Birthday Gift for HIM!

We all have that special day of the year.
It's called the birthday. Sure, you can
celebrate it any which way you please
but the fact is you can't avoid it.

While these special occasions are a blast
when we're little..........................

.........................they're not so desirable as we age past 29. Suddenly we're looking around and saying; what happened? Regardless of the date your big day falls on, you probably put more focus on your loved ones and their birthdays.This is where the dilemma begins. Ah, what to buy? Well, don't fret; there are plenty of gift ideas out there for anyone. These days I have no trouble locating that special something for my wife. The plethora of options has made this all too easy. So for all you ladies out there, let me give you some advice when buying birthday gifts for him. If you have a husband or simply a boyfriend, you may......Read on about Birthday Gifts for him

Peter Charalambos
Editor in Chief

Pictures of Scarface!

We are happy to add this article on Pictures of Scarface in the interest of art. It's not often that we highlight a film but this great movie is a must. A convict expelled from Cuba in 1980 when emigration to the U.S. is briefly opened, he (Scarface) enters Miami's underworld with a lust for power and material wealth that we witness more in awe than in empathy.
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Since a quick rise and fall is assured from the start, our hope is that De Palma's skill at portraying the outrageous potential of human greed in the movie Scarface, will be enough to keep us hooked. On this count, for at least two thirds of its running time, even SCARFACE naysayers would have to admit it succeeds. Even the title Scarface has an effect.

Transferring the premise of Howard Hawks' 1932 classic from
Prohibition era Chicago to then contemporary South Florida, Oliver Stone's screenplay follows Tony's journey in a "matter of course" style that makes it clear just how he gets so far in such a short period of time. This method of storytelling is a perfect match for the cinematic "domino effect" De Palma had been developing since SISTERS, whereby characters move toward pivotal confrontations (i.e. Carrie from early humiliation to her disastrous prom) through a simple but inexorable flow of events.

Thus a mob hit set up by Tony's friend and partner Manny Rivera (Steven Bauer) leads to their early release from a refugee camp. This in turn brings them more work on the outside, and after surviving a drug pickup gone bad, they win the trust of local kingpin Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia).

Once Tony (scarface) has reached this stage, the rest seems natural. If he can establish himself as

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Editor in Chief

Peter Charalambos

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When we speak of Andy Warhol pictures we are speaking of not only two kinds of pictures but of a distinctive era........

......................in American culture, of artists, models, and of factories turned into the-place-to-be studios.



Of course, now, at our end, we have the collections, galleries, and museum shows featuring Andy Warhol pictures of the sixties/during the flower-power and pop art period ascension—those the unique genius created under the influence of.............Read about Andy Warhol 

Peter Charalambos

Editor in Chief