“My Name is Pauli Murray” – “I want to see America be what she says she is in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. America, be what you proclaim to be!” – Pauli Murray During the opening few minutes of the documentary “My Name is Paul Murray”, Karen Rouse Ross – who is Pauli Murray’s grand-niece and the executrix of her estate – explains, “Pauli did not share a lot about her life with me. I knew she was a priest. I knew she had been a lawyer, but she…
Day: October 1, 2021
‘The Many Saints of Newark’ commits a sin because it’s better suited as a series
“The Many Saints of Newark” – “The Sopranos” ran for six glorious, Emmy Award-winning seasons from 1999 to 2007. Fourteen years after Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” accompanied the fateful and sudden shudder to black on the last scene of the series finale, a “The Sopranos” feature film – “The Many Saints of Newark” – arrives in theatres and HBO Max. Yes, believe it! “The Sopranos” creator David Chase has been approached to write a movie about our “favorite” New Jersey mob family before, but he always resisted. However, in an…