DONALD TRUMP COSPLAYS KILGORE IN APOCALYPSE NOW RAMBLE

 Chicago doesn’t deserve this horrible stupid visual meme the city and state should be left alone to cope with crime, it’s root causes and fallout instead of being federally big footed and used for a photo op of Guard troops wandering around the Magnificent Mile while more hard working regular people have to tread anxiously and, circling back to the dumb shock and awe meme, one can be disgusted anew by how Donald Trump who called soldiers suckers and losers and chose to avoid Vietnam not out of principle but expedience chooses to be exploitive and again counts on an unthinking unreflective core group to wave him through to the next outrage

REVIEWS AND OTHERWISE on two types of movie sequels

 Comparing the move-the-story-forward success of A QUIET PLACE PART II to the often sluggish retreading of THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT https://anchor.fm/terry-mccarty/episodes/SEQUELITIS-THE-CONJURING-THE-DEVIL-MADE-ME-DO-IT-VS-A-QUIET-PLACE-PART-II-e1271un

The celebrity deaths continue.

Comedian/impressionist Fred Travelena died at 66:
http://www.popeater.com/television/article/fred-travalena-dies/547966?icid=mainhtmlws-maindl2link3http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popeater.com%2Ftelevision%2Farticle%2Ffred-travalena-dies%2F547966

Actress/singer Gale Storm died at 87--almost completely unknown to today's generation but a popular sitcom star in the 50s (MY LITTLE MARGIE, THE GALE STORM SHOW)--and she recorded "I Hear You Knocking" a couple of decades before Dave Edmunds:
http://www.popeater.com/television/article/gale-storm-dies/547078?icid=mainhtmlws-maindl2link6http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popeater.com%2Ftelevision%2Farticle%2Fgale-storm-dies%2F547078

And another posthumous Michael Jackson note--some want Disneyland to revive CAPTAIN EO, the 3-D featurette starring Jackson and directed by Francis Ford Coppola:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/eo/

Pauline Kael, although deceased, still provokes negative reactions.

Occasional NEW YORKER capsule film critic Richard Brody raises his leg and uses the late Pauline Kael's gravestone as a fire hydrant--in the context of a Kael vs. Andrew Sarris mention:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2009/06/critical-condition-part-2.html

As I recall, Kael had her biases (to put it mildly), but she liked a great variety of films and filmmakers (witness the 5001 NIGHTS AT THE MOVIES compilation of her capsule reviews). But you wouldn't know it from Brody's brief, bitchy throwaway remark.

But Kael's desire to be a Cinema Influence (a description the late film producer Saul David tagged her with in his book THE INDUSTRY) did anger a few people--and it could be said that the new Francis Coppola film TETRO (which I generally liked) has a key character (the tastemaker Alone, played by Carmen Maura) clearly intended as Coppola's version of Brody's critique.

But at least Francis put more effort into his characterization of Pauline Kael than Richard Brody does.