Monday, May 23, 2016

Donald Trump on "Citizen Kane"



In this video Donald Trump discusses his thoughts on the classic film Citizen Kane, in light of his own personal experiences of being wealthy.

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Saturday, May 21, 2016

The Gospel According to Superheroes (Stan Lee)



I recently read a book titled The Gospel According to Superheroes: Religion and Pop Culture by B. J. Oropeza that I found interesting enough to recommend. To find out more about the book, I have reproduced the Foreword below by Stan Lee:

Know something? There's no way to predict how mythology will get started. What has come to be known as the Marvel Mythology started quite by accident. Since you're a captive audience, I'd like to tell you about it.

Let me take you back to the early 1960's when I wrote the original scripts for what came to be known as the Marvel Universe of Superheroes. I must admit that attempting to create a mythology was the furthest thing from my mind at that time. I was just trying to write appealing stories about interesting characters with interesting powers. As you'd expect, all the heroes I created fought evil foes for the good of humankind. Each of them represented my feeling of what a superhero should be - a person who uses his power to protect good people from bad.

Friday, May 6, 2016

An Orthodox Easter Greeting from Tom Hanks (video)


Greek actor Theocharis Ioannides, who was in Los Angeles on Orthodox Easter (Pascha) Sunday, uploaded to his Instagram account a video of Tom Hanks on stage during a Greek Orthodox Easter celebration that afternoon, where he greets the audience by saying in Greek "Christos Anesti!" (Christ is Risen) and "Alithos Anesti!" (Truly He is Risen) to blues music.

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Movie: "The Pirate" a.k.a. "God Loves Caviar" (2012)


Release date: 2012
Running time: 1:42:01
Language: English
Actors: Sebastian Koch, Catherine Deneuve, John Cleese, Evgeny Stychkin
Director: Ioannis Smaragdis
Producer: Eleni Smaragdi

Monday, April 4, 2016

The Conversion of French Photographer Frère Jean (Gérard Gascuel) to Orthodoxy


March 22, 2011
Interfax

Photographer Gérard Gascuel who worked with Marcel Marceau and Salvador Dali and now is Hieromonk Gerasimos says he decided to become a monk after hearing an Athonite monk singing.

"I was 33 when the editor in chief of an influential Japanese magazine sent me to Greece to make a report about the life of Athonite monks," Father Gerasimos was quoted as saying by the Rossijskaya Gazeta daily on Tuesday.