Perspectives from a Professor
I’m itching to see Won’t You Be My Neighbor.
Unfortunately, my only trip to the movies this week was to celebrate a friend’s birthday, and she had promised her husband that she’d see Won’t You Be My Neighbor with him.
Sooooooo…we ended up at Always at the Carlyle. It’s not a particularly well-made documentary, more of a string of interviews with (mostly) famous people talking about what makes the Manhattan hotel special.
I just finished watching the first episode of Sasha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime series Who Is America? and laughed until it became too horrifying.
The premise is familiar. Cohen assumes various characters so that he can interview people without tipping them off that they are part of a comedy sketch.
Insights are few, but entertainment can be rich.
At least, that’s the case until one sketch leads to a variety of U.S. lawmakers advocating that children (even toddlers!) be trained to use guns.
I’ve just returned from a week in a half in Ethiopia–mainly the indescribably beautiful Simien Mountains–much of it “off the grid.”
