Resources for October 15, 2017

Bowman, Emma. "'SNL' Goes After 'Well-Dressed Skin Tag' Weinstein, Stages Pence Walkouts." The Two-Way (October 15, 2017)

Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "The Witches of Eastwick." Junk Food Cinema (June 6, 2017)

Hancock, James and Mike Vanderbilt. "One, Two, Freddy's Coming for You." Wrong Reel #329 (October 2017)

Hogan, Ron. "'Still No Master Plan': The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu’s 2023: A Trilogy." Los Angeles Review of Books (October 15, 2017)

"‘Masculine Arrogance Blows’: Jonathan Richman's Letter To Creem Magazine, 1973." Dangerous Minds (May 19, 2014)

Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Berrett- Koehler, 2004.

Shelton, Taylor. "Locked Out: Foreclosure, Eviction and Housing Instability in Lexington, 2005 - 2016." Lexington Fair Housing Council (October 2017)

Walls, Laura Dassow. "The Life of Henry David Thoreau." Radio West (October 13, 2017) ["Henry David Thoreau famously went to Walden Pond to “live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.” But as the scholar Laura Dassow Walls shows in a new biography, there was much more to Thoreau’s life and work than his brief experiment at Spartan living in the woods. He was an inventor, a manual laborer, a gifted naturalist, a writer of great originality, and an uncompromising abolitionist. Walls joins us Monday to explore Thoreau’s profound, complex, and influential life."]





Santini, Antonio, et al. "Dina." Film School Radio (October 13, 2017)  ["DINA, an outspoken and eccentric 49-year-old in suburban Philadelphia, invites her fiancé Scott, a Walmart door greeter, to move in with her. Having grown up neurologically diverse in a world blind to the value of their experience, the two are head-over-heels for one another, but shacking up poses a new challenge.Getting married in a few weeks and there’s still so much to do. She has to move her boyfriend, Scott, from his parents’ house to her apartment, and settle him in to only the second home he’s ever had, all while juggling his schedule as an early morning Walmart door greeter.She has to get her dress, confirm arrangements with the venue, and make peace with her family, who remain nervous for their beloved DINA, after the death of her first husband and the string of troubled relationships that followed. Throughout it all, in the face of obstacles large and small, DINA, remains indomitable. She’s overcome tragedy and found the man she wants and is bent on building the life for herself that she believes she deserves. DINA captures the cadences and candid conversations of a relationship that reexamines the notion of love on-screen. DINA is unstoppable, a force of nature, and as the star of her own life story, she’s an unconventional movie protagonist the likes of which hasn’t been seen before.