Published April 26, 2005
"Scenes Of Love And Death In The Third Reich" is the premiere of an original play by Milwaukee's Dale Gutzman. It's both a biography and a history of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a physician famous for inventing the descriptive "transvestite."
Published March 18, 2005
Everybody seems to be talking about "The Downfall" these days and especially about Bruno Ganz's portrayal as Adolph Hitler. Whether or not you think the world needs another film about Hitler and the Nazis, however, is your decision and we'll accept any cogent argument on that point.
Published Jan. 23, 2004
How to define guilt? That is the question at the heart of "Taking Sides," starring Harvey Keitel, directed by Oscar-winning director Istvan Szabo and written by Ronald Harwood, who won an Oscar for "The Pianist."
Published Sept. 9, 2003
Did you ever expect to hear John Cusack utter the line, "C'mon Hitler, I'll buy you a lemonade?" But it sums up the feel of Menno Meyjes' "Max," a production written and directed by Meyjes and co-produced by Cusack.
Published March 28, 2003
It's slow, it's considered, it's powerful. "Blind Spot -- Hitler's Secretary" is a no-nonsense, no-frills documentary about the experiences of Traudl Junge, who worked as Hitler's secretary from 1943 until the end of the war.
Saturday December 15th, 2012 – Fox Lake, IL Comedians as a collective group can be some of the most insensitive people on the planet when it comes to showing tact when discussing controversial topics. It’s our job to rattle the cages of a mostly thick headed public, a...
Sunday October 21st, 2012 – Fox Lake, IL What is wrong with this planet? Yet another psychotic wackadoo flipped out and walked into a beauty salon in the Milwaukee area with a gun today and went on a shooting spree. He ended up killing his wife and two others who worked ther...
Monday May 16th, 2011 - Fox Lake, IL As much as it’s hard for me to believe, on a very small level to certain people I can pass for a celebrity. I may be on the ‘Z list‘, and I don’t claim higher, but it’s a fact. I don’t say that for bragging purpo...
Back in the 1980s, a very successful ad campaign for investment adviser E.F. Hutton featured variations on a crowded room - an airport, cocktail reception or restaurant. When one person mentioned to another that ‘E.F. Hutton says...' the room would suddenly become silent as everyone tried t...
Sunday September 7th, 2008 - Kenosha, WI/Lake Villa, ILThe sad and painful truth poked me in the poop shoot today that it doesn’t mean a damn thing to be right. It really doesn’t. Time after time in my life I’ve been in some conflict or dispute or disagreement over something and...
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