by Minter Dial | Aug 24, 2012 | Entertainment, WWII
This week in 1938 (August 22), Hollywood’s most famous dancing duo, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, were featured on the cover of Life magazine. With the US still in the grips of the Great Depression and with war heating up in Europe, Astaire and Rogers were...
by Minter Dial | Aug 8, 2012 | Entertainment, Sports, Travel
We will soon be able to evaluate the truth — at least half of it — behind the statement that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. Here are two marvelous assets about the extraordinary voyage of Curiosity to the planet Mars. Who would have thought...
by Minter Dial | Jan 29, 2012 | Entertainment, Travel
The underground journey, the curves, the souvenir of the song “Winding my way down on…”, and a little Dial [Digital Marketing] 101. A little too close to home not to post on the blog. Still, I’m not sure why Dial 101 should lead to the...
by Minter Dial | Jan 4, 2012 | Entertainment
Not the film of all time To ring in the new year, we went to see the new Martin Scorsese film, Hugo, based on the book, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick. This 2 hour+ film did not seduce me on the merits of the direction, plot or acting. I thought of it...
by Minter Dial | Nov 25, 2011 | Entertainment
What if the war went wrong? I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the premiere of Resistance, a new film with Michael Sheen and Andrea Riseborough, directed by Amit Gupta and based on the novel, Resistance by Owen Sheers. The story is fictional and is based on...
by Minter Dial | Jul 28, 2011 | Entertainment
The Practically Perfect Play Mary Poppins, the musical, is on tour — currently at the New Amsterdam theater at 42nd Street on Broadway — where I went with the family last week. It is a show I strongly recommend, providing you see the lead played by the...
