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There are plenty of reasons to be confused by AIR, Ben Affleck’s ‘80s movie about Nike’s historic Air Jordan deal. From the moment the trailer debuted during the Super Bowl, viewers wondered, “Who will play Michael Jordan?” He’s nowhere to be found in the preview (and as it turns out, the movie). Instead, the cast is studded with A-list stars like Matt Damon, Viola Davis, and Affleck himself in a comical haircut that tops his Argo coif.

Kia ora friends,  Every fortnight this newsletter seems to sneak up on me. While I like to think I can be a relatively organised person most of the time, you’d be surprised how often I get to Friday and then spin into semi-panic mode that I haven’t thought once about what I’m going to write and share with you all in two days’ time. But I find a little bi…

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Image by L.E. Wilson from RedBubble based on definition from Dictionary.com Professor, author, and radio host Mary L. Tabor graciously invited moviewise to be a guest writer on “Only Connect,” a newsletter about all things literary. The following is an extension of moviewise’s article, “The Art of the Screenplay,” published on September 15, 2022. If you’d like to delve more deeply into the meaning of art, beauty, and skill, please click here to read the original article, and let us know what you think!

In 1962, the only parents on the block who had a color TV lived across the street from us. Their daughter, Lily, was my friend so I got the big invite from her mother: come watch The Wizard of Oz with us. At eight-years-old I was as awed as Dorothy opening the front door to Oz when the television screen went from black and white to color. What a moment!

Things have escalated quite quickly with Orlando Brown Jr. and the Chiefs. As recently as Monday morning, it was assumed by most (myself included) that Brown would be given the franchise tag designation if he and the team were unable to come to a long-term agreement. And then… There are a lot of potential takeaways from this. One could view it as Kansas City wanting to be more aggressive in free agency this year.

I first learned about the Huthi rebels about 20 years ago when, as a diplomat in Yemen, I accompanied the British Ambassador to the Presidential Palace. There, the wily President Ali Abdallah Salih, who would later be killed by Huthis in 2017 after his alliance with them fell apart, told us about a new Shi’a militia movement, led by the Huthi family, operating in the rugged mountains north of Sa’ada, backed by Iran and Lebanese Hizbullah and surprisingly hard to defeat.