and crammed into real time. Gravity, the widely-heralded space disaster movie starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney is, at its most basic, a survival film, a la the Tom Hanks desert island movie from 2000. (Hard to believe Cast Away is thirteen years old.) The primary difference, that Gravity takes place over an actual ninety minute time frame, as opposed to the [...]
