"The casting couch had been presented - and I declined."

Jane Seymour Talks Ruby's Choice, Harry Wild. And that casting couch the point of departure in our conversation with Seymour some years ago - leading to a followup as to how exactly she has eluded the fate of older actresses, continuing to shine in a steady stream of screen portrayals today. Plus, the mystery behind her stage name switch somehow from Frankenstein to an unfortunate spouse of Hentry VIII.

And the British actress holding her own as psychic and seductress Solitaire against Roger Moore's James Bond in Live And Let Die early on, to Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman on the small screen, Marie Antoinette, Maria Callas - and currently as an artist stricken with dementia in Ruby's Choice. Along with playing yes, a woman named Harry in the dramatic mystery series, Harry Wild.

** "In many ways the Soviet Union was winning the culture war, because they were sending out the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera. They were culture - and we were bubble gum and Coca Cola..."  

Taking Venice: The US government fighting communism with culture.  A conversation with filmmaker and celebrated art critic, Amei Wallach. Venturing into the sinister US intrigue that went down back then, while promoting at the time clueless post-modern artist Robert Rauschenberg. Where it all began, and what it has to do with John Cage, Selma, Vietnam, and the atom bomb.

Artist In Residence: Peter Wise

** "So here's the bottom line, Biden doesn't work for you. The US Empire, they got wars, they got things to do - they've got people to kill, that's what they do..."

The Mission Of The US Government Is This...Pacifica Host Garland Nixon on making sense of connections between US wars, elections, the working class, 850 US bases around the world, and girlfriends..

** " 'The home is a place of privilege, of happiness.' She pronounced each of her words slowly, with almost a breathless whisper. She had turned real estate into pillow talk - and then ruined it..."

Bro On The Global Literary Beat. Dennis Broe presents an episode from his latest Harry Palmer detective noir series cornering LA racist real estate vultures, 'The House That Buff Built.'

Referencing men in dark suits lurking in the shadows, the Klan, rhythm & blues on the radio, segregation and manicured lawns - and 'a Nixon smear campaign against a political rival, pinko right down to her underpants...'

Adam The First Review: Roots, Identity And A Musical Diner

The sort of storytelling equally reflected as well in any attempted review, can be summed up as less is decidedly more, when meeting the challenge of elaborating on what is best left to the viewer imagination with this movie. Suffice it to say, that whatever conventional circumstances exist in the real world concerning lost and found children, best to enter this tale of somewhat biblical proportions as suggested in the title, with an extraordinarily open mind.

Adam (Oakes Fegley), the subject of the film, lives in a trailer sequestered deep in the woods, a boy being raised by James (David Duchovny) and Mary (Kim Jackson Davis). A couple affectionate towards Adam, but confessing to him that they've been raising him since he was discovered as an infant nearby, abandoned by his unknown widowed father at a loss regarding how to raise him alone. But they've been concealing yet another disturbing secret - they're being hunted by the authorities, and have recruited Adam to patrol the area to ward off any approaching danger.

And at some point Adam finds himself alone, and sets out on an odyssey to find his real father - with only three potential clues at hand. But while the quest in itself enchants the journey with each unanticipated discovery, the finale begs for more. In other words, and again without too much information to spoil the proceedings - less attention to the impromptu musical performance intended to wrap everything up and instead a dramatic conflict however messy, would have satisfied more.

Prairie Miller
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