It’s not that the Oscar-winning filmmaker from New Zealand, who gave us the unsettling and ravishing THE PIANO hasn’t done anything since then, it’s just that the promise of that film’s tantalizing sexual complexities has
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About “Random Events Tend To Cluster”
Whose Land Is This?
If you’re a “minority” in this country, as many of us are many times over – brown, queer, black, Asian, Mexican, HIV-positive, immigrant, female, disabled, ANYTHING but white (especially Evangelical Christian) male—this election is the big
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Meryl is a miracle
For those of us watching HBO’s totally ridiculous, yet totally entertaining, soap opera, “BIG LITTLE LIES,” I just want to say 2 words: MERYL STREEP How can it be that this wizard of acting skills
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THAT AWFUL SMELL…COMING OUT OF DC FOR YEARS AND YEARS…
Long before the nightmare of Donald Trump, another devil was living in the details of our Congress, plotting and rotting America’s beautiful core. Mitch McConnell’s tenure in the Senate has been a stain on our
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Not on our watch!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(right, with her guest) is wearing a pin with a picture of the 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in US custody. This beautiful child, (r) Jakelin Caal Maquin, died after she was not given
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Paddling and promoting
Judy paddle boards through Kailua-Kona bay on Christmas Eve day—making a promotions video for her new book, “Random Events Tend To Cluster.”
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Calling them “monsters” is too easy
What’s wrong with making these people monsters? Harvey Weinstein is the earthquake under the volcano. Bullying women (or anyone) into giving favors—sexual or otherwise—has been going on since the Greeks and Romans—maybe even the cavemen.
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Why I wrote my memoir this way
Why did I write my memoir in this format? Why didn’t I just tell my own story? Why complicate each episode of my life by mixing in the stories of people whose only apparent connection
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