by Minter Dial | Apr 5, 2013 | Entertainment, Minter Dialogue, Podcast, WWII
Jan Thompson, Professor of Radio-Television at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is the producer of a new feature-length documentary, “Never The Same: The Prisoner of War Experience,” which is going to premiere this Saturday (April 6) in Chicago, at the Gene...
by Minter Dial | Dec 3, 2012 | Entertainment
The other day, while walking through the chic 7th arrondissement of Paris, I came across James Bond’s real life car… We all know that Bond must live in Monaco, no? Here is a photo of it. Ok, it’s possibly not Bond’s car, because it is no Aston...
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...