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Carol Smaldino

Finding What Drives Us Through Driving Miss Daisy

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Carol Smaldino, Driving Miss Daisy, James Earl Jones, Alfred Uhry, Golden Theatre, Racism, Racism in America, Vanessa Redgrave, New York Times Theater Review, Driving Miss Daisy Review, Broadway Review, Driving Miss Daisy Broadway, Driving Miss Daisy Broadway Show, Arts News
Carol Smaldino

Without surprise, James Earl Jones cannot help but impress anyone present by how much he loves his character "Hoke." Certainly Jones knows the racial issues contained in the play, as he knows his own from his real past.

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Veteran's Day Special: Coming Down to Earth with "Occupation: Dreamland"

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Iraq War, Iraq War Dead, Veteran's Day, American Soldiers, Fort Hood, Carol Smaldino, Pakistan, Independent Spirit Awards, Ian Olds, Fort Hood Shootings, Afghanistan War, Occupation-Dreamland, Garrett Scott, 82nd Airborne, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

The massacre at Fort Hood is a stark reminder of the need to guard against becoming numb against the horrors our soldiers face in war. Fortunately, the film "Occupation: Dreamland" fills that void.

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The Ethics of Insight

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Psychotherapy, Carol Smaldino, Morality, Distraction, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Ethics, Religion and Morality, Politics of Distraction, The Shadow, Erik Erikson, Carl Jung, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

Distraction is the redirection of attention from the social, economic, political, and climate emergencies that afflict us locally and globally.

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In the Shadows of "Our" Torture

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Shadow, Carol Smaldino, Holocaust, Carol-Smaldino, Genocide, Psychologists, CIA Torture, Psychology, Human Rights Abuses, Carl Jung, Psychoanalysis, Carl-Jung, Torture, Abu Ghraib, World News
Carol Smaldino

With a kind of paranoia, we deny and project parts of ourselves: in the meantime over the course of history we have felt justified in blaming, hating, fearing, conquering and even torturing.

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Showing Up for "The Soloist"

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Joe Write, Colonialism, Steve Lopez, The Soloist, Carol Smaldino, Homelessness, US Poverty, Schizophrenia, Racism, Jamie Foxx, Accountability, Robert Downey Jr, Compassion, Entertainment News
Carol Smaldino

This is a film that can be so moving in stunningly powerful ways that it may be tempting to avoid watching it.

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