by Jeffrey Davies | Aug 8, 2017 | Blog, TV |
As fans of the CBS daytime soap The Young and the Restless know, Dina Mergeron (Marla Adams), mother to Jack (Peter Bergman), Ashley (Eileen Davidson) and Traci Abbott (Beth Maitland), returned to Genoa City this past May. The last time she was seen was in 2008, when...
by Jeffrey Davies | Aug 1, 2017 | Blog, Books, Pop Culture |
A few weeks ago, I decided I was going to read the first two Mary Poppins books, Mary Poppins and Mary Poppins Comes Back, which are the basis for the classic 1964 Disney live-action musical. While I can singlehandedly recite the movie to you, I’d never read any...
by Jeffrey Davies | Jul 28, 2017 | Blog, Music, Pop Culture |
People with good taste will appreciate these criminally underrated albums. 1. Ashley Tisdale – Guilty Pleasure (2009) (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons) I mentioned this album in my list of underrated artists, but it deserves to...
by Jeffrey Davies | Jul 21, 2017 | Blog, Pop Culture, TV |
She turned the world on with her smile, and opened the door for generations of women to come. Back in January, when television pioneer Mary Tyler Moore died at age 80, I remember being saddened, just as anyone is when a celebrity dies. As the old soul that I am who...
by Jeffrey Davies | Jul 20, 2017 | Blog, Books |
When We Rise is a memoir written by LGBT and human rights activist Cleve Jones, who essentially saw the gay liberation and rights movement from the very beginning. I first met Cleve when he was played by Emile Hirsch in the 2008 film Milk, which I actually only...
by Jeffrey Davies | Jul 15, 2017 | Blog, Books, Pop Culture |
Over fifty years after her death, the links that were always missing from poet Sylvia Plath’s story may finally have been found. If you’re familiar with poetry or literature, or both, one would hope you might be familiar with one of the twentieth century’s best...
