On this date in 1963, Sylvia Plath committed suicide. Can you tell me the title of the book for which Plath won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry? [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-february-11/’ 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: The Grudge Match 2014 – Jennifer Aniston & Marion Cotillard
One of the great controversies of this year’s Oscar race is the perceived “snub” of Jennifer Aniston for her performance in the film Cake (which garnered her a Screen Actors’ Guild nomination as well as a Golden Globe nomination for best actress) in favor of the surprise nomination for the Academy Awards’ favorite Frenchwoman Marion… Continue reading Movie Review: The Grudge Match 2014 – Jennifer Aniston & Marion Cotillard
Jay Ruud – Poetry with Dogs: The Tyger by William Blake
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Trivia Question for February 4
What do the actors Wallace Beery, Randolph Scott, and Daniel Day-Lewis all have in common? [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-february-4/’ 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: A Most Violent Year by J.C. Chandor
[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3-12.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Ruud Rating A MOST VIOLENT YEAR Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] If, as Jonathan Swift once wrote, “Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived,” then Abel Morales, protagonist of writer/director, J.C. Chandor’s new film (finally in wide release) A Most Violent Year,… Continue reading Movie Review: A Most Violent Year by J.C. Chandor
Jay Ruud – Poetry with Dogs: In Memory of W.B. Yeats by W.H. Auden
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Trivia Question for January 28
What poet made the statement “Poetry makes nothing happen”? And in what poem did he say it? [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-january-21/’ 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: Whiplash by Damien Chazelle
[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3-12.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Ruud Rating WHIPLASH Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] Director Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, though critically admired, did not reach a huge audience upon its release last November, but since its five Oscar nominations it is making the rounds again, and deserves to be seen by… Continue reading Movie Review: Whiplash by Damien Chazelle
Jay Ruud – Poetry with Dogs: To Helen by Edgar Allen Poe
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Trivia Question for January 21
Earlier this week (January 19) was Edgar Alan Poe’s birthday. Where was Poe born? (Hint: he alludes to his birthplace in his first publication in 1827). [av_button label=’ Use The Comment Form Below To Submit You Answer’ link=’http://jayruud.com/trivia-question-for-january-21/’ link_target=” color=’theme-color’ custom_bg=’#444444′ custom_font=’#ffffff’ size=’large’ position=’center’ icon_select=’yes’ icon=’ue83b’ font=’entypo-fontello’]