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Ty Burr’s review of “The Fighter” appears in today’s Globe. He says Christian Bale as Dickie Ecklund and Melissa Leo as Mickey Ward’s mom are both outstanding, although he gives high marks to the rest of the cast. He also says that the film is “so good, so engrossing, for…
Read More »From Ward’s official website http://officialmickyward.com/biography Leaving “The Fighter” movie reviews for now, take a look as Ron Borges does in today’s Boston Herald at Micky Ward “the fighter” struggling to find himself back in 1991 and who then goes on to new heights in boxing by 2000: On Oct. 15,…
Read More »Prompted by Dick’s post about the Johnny Depp interview in Vanity Fair magazine, I’ll share this account of his visit in 1991. I spent the better part of a day and evening with him and John Sampas. I waited a long time before publishing anything about the experience because I was…
Read More »Tomorrow, December 8, marks 30 years since the death of John Lennon. Yoko Ono remembers the quiet hours in this piece from the NYTimes. In another NYT essay, Ray Davies of Kinks fame recalls the inspiration that John and The Beatles were for him.
Read More »Area veterans, elected officials and students from the Hellenic Academy gathered at the Hall of Flags of the Lowell Memorial Auditorium this morning for a remembrance ceremony on this, the 69th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The following video features the students from the Hellenic Academy singing…
Read More »The January 2011 edition of Vanity Fair is on the news stand. It’s not magazine I normally purchase, but one of our readers sent an email reporting that in the issue’s cover story which is an interview with actor Johnny Depp by rock and roll star Patti Smith, Depp mentions…
Read More »Tony Sampas photographs the former Saint Jean Baptiste Church, still for sale on Merrimack Street.
Read More »“From the low-lit fastnesses of my study, I looked solemnly at the newspaper headlines. On my desk, its brown pigeon-holes stuffed with ledger, manuscripts, sheet, inkwell, sentimental token . . . . on this desk of mine I lay the screaming visage of a Hearst tabloid—it said: JAPAN DECLARES WAR…
Read More »Read Shaughnessy’s giddy account of the Monday night game from boston.com. web photo courtesy of boston.com and Jim Davis, Globe
Read More »I spent $40 this morning to fill up with regular gas at about $3 per gallon at the XtraMart on Gorham Street, near the courthouse. Humorist Lewis Black might say, What the F#&*%! Did I miss a new oil embargo, or did China buy up all the crude last week for…
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