The “daily” in The Daily Dudek is more of an ideal aspired to, than something literally accomplished or executed.
You shouldn’t set your calendar to it, never mind your watch.
Its a place where random bits of data you might have missed come to die.
For instance….
- It’s the anniversary of the assassination of John Lennon by Mark David Chapman in 1980. I was working rewrite and remember the scramble to get something in the morning paper. The next day front page story in the Milwaukee Journal, carried the headline. “Hawaii Man Held in Death of Music Superstar Lennon.”
- “Interstellar” and “St. Vincent” leave the Oriental Theater Thursday. Opening Friday: “Wild,” based on the book by Cheryl Strayed, with Reese Witherspoon. Also Friday “Point and Shoot,” about an American adventurer who ends up fighting with rebels in Syria. It premiered locally at the Milwaukee Film Festival. “Theory of Everything,” “Force Majeure” and “Birdman” hold.
- The Sundance Film Festival programs include Alex Gibney’s Scientology doc “Going Clear,” Kurt Cobain and Nina Simone documentaries, and narrative films by Nick Hornby, Fleck-Boden, Baumbach and Pulcini-Springer Berman.
NPR’s top 50 albums of 2015 include some familiar names – St. Vincent, War on Drugs and Spoon – but considerably more obscure acts. (NPR)
Some of the best photos of the year, from the AP and Time. (Poynter)
- The eleven year old boy who plays the Supreme Being in “Exodus: Gods and Kings” triggered this short primer about God on film. (TheDudekAbides)
- The Gay rights film “Pride” beat “The Imitation Game” as best film at British Independent Film awards.
- Stream the “Inherent Vice” soundtrack, with Neil Young, Radiohead on Spotify.
- FCC fines Journal Broadcast Group $115,000 for violating FCC rules on sponsored content. Las Vegas TV station filed “special reports” on car sales. Fourth item. (TomTaylorNow)
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