Monthly Archives: July 2024

Movie Preview: Patricia Clarkson takes her “Norma Rae” shot at her workplace rights — “Lilly”

Posted on July 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

This Alabama bio-drama is about gender discrimination in the workplace, and the harassment and cut-rate pay faced by Lilly Ledbetter at a Goodyear plant in the union-fearing American South. Clarkson, 64, is a few years older than Ledbetter was when … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: Jimmy Stewart, Paulette Goddard and Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights play for radio’s “Pot o’Gold” (1941)

Posted on July 1, 2024 by Roger Moore

In an earlier life, I used to produce and engineer (record and edit) radio programs at the University of North Dakota public radio stations. A great favorite was the weekly taping with historian and history teacher Robert Wilkins, host of … Continue reading →

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