Category Archives: Movies
Three Faces
Category Art, Discussion, Movies
As you know, noted actor Paul Newman passed away recently. Newman had been married to actress Joanne Woodward from January 1958 until he died. They weren’t your standard version of a Hollywood couple. In fact, at the time of his death, they had lived in Connecticut for many years.
Rio Natsume – Rio Bravo
Category Movies, Reviews
Rio Natsume – Rio Bravo (November 20, 2008) Line Communications/I-One Catalog # LCDV-40343 – Region 2 Disc – 4:3 Aspect – MPEG-2 Running Time: 60 minutes Nearly 50 years ago, in April of 1959, Academy Award winning director Howard Hawks released a Western or cowboy movie called Rio Bravo. It starredJohn Wayne as a Texas [...]
Buckaroo
Category Art, Movies
Recently I watched the movie, The Hunt for Red October (1990). This is a real man’s movie filled with submarine warfare, geo-politics and its offspring – political brinksmanship, as well as great heaping gobs of pure testosterone. There’s no sex or romance in this tale, in fact there may not even be any speaking roles [...]
A Look at Africa
Category Movies
For the longest time, here at AoV, we’ve been visiting various Pacific and Asian beach resorts with a plethora of lovely Japanese Gravure Idols. Bangtao Beach, Phuket, Thailand We’ve been to locations from Phuket in Thailand to Palau, from The Philippines (Cebu) to Pattaya, and with assorted stops in Saipan, Guam, Bali, Hawaii, Okinawa, Cairns, [...]
On The Road Again
Category Movies
Ah, it’s good to be home again. Transoceanic travels tend to wear one down; more about my travels later on in another article. Do any of you like that grizzled songwriter and singer named Willie Nelson? Have a look at some of the lyrics from one of Willie’s classic songs: On the road again, Goin’ [...]
What A Pair!
Category Art, Movies
Did you ever notice that most everything we like or need usually is a set; and is discussed, acquired, or possessed in pairs? You don’t go to the shoe store and buy two shoes do you? No, you buy a pair of shoes; in the same way you might buy a few pairs of socks. [...]
Cocktails on the Verandah
Category Movies, Travel
Late last month I found myself in Newport, RI, to be a spectator for the sailing competition. As we drove past one mansion after another on the elegant Bellevue Avenue or as we walked Newport’s treasured Cliffwalk (the next two images below), above the rocky coast, history and the present moments seemed to merge.