President Obama will address the nation from the Oval Office tomorrow (Tuesday) following a two-day visit to the Gulf region (Mississippi, Alabama, Florida). The trip to the Gulf will be the President’s fourth since the tragic BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
I’m always tickled when parents freak out over a child’s decision to pursue acting in college. For the straight and narrow parent, it’s the “throwing good money after bad money” call. Personally, most of the serious actors I’ve known my lifetime were intelligent, insightful, and committed. The challenge was the ability to make a living [...]
Transcript available here. This week the President made his third trip to the Louisiana coast in lieu of a trip to Australia and Indonesia, to check on the lack of progress of BP’s next move on capping the oil pipe as well as the lack of confidence in the administration’s ability to bring BP to [...]
For Filmmakers… NEH FUNDING INITIATIVE – BRIDGING CULTURES THROUGH FILM: INTERNATIONAL TOPICS – CALL FOR ENTRIES Deadline: July 28, 2010 (receipt deadline); Notification of awards will be in December 2010. Bridging Cultures films will spark Americans’ engagement with the wider world through the exploration of countries and cultures outside of the United States, and/or across [...]
SPIKE LEE’S NEXT REQUIEM After visiting New Orleans for the first time in 2007, I bought my own DVD copy of “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts,” Spike Lee’s HBO documentary about the slow emergency and recovery response to the Katrina tragedy. The documentary was one of the few voices at the [...]
This is the live feed from BP of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. They’ve restarted the “top kill” process of shooting heavy drilling mud into the hole to essentially “plug it up.” The video source and ticker is from PBS’s Newshour. The live feed was ordered by the U.S. Government. What a [...]
New Orleans is hot again. I’m not talking about the impeding and insufferable summer heat that is about to descend in 2 or so months, or the high the city’s still riding out from the Saints superbowl win. Shortly after the pilot, HBO greenlighted a second season of Treme (from the makers of “The Wire). [...]
The first news story I heard this morning was the defusing of an unsophisticated car bomb in New York city’s Time Square. The vehicle was a Nissan SUV, and the police were alerted by a street vendor who noticed smoke coming from the car. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the [...]
The Gulf Coast has been hit with the worst oil spill it has had in the region’s entire history — and event about to exceed the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska. When President Obama announced that he was opening up some coastal areas to off-shore drilling, my initial reaction was “Are you kidding?” I love [...]
Earth Day turns 40 April 22nd. The big climate rally on the National Mall is April 25th here in DC. But tonight on PBS, The American Experience presents Earth Days.
