[Magdalen] Oscars Schmoscars

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Grand name for a tavern

T H E    TE N U O U S   H O R S E

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> From: Scott Knitter
>
>  One more way I'm off the rails when it comes to contemporary society,
>> I guess. Not that this matters a whit!
>>
>
> Let me help get everyone back on track: my nephew Trevor Paglen is
> cinematographer for the Oscar-nominated Citizenfour (The Laura Poitras
> documentary about Edward Snowden and NSA spying.
>
> So, I for one, have a tenuous horse in the race.
>
> Another nephew, Jack Paglen was Screenwriter for Transcendence last year,
> which won an Oscar (though not for him!) but it's still a nice point on the
> c.v. <g>
>
> We no longer have a movie theater in downtown Scranton -- the local
> multiplex closed Dec 31 as they didn’t want to invest in digital
> projectors. As a result, it's been awhile since we went to the movies
> anyway.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>