News Media: Shepard Smith to Leave CNBC

He will leave CNBC as it focuses more intently on its core product: information tailored for viewers interested in markets and personal finance.

Maltese Falcon, The: Bogart’s Starring Role–Definition

The Maltese Falcon: Bogart’s Starring Role–definition, attributes The Maltese Falcon It was as private eye Sam Spade that Bogart at last found a part that really used his special qualities, including his unique voice and delivery, and the basic ambiguity about his moral position. Though he ended up as hero, he did not always like […]

Movie Stars: Approach, Theory, Bibli0, Basinger, Jeremy Butler’s Star Texts (Bogart)

Jeanine Basinger, The Star Machine The system of star making; the machine from the late 1920s to 1960. The practical business of manfacturng illusions How the machine worked? The business of making commodities out of real-living individuals Stars as manufactured commodi. The goal was to find  potential stars, create, shape and polish them and then […]

My Mind and Me: Selena Gomez’ Documentary–I Would Consider Myself the Luckiest Girl if I Could Help Just One Person

The Apple TV+ film — whose world premiere served as opening night of Los Angeles’ AFI Fest — follows six years of Selena Gomez’s life, spanning from the 2016 cancellation of her Revival tour (due to anxiety and depression) to her lupus and mental health struggles.

81/2 (1963): Fellini’s Narrative Structure, Ending (Closure)

One of the most admired movies, defined by multi-layered structure and baroque-kind plot. It’s constantly shifting levels of consciousness and reality, without warning the viewers. There’s complex fusion of fantasies, dreams, nightmares, and flashbacks, yet the movie is never messy or confusing. There’s been a discussion of the alternate endings of Fellini’s masterpiece, 81/2, the […]