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Author: Jay Ruud
Trivia Question for October 22
The oldest ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature was born on this date in 1919. Who was it? [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/contest-question-for-october-22/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]
Movie Review: Gone Girl by David Fincher
[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Tennyson-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’77’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] RUUD RATING Gone Girl 3 TENNYSONS [/av_image] Gone Girl, David Fincher’s dramatization of the best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn (who adapted her book for the film’s screenplay) opened on October 3, so this review is coming late to the party. But as might… Continue reading Movie Review: Gone Girl by David Fincher
Contest Question for October 15
Today is the birthday of P.G. Wodehouse, famous for writing nearly 100 volumes of comic fiction. Wodehouse is best known for his novels featuring Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves. But does anyone out there know Wodehouse’s other best-known series of comic novels? Trivia bragging rights for the day if you can name the country… Continue reading Contest Question for October 15
Movie Review: The Judge by David Dobkin
[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Susanns.jpg’ attachment=’78’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] RUUD RATING Gone With The Wind 2 JACQUELINE SUSANNS [/av_image] As of the writing of this column (Saturday, October 11, after having seen The Judge at our local theater), the Rotten Tomatoes rating of this film was at 47%. In contrast, the percentage… Continue reading Movie Review: The Judge by David Dobkin
Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est”
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Contest Question for October 8
DON’T START WITH ME: What famous English novel begins with this paragraph? It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. Here emulation most effectually… Continue reading Contest Question for October 8
Movie Review: Gone With The Wind by Victor Fleming
[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Shakespeare-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’76’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] RUUD RATING Gone With The Wind 4 SHAKESPEARES [/av_image] This week, Cinemark and Turner Classic Movies began showing the classic film Gone With the Wind on the big screen across the country, in commemoration of the film’s 75th anniversary. The movie premiered in… Continue reading Movie Review: Gone With The Wind by Victor Fleming
Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice”
Contest Question for October 1
On this date in 1857, the first installment of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary was published. It offended the government of the French Second Empire so much that Flaubert was brought to trial on obscenity charges in January of 1857. He was acquitted, but later that same year, another famous literary text was brought to trial in France, and… Continue reading Contest Question for October 1