One of my most vivid childhood memories is a close-up of Luke in his X-Wing, fighting in the Death Star Battle from Star Wars. I was about 4 years old when my parents took me to see Star Wars, and I loved it. I know they took me to see The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi as well; in fact, I have this memory of seeing each in the theater three times. So, when ESB premiered 30 years ago, I was 6 years old. You can’t imagine how the sights and sounds of the AT-ATs attacking on
Continue readingCategory: Articles
Requiem for a Battlestar
I admit it; I didn’t watch Battlestar Galactica when it first came on. Okay, that’s not quite true. I watched the initial mini-series when it first aired, but I didn’t remember much about it. I certainly watched it a few days after the rest of my friends had seen it, and I remember commenting that “Oh, hey, making Boomer a Cylon was kind of interesting.” But for some reason, I had been distracted while watching it, so some of it didn’t make sense. And, to be honest, I had less-than-fond memories of the original series, which existed in a hazy
Continue readingFred Rogers – An Appreciation
“What is Essential is Invisible to the Eye” When the alarm clock went off this morning, I was instantly dropped into the middle of a conversation on the radio. For some reason, the radio team was talking about Fred Rogers, the host of the long-running Public Broadcasting Service show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” For one brief second, my still groggy mind thought, “Why are they talking about Mister Rogers?” Then it hit me — he must have died. And as I clung to a brief hope that maybe he was in the news for getting some major award, I knew that
Continue reading