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The Ukrainian émigré Alexander Voloshin arrived in Los Angeles a year before Henri Coulette was born in the city on November 17, 1927. For much of the next three decades, until Voloshin’s death in 1960, the two men shared the same terrain, and it’s very likely that the young Coulette saw a good deal of […]
Simply Human: Henri Coulette and Alexander Voloshin
A Lacanian reading of Marty Supreme reveals a film structured by obsessional desire, maternal enigma, paternal absence, and the fantasy of total satisfaction. Marty’s pursuit of table-tennis supremacy becomes an Oedipal drama of deferral, humiliation, and lack, culminating in a fragile symbolic reorientation before the child he can no longer disavow.
Marty Supreme (2026): Film Analysis
At the conclusion of the recent three‑part Channel 4 documentary ‘The Tony Blair Story’, its subject stares into the camera for several awkward seconds before delivering a peculiar afterthought: “Also… very important to understand about me: I’m not into psychoanalysis. Right? I think there’s far too much of it, I think people spend far too […]
Tony Blair and the Subject of Psychoanalysis
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The Old Stoic – Emily Bronte
The Old StoicRiches I hold in light esteem,And Love I laugh to scorn;And lust of fame was but a dream,That vanished with the morn:And if I pray, the only prayerThat moves my lips for meIs, “Leave the heart that now I bear,And give me liberty!”Yes, as my swift days near their goal:’Tis all that I […]
The Old Stoic – Emily Bronte
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Hotel Budapest
January 24 was the birthday of Hedwig “Vicki” Baum (1888-1960). The Viennese-born writer is not widely known by name in the U.S. though it ought to be: her name is on over a dozen Hollywood movies, the biggest success of which was MGM’s smash 1932 adaptation of Grand Hotel, along with many remakes and sequels. […]
Vicki Baum: “Grand Hotel” and Beyond
Hey all! I’m speaking about a relationship model that is most common associated with heterosexual couples. BUT BUT BUT here’s the real truth… It’s a relationship model for any kind of relationship when there is an imbalance of power. And Hollywood can claim that it wants strong women all it wants EXCEPT it released that […]
An Old Relationship Model is awful with Spoilers
Anthony Hopkins proves that spoken English is a disciplined music. By honoring syntax, meter, and pause, he makes complex writing audible, precise, and alive. His performances teach that clarity comes from structure, emotion from grammar, and authority from restraint—English realized, not approximated, through decades of stage and screen mastery alone.
Birth of Anthony Hopkins (1937– ) – The Actor Who Taught English How to Be Spoken with Absolute Precision
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