While preparing, with Art Olivier, a unique article about 9/11, I again divert briefly into classic Hollywood. In early 2025, I wrote a post about the egregious discrimination that the 1951 Bible-era epic Quo Vadis received at the Academy Awards (0 wins out of 8 nominations) vs. 1959’s Ben
Guest Post by Patrick O’Carroll Preface by James Perloff More than 20 years ago, long before I embraced Eastern Orthodoxy, I was regularly attending a men’s Bible Study at a church in Winchester, Mass. After a while, something began bothering me. Jesus and His Apostles frequently quoted the Old Testament.
With two major serious posts in the works, I take a break for something lighter. You may need to click twice on the video below. Of possible related interest—my only live stand-up comedy routine, from 2009: https://jamesperloff.net/news/my-only-stand-up-comedy-routine/
It’s long been said that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Decades ago, my mother was visiting my sister and me in Boston. As my mother was a professional artist, as well as an instructor in art history at private schools, she wanted to visit the art galleries
After taking a respite for some very short posts, mostly about the Golden Age of Hollywood, I return to the more serious. Sorry, this is a long post. I don’t like long posts any more than anyone else, but to quote Margot Channing in All About Eve: I have been
Amazon’s publishing platform, KDP, is suddenly requiring authors and publishers to provide proof of identity. This is a short video about my recent encounter with it, and its meaning in a broader context. You may need to click the video twice to play it.
Some of my readers must be wondering why I’ve written three straight short posts concerning Hollywood’s older days. Don’t I know about the coming digital ID and currency, and the rest of the whole dangerous mess our world is facing? Am I playing a fiddle while Rome burns? Frankly, I’m
OK, when I call something a “gem,” I almost always add a caveat, “what’s a gem for me may not be for thee.” Most of my readers know I appreciate the moral entertainment of long ago to most of what’s produced today. I also realize that much of what I
Perhaps a better title for this post would have been “A Tale of Two Clint Eastwoods,” but I’m no Eastwood expert. I know he’s done quite a bit of directing as well as acting over recent decades, and I haven’t kept up with his work. That’s because I rarely watch
This post is a sequel to my “Debunking Myself” post, in which I explain why—based upon accumulated evidence—I abandoned the “no planes” theory of 9/11 and rescinded a theory I had proposed. (A significant number of revisions have since been made to that post.) However, many anomalies remain concerning 9/11.
What happened to the Trump I voted for?
They didn't ban lead paint for your safety 🤔
Rare Clip:
1933 Chicago World’s Fair: 125,000 people watched a Jewish-produced pageant that literally reenacted passing a child through the fire to Moloch.
My latest blog post is up: "'The Robe'—Another Hollywood Sleight of Hand?” https://jamesperloff.net/the-robe-another-hollywood-sleight-of-hand/
“They have stolen my harvest and taken everything from us they’ve left us with absolutely nothing. They’ve destroyed our identity.”
A Palestinian grandfather cries after Zionist settlers destroyed his olive groves and stole the olives in Tulkarem (West Bank).
