Watching ‘Indictment’ in the wake of the Penn State scandal
The HBO movie, “Indictment,” is 16 years old but it’s worth another look now in the wake of the scandal that has erupted at my alma mater, Penn State. The film was made five years after the three-year...
View Article‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered’: The lost art of letter writing
We’ve gained so much through the technological advances of recent years, but we’ve lost some wonderful things, too. Near the top of my list of sad losses is the end of letter writing brought about by...
View Article‘Happy Valley’: digging into the Penn State scandal
In his new documentary “Happy Valley,” Amir Bar-Lev takes a remarkably even-handed look at the scandal that erupted in 2011 over charges of pedophilia connected with the football program at Penn State....
View ArticleWhatever happened to Radley Metzger?
I know what you’re probably saying to yourself about the headline above — Who the hell is Radley Metzger? When I received an advance DVD of the long-forgotten 1972 soft core porn flick “Score” I asked...
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