Table and Teaser
Preview of March’s articles with a table of February’s contents
Last month, I wrote about my first airplane flight—as well as later flights, including the time I was listed on the passenger manifest of TWA flight 800, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean—in an article posted on the day of the Boeing 747’s final delivery to Atlas Air. Paying subscribers can read the whole essay here (browse additional paid subscriber benefits, including the opportunity to have me coach your writing, below).
Mine’s a tribute to the machine which marks the beginning of what was once referred to—and often maligned—as the Jet Age.
Most February articles review movies centered upon main characters that go rogue—criminals portrayed by Clint Eastwood and Denzel Washington, a skeptical writer played by Ewan McGregor and the lonesome war veteran and LA businessman played by Jack Lemmon in an Oscar-winning role—as well as obituaries for two entertainers who endured for decades. This month, Autonomia celebrated Sidney Poitier’s birthday all month, too, with three film reviews.
Table of February contents
This month’s contents include:
Obituary for actress Raquel Welch (including her thoughts on meeting Ayn Rand).
Review of Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer starring Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall and Ewan McGregor as an “explication of the death of art.”
An obituary and remembrance of melodic composer Burt Bacharach.
Analysis of a new Whitney Houston-themed film, posted the day she died in 2012.
The first in a new series of articles for the paid subscriber on Clint Eastwood movies; a review of Absolute Power, based on the novel by David Baldacci.
Three free-to-read reviews of movies—Uptown Saturday Night with Bill Cosby, director Peter Bogdanovich’s To Sir, With Love II and Little Nikita with River Phoenix—starring Sidney Poitier to honor his February 20th birthday,
A 50th anniversary review of John Avildsen’s adaptation of Save the Tiger.
An article examining a national health care propaganda film, John Q, with Denzel Washington, for the movie’s 21st anniversary.
Teaser of March’s articles
Articles next month may include a surprise or two. I’ve been working on ideas I’m planning to introduce in March. A new subscription model is in the works. Stand by for details, updates and new works in progress.
In the meantime, you can read new book, television and travel stories in March. The 80th anniversary of Casablanca—a PBS miniseries about the Roman Empire—free speech and Netflix’s new cinematic adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1928 novel All Quiet on the Western Front are among selected topics. The new series about Clint Eastwood movies continues for paid subscribers. Other artists to be featured this year include Liza Minnelli and Sylvester Stallone.
Miniatures—their diorama origins, history, application and continuing interest—will be prominently featured in next month’s stories. I handcrafted historical dioramas as a boy. Among the depictions were America’s first Thanksgiving, the French and Indian War and the Southwestern U.S. Pueblo Indian tribe. Besides baseball cards, I collected miniature motor vehicles, as well as hand-painted metal soldiers, artillery and military vehicles. I spread them out on flat surfaces to recreate historical and fictional scenes. A publication in Pittsburgh asked me to write about the city’s most celebrated display of miniature skyscrapers, trains, buildings, lands and villages. Stand by for details.
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