Can You

"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" wonder Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Bob Bates, and Joe Dodge.

Conspiracy and Class Power

Dr. Michael Parenti from 30 years back.

Fresh as a daisy. . .

Mondo Coco

Here the sexiest cartoon character around talks to squirrels, becomes a tutor, an inspirational speaker and author, a reggae singer, an airplane pilot, a supermodel, a Japanese TV celebrity who becomes Prime Minister, and falls in love with a yeti in a mad episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Characters, April 2008.

Resnais

The word "great" is thrown around in the world of movie directors the way condescending smirks are thrown around among a Cohn Bros© movie audience. One of those who was truly great was Alain Resnais. David Walsh with a brilliant and complex appreciation.

One of Resnais's many short masterpieces, Guernica (1950).

Resnais II

His stunning short on the birth of French plastics, Song of Styrene (1958).

Ethel Waters

And Vincente Minnelli in his first direction. . .

The Anchor

 The beautiful Maria Zakharova tells us what's what.