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Soylent Green: “How Did We Come to This?”

Soylent Green: “How Did We Come to This?”

Directed by: Richard Fleischer Released: April 1973 Cast: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Joseph Cotton, Edward G. Robinson as Solomon Roth. As we sit here, in 2024, society is in rough shape. The gap between the wealthy and poor is ever increasing, homelessness is at an all-time high, governments and politicians are more interested in their own personal gain over the need of the people they were elected to serve, the gap between government and…

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The Strange Case of Joe Patroni: Part One

The Strange Case of Joe Patroni: Part One

When Arthur Hailey’s novel Airport was published in 1968, the literary world was introduced to TWA maintenance chief Joe Patroni, a no-nonsense, cigar chomping trouble-shooter operating out of Chicago’s fictional Lincoln International Airport. In the novel, Patroni races the clock to remove an Aero-Mexico Boeing 707, that is mired in snow and mud, blocking a crucial runway, before another crippled 707 can make an emergency landing on the same runway. Set during a massive snowstorm, Airport unfolds over an 8-hour…

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The Ten Commandments: Dathan, the Gangster of Goshen

The Ten Commandments: Dathan, the Gangster of Goshen

Released: 1956 Dir.: Cecil B. DeMille Dathan (Edward G. Robinson) was a small-time punk from Goshen who dreamed of being a big shot. As Hebrew overseer of the slaves of Goshen, he’d rat out his own mother to get in good with Pharaoh. Baka, the Master Builder (Vincent Price) was his steppingstone to the top of the pyramid of success and power, where the air was always balmy. Dathan was a snitch and a toady. But, not for long. Baka…

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