New video up today. QuickTime of interview for local UHF station in 1984. 3/4″ Umatic was still the standard for field shooting in those days, which don’t seem so long ago. At least in Boston, Beta didn’t finally supplant the last Umatic edit station until I was at the ABC affiliate Channel 5 in 1992.… Continue reading

It now appears that the financial background of successful authors is a subject for books, perhaps because publishers deem this will be more interesting to readers than discussion of their literary work. Fine. I’d like to know how much money Stephen King and Mary Higgins Clark sock away, and what they do with it. But… Continue reading

In conjunction with a new book on digital video that I am writing for Charles River Media, I am rebuilding the web site here to archive digital samples of video dating back to the days when cameras and video decks were first available to the public. And I mean—way before VHS. If you’re interested in… Continue reading

At the risk of beating the Boston Cardinal Law story into the ground, I can’t ignore the latest bizzare statement he made regarding his hand picked Finance Council’s rejection last Friday of the multi-million dollar settlement with 86 victims of defrocked priest John Geoghan to which he had agreed last month. Yesterday Cardinal Law said… Continue reading

Revisiting The Verdict. Over the past couple of months, I’ve noticed Sidney Lumet’s 1982 movie The Verdict playing, perhaps on AMC or one of the other movie channels. When the movie first came out, I rolled my eyes at the (I thought) standard stereotyping of the Catholic hierarchy—the cold, almost corporate Boston archbishop hiring the… Continue reading