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POST-OSCARS 2013

February 26, 2013 by Flash and Filigree

The Oscars this year were held once again in the spacious Dolby (former Kodak) theatre in Hollywood, a venue that seats over 3,000 people. The host was the versatile Seth McFarlane, tall, boyish, and easy to like. He can sing a little, dance a little, and he moves things along, a virtue when hosting a nearly four-hour show. The joke writers must be top of the line—this is the Oscars, after all—and yet, it seemed that the jokes were not […]

Categories: Hollywood • Tags: Ang Lee, Diana Ossana, Larry McMurtry, The Oscars, Writing

THE OSCARS

February 24, 2013 by Flash and Filigree

The Oscars might best be viewed as an annual rite practiced by the American film industry once a year, an anthropology starting with the culture of wranglers, the young people’s job it is to get the right star to the right seat, the right journalists, and the right limo once the event is over. Usually they do, but now and then there’s a catastrophe, as when Larry wandered off to the bathroom during the Golden Globes, leaving Diana to fend […]

Categories: Hollywood • Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain, Diana Ossana, Larry McMurtry, Screenplay, The Oscars

KATE MIDDLETON

February 22, 2013 by Flash and Filigree

Let’s agree that the rather unexceptional young woman who was once Kate Middleton and is now the Duchess of Cambridge is, above all, cute, which includes perky. Attractive, sure; appealing, sure; but really cute. And now even pregnant, which is what princesses, recent or remote, essentially hire on to be once they marry into the rather stiff British royal family. They produce an heir, few of them brilliant, and the rest is mostly ribbon cutting. Good for her! Isn’t she […]

Categories: The Magazine World • Tags: Diana Ossana, Hilary Mantel, Kate Middleton, Larry McMurtry, Princess Diana

GREEN FIELDS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL – COMMENCEMENT 1995

February 8, 2013 by Flash and Filigree

Ladies and gentlemen, teachers and seniors, this is a ritual we’re enacting—a rite of passage, if you will, and a mild and pleasant one, comparatively speaking. None of the seniors will be required to kill a lion singlehandedly, or have a body part removed. All that’s necessary, in our gentle rite, is that the seniors be draped for a bit in these anachronistic vestments, sit with modesty and patience through some brief solemnities, and be handed a piece of sheepskin, […]

Categories: Sweet Reason & Sour • Tags: Graduation, Larry McMurtry, Speech

REFLECTIONS ON QUARTERBACKS

February 3, 2013 by Flash and Filigree

As we suggested already, there is no more high profile position in NFL football than that of quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, America’s team, as they often call themselves; though there are many, including these writers, who think the moniker is a stretch. Just after we finished an earlier blog about the stylistic differences between the Achilles-like Tom Brady and the suburban dad, Hector-like Peyton Manning, we turned on the concluding minutes of a critical game between the Cowboys and […]

Categories: Curve Balls • Tags: Dallas Cowboys, Diana Ossana, Larry McMurtry, NFL, Superbowl, Texas Rangers, Tom Brady, Tony Romo

FLASH AND FILIGREE

February 1, 2013 by Flash and Filigree

Information addicts Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry are plunging into the trackless jungles of the blogs, Larry a first-time computer user, and Diana a practiced hand, as they trek through the topics of the day, which might be almost anything: NFL Quarterbacks; Hollywood superstars, what few are left; Hillary and the President on 60 Minutes, the consummate professionals, doing our country credit; or Tina Fey’s last episode of 30 Rock, though she remains as bright and sexy as ever. We, […]

Categories: Intel • Tags: Blog, Computers, Diana Ossana, Larry McMurtry, Technology

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