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Last weekend we ran a special radio segment about the 1981 double murder of Ronald Scharff and Patricia Freeman. They were found gunned down in the rear of the small tavern in Lakemoor, Illinois owned by Ronald Scharff. This senseless and seemingly motiveless case had police baffled, eventually the police file was relegated to the […]
Everyone has a guilty pleasure in their life, something that completely counters their alleged public tastes or persona, a taste or an activity which they might have a great deal of trouble admitting they indulge. Consider the health fanatic who secretly indulges in the occasional quart of Ben and Jerry’s, the gourmet cook with a […]
It’s been remarked that in TV situation comedy there are only about six stock characters and about as many basic plots – all else is merely updated slang and set dressing. Oliver Goldsmith’s comedy of mistaken identities (some mistaken and some deliberate) and manners might rightfully be viewed as the source and fountainhead for just […]
Brideshead Revisited hits DVD shelves January 13th 2009 and I am giving a copy to one lucky BNN reader! And congrats to our past BNN DVD contest winners! You could be next! (See below) Attention all you fans of romantic dramas, you who have suffered through endless viewings of super hero’s, mindless comedies and explosions […]
“Wall Street 1955” Back in my junior year at Yale I edited a glossy publication of articles designed to entice college graduates towards Wall St. We did this cynically as a money maker (ads from all the big Wall St. houses). No one that I knew bought in. We were all too close to the […]
When I heard that President elect Obama was planning to appoint Dr. Sanjay Gupta as the new Surgeon General of the US, I thought it was a great idea. But apparently, he’s stubbed some partisan toes along the way, and they are planning their revenge. A couple years ago, iconoclastic filmmaker Michael Moore made a […]
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