April 25, 2020 View this in advance of the HBO airing of Bad Education For a real eye opener go view and listen to Coach Mike Bayer’s podcast before viewing the movie. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/exclusive-frank-tassone-true-story-behind-hbos-bad/id1497576248?i=1000472153052 Thanks to COVID-19, Bad Education is getting hyper-press coverage from Newsday to Esquire to the New York Times to CNN, etc. The …
The recently released HBO trailer of Bad Education (viewable on youtube.com) paralleled by a VitalThrills.com review of the promotional material by Mirke Parlevliet (April 7, 2020) demands a response. At the request of the community, I present a counterpoint to this upcoming movie. Let’s start by dispelling some misperceptions presented in both mediums. Parlevliet categorizes …
I found myself on the road again heading south to my adopted home Key West. I am dictating to the iPhone dangling from the dashboard, and the transcription spews out in fits and spurts, assisted by the omnipotent autocorrect. If our ability to communicate is not garbled enough as it is through direct contact (more about …
Are you looking for a journey through lilting language and lush landscapes of the mind? Janette Byron Stone’s Please Write brings a new perspective to the Vietnam War through the distant eyes of a young woman’s coming of age. For America, Nam was a war that took place on the other side of the world; …
To continue our discussion of the blog posting, Blog #2 The Incoming Tide, regarding the upcoming film written by a Roslyn High School graduate, the film entitled “Bad Education” (a very poorly thought out sobriquet, epithet, which is not only a rip off of an English television series from 2012-2014, but also casts an aspersion …