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Tea Party serves tepid brew and Bristol Palin can't dance

Posted by Harvey Ostroff on Thursday, November 25, 2010,

I've spent almost forty years as a teacher of the performing arts and have had to judge countless presentations. Some young people had that undeniable spark and some worked at it to such a degree that they were able to transcend the footlights and connect with the audience.

Poor Bristol Palin, victim of the haters and buoyed up by the tea party supporters was incapable of creating that invisible connection. She never should have been on the dance floor past week four. Brandy had it. Rick Fox h...

Do you believe?????

Posted by Harvey Ostroff on Thursday, February 4, 2010,

Donald Sutherland' s rich baritone caresses your auditory sensitivity. Do you believe?. Well, sorry folks, I don't. Not a whit. In fact I am such an unbeliever that I will be leaving town on Feb. 11 and will not return until the fiasco in the snow
( if there is any snow) is done with. I don't care whether a slalom skier, Canadian or otherwise, flies down a hill 1/200th of a second faster than another. I don't care whether the figure skating judges play politics or play fair. I do care that ...
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Mired in the sixties

Posted by Harvey Ostroff on Wednesday, April 1, 2009,

I am a left-wing, former beatnik (that's pre-hippie) who wrote poetry and read philosophies. I am a peace loving, ban the bomb marching, environmentalist who is constantly disappointed in the failure of my generation to solve or resolve all of the ills of our society. This is my background, so the fact that I own several houses, travel the world and, despite paper

losses, am somewhat unfazed by the recent stock market melt-down, belies my foundations. Unlike Jerry Rubin who became a stoc...

What's funny?

Posted by Harvey Ostroff on Monday, March 16, 2009,

In a depression such as this, laughter is hard to come by. There are a great many topics that are tabu while people are waiting for financial recovery or at the least, a few signs of stability. I hear no Geithner jokes or Bernanke jokes. Even Madoff, who 'made off' with so many people's life savings, has been mostly exempted from skewering by the comics.

Those of us who are all right for the time being, and I include myself on my teachers pension, are meeting at social gatherings and not t...

It's a beginning

Posted by Harvey Ostroff on Sunday, March 8, 2009,

This trial and error bit of work has been exciting to produce. For a guy who grew up before television this is quite an achievement. Yep that's right, I said before television. I was ten years old before the first 12" black and white TV appeared on our block. Sunday night's we used to go over to my aunt Hilda's place and " watch the radio." I guess I can't think of myself as a luddite anymore even though I haven't got a cell phone or a blackberry. I can compute!!!

Last night I went to the ...