Here Comes the Boom

A movie in high circulation on cable right now is ‘The Intern.’ The film stars Robert De Niro as Ben Whitaker, a retired 70-year-old widower who is bored with retirement. He applies to a be a senior intern at an online fashion retailer and gets the position. Jules Ostin, the founder of the company, played […]

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Real Mature

My friend, Bill, loves the ‘Back to the Future’ movies about as much as I love the ‘Star Wars’ movies. He even owns his own DeLorean! So on November 5, I wished him a Happy Back to the Future Day. That’s the date in 1955 that Christopher Lloyd’s character, Doc Brown, fell in his bathroom […]

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Didn’t Make the Cut

Growing up, I idolized Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player of all time. While he was anything but humble at his Basketball Hall of Fame acceptance speech, he did have a humble beginning to his career. As a 15-year-old, 5’10” sophomore at Emsley A. Laney High School, Jordan was cut from the varsity basketball team. […]

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