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Review of “Moneyball”
Evanston Roundtable, Oct. 11, 2011 There’s a key scene near the end of “Moneyball” when Oakland Athletics’ general manager Billy Beane (played with great energy and charm by Brad Pitt)
Review of “Hugo” and “The Artist”
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 5, 2012 Silent movies all but disappeared 80 years ago, replaced not by something better, but by something newer, the talkies. Now it seems we’re talked out.
Review of “Contagion”
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 27, 2011 Steven Soderbergh’s movie “Contagion” manages to do for global pandemics what porn does for sex: make it look phony. Not that there aren’t the requisite
Review of J. Edgar
Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 22, 2011 He built one of the nation’s most important law-enforcement agencies, routed the Bolsheviks and anarchists in the 1920s, jailed scores of gun-toting mobsters in the
Profile: Gene Bell, FAAM ‘Commissioner For Life,’ Has Helped Thousands of Kids
Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 27, 2011 In 1968, the City cut back its middle school athletic program, and in response a handful of African American community leaders formed an after-school sports
Profile of Guerra Freitas
Evanston RoundTable, January 19, 2012 He was born in war, suffered grievously during war, is even named for war. Now Guerra Freitas, who has lived in south Evanston since 1998,
1968 Democratic Convention: There’s a Riot Going On
This is a chapter from my memoir, called Remember Me, written about the relationship I had with my best friend. There’s a Riot Going On Returning from London in June
Review of Stephen King’s “11/22/63”
Evanston RoundTable, March 16, 2012 What is it about Kennedy assassination that continues to fascinate and haunt the national psyche? There was the shock of the event, the 9/11 of
Saturdays With Milton
Milton Preves was my viola teacher during the mid- to late 1990s. At some point during our relationship, realizing what a treasure he was to the international viola community, I