Los Angeles, CA —Getting to see a film at the Darrell Zanuck Theater on the Fox lot has always been a treat.   Tonight it was Exodus:   Gods and Kings starring Christen Bale and Joel Edgerton .   Ridley Scott directed this film.   It happened to be in 3D but this was not our father’s 3-D.   It was amazing to say the least. The other production surprise was a generous use of camera drones.   They smoothly hovered and passed over the actors at low altitudes.    The story was an old one.   It’s an updated Ten Commandments with Christen Bale as Moses and  Joel Edgerton as Pharaoh Ramses. These are journeyman actors that gave great performances.   The special effects were epic and very believable. Fox security workers were out in force and armed with night vision equipment diligently looking for anyone trying to capture video or audio with any devices.   Unfortunately the camera ban prevented me getting selfie sho...

Ferguson, MO—Michael Brown lived and died as a bully and thug.  However even bully’s and thugs deserve due process and a measured response to their unacceptable conduct. Many cops have criticized me for my intolerance for police misconduct in various cases.  Generally I vigorously support police but, they are human and fail miserably sometimes.  As always cover-ups are more troubling then the conduct.  When Brown was shot dead by Officer Darren Wilson , local troublemakers, all African-American offered up phony stories claiming Brown had his hands raised and was shot in the back.  Others claimed that Wilson stood over a prone Michael Brown firing shots into his lifeless body. The physical evidence quickly exposed the false versions of these so-called eyewitnesses.   Police and prosecutors went out of their way to hide the evidence and Officer Wilson’s version of events.  This was both necessary and wise.  That allowed the phony eyew...

Ferguson, MO—Michael Brown was an accomplished thug.   He was a large and cruel monster that a just moment before he died was captured on tape terrorizing a shop owner while committing a vicious strong-armed robbery. Contrary to fanciful thoughts we are not all equal.   Some are smarter, taller and stronger.   Charles Darwin said it best we were not all meant to live and that only the strongest survive. Michael Brown was born with a birth defect that made him vulnerable despite his superior strength and size.   He was incredibly stupid and at the same time extraordinarily mean.   Young Brown somehow though that he could engage in a physical confrontation with a police officer and somehow win.     That was an extraordinarily foolish act and it cost him his life.   Frankly the world is a better and safer place without this savage creep.   Now there are plenty of ignorant supporters of Michael Brown and his evil ways.   ...

Los Angeles, CA —In an location with more representation of clashing races and cultures than any other I’m searching for answers.   When looking for race relation solutions p olitical correctness is an obvious problem, not a solution. First I must debunk the biggest lie ever told.    All men are not created equal! What should be said is that basic kindness demands that we treat each other as equals. To suggest we are all created equal actually is a very brutal reminder to those with less than the best genetic gifts. We all know only too well what traits or physical improvements we’d rather have.   Plastic surgeons along with companies making skin lightening and hair straightening products have never done better.  Cultures can be respectful, peaceful and productive.   They can also be intolerant, destructive and barbaric.   I’m sorry but I insist the latter cultures are a sub-human species.   The peaceful and productive humans...

Washington, DC —Beginning with perennial and always empty promises of future border enforcement and deporting criminals, Barack Obama offered Amnesty and Green Cards to millions of border jumping trespassers. Obama’s bogus claim that enforcement tears families apart is laughable since these families can simply stay together in the countries of their origin.   Today Obama acted unlawfully and should be tried for Treason, jailed and impeached. Immigration is not broken; enforcement is what’s broken.  It’s broken by the willful and criminal obstruction of justice and the refusal of officials to obey their oaths of office. Our Congress shares blame here with its more than a hundred hard corps Socialists and Communists masked with Democrat and Republican Party labels.  Then you have corrupt Republicans thinking they’re helping big business campaign contributors with cheap labor. Obama has opened the our doors wide for unbridled welfare, food stamps, free med...

Los Angeles, CA –Today the NTSB ruled that the FAA may continue to ban any commercial use model aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles or drones. We are anxiously awaiting the FAA’s long overdue and final regulations on the drones that have become so popular primarily to photographers. The ruling leaves in tact the incredibly vague, subjective and overly broad language in it’s provision, “No person may operate an aircraft in a careless or reckless manner as to endanger the life or property or another.”   This language could allow for some judge to find that the mere flight of a device to be unlawful.   This is amazing since despite that there’s never been a single death or serious reported injury involving a multi-rotor camera drones.   If the unreasonably intrusive requirements recently imposed on filmmakers granted drone operation FAA permits are a sign of things to come this industry is doomed at least in the USA. For now the use of drones by hobbyists is s...

Los Angeles, CA —I attended a SAG screening of A Most Violent Year put on by the SAG Foundation . I never really know what to expect at these events however this was a very enjoyable and entertaining experience.   J.C. Chandor expertly wrote the script and directed the film.   It starred Oscar Isaac  as Abel Morales, an ambitious immigrant  and Jessica Chastain as his wife, Anna Morales .   All three stayed for a Q&A and were kind enough to press the flesh later.   The film is about a New York couple that is in the Home Heating Oil business.   This is a tough cutthroat industry in a city where corruption is a way of life.   Isaac seems to effortlessly play the male protagonist that seems to channel a young  Al Pacino from the Godfather films .  He dresses like a the cover of GQ Magazine and has the perfect haircut. He’s a handsome and classy man of his word caught in a mess. When you actually meet and talk to I...

Los Angeles, CA –Nearly everywhere there are some frightened members of Congress, various state legislatures and city councils that are considering ways to ban or severely regulate the little multi-rotor camera drones.   Must we always adopt the Chicken Little fear that the sky is falling ? The FAA would like to expand their budget and manpower by at least tenfold or more to regulate every 12 year-old boy with a camera drone in America.   Can the FAA be trusted to not create or engage hysteria when they have so much to gain?   We all know the answer to that! Pilots everywhere, especially those flying helicopters see the very clear handwriting on the wall.   Inexpensive and substantially safer drones will soon replace half of them. Careers are at stake here .   Should we be surprised those pilots are making the most noise condemning camera drone?    Fighting camera and delivery drones through propaganda scare tactics is already i...