Stephen Woody
A community photograph, and you’re invited to stand in, and smile.
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We’ll likely shoot video as well, and put the video of the community portrait online at www.montrosepress.com.
Thanks to Marge Keehfuss, for including this little event into the big agenda; and fire chief Bob Pistor, for letting us use the fire truck for a few minutes.
Recommended…….
There’s probably not a better bad guy in movies today than Anthony Hopkins. His latest film, “Fracture,” is not quite Hannibal Lecter-ish, but he’s close. Hoskins’ Ted Alexander is clearly the smartest, most malevolent wronged husband in a while. He matches wits with “Willie” (Ryan Gosling), a slick, cocky prosecutor who is one his way out into big time corporate law. The film is clever, stylish, one of those cat-and-mouse thrillers. The viewer sees the crime up front in the first few minutes and it looks like Hopkins, who catches his wife in an affair with a police officer, is an open-and-shut, full-confession guilty plea. Not so.
It’s worth a look in the friendly, commodious confines of the Fox Theatre, in downtown Montrose.
David Halberstam was my favorite non-fiction author.
After I learned of his death Monday night, I went downstairs and looked at his books. He pretty much wrote about the things I enjoyed reading. He wrote of politics (“The Best and the Brightest”), media (“The Powers that Be”), baseball (“Summer of 49”, “October 1964”), and American culture (“The Fifties”). He also wrote a best-seller about how the 9/11 attack affected one particular group, Engine 40, Ladder 35, entitled “Firehouse.”
Halberstam, 73, was killed in a car accident en route to another interview about the NYGiants/Baltimore Colts game of 1958. Though he had earned much fame and fortune, he was still at heart a working journalist. When son William and I were touring the New York Times earlier this month, we stopped and read of Halberstam’s Pulitzer Prize, the won he won at age 30 while covering Vietnam in 1964. It’s displayed with the other Pulitzers on the top floor of the Times building. This reporting, with an accent on Buddist monks setting themselves on fire to protest the government, led to his first acclaimed book, “The Making of a Quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy Era.”
Halberstam, though a Harvard grad, started working in small newspapers before ending up at the Times, and going onto books and other projects. Tall and courtly with a deep voice, he spoke a few years ago at the Denver Press Club, a memorable night of story-telling, and a review of the state of journalism.
He will be missed terribly.
Jeremy Trujillo, 8 years old, has been diagnosed with lymphoma. On April 17, there was a fundraiser at the Monart School of Art.
If you’d like to help, contact Mary & Dave Hill, owners of American Glaze/Monart, and there’s an account at Montrose Bank, Trujillo Family Fund.
Quotable
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you can see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, writer
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