Scene4 Magazine | letters to the editor

Thank you for your continued work. I've added this film to my Netflix queue for when it is released. Moveon.org initiates film watching parties within neighborhoods -- perhaps this is being done already with this film?
Viktorya Allen
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A breath of fresh air... This kind of experience, theater on a farm and on local subjects of interest, must be a difficult one to review and Mr. Bobkoff proved a natural for the job as both appreciative audience and critic.
He makes me wonder how often I've passed up the opportunity to take a turn from the beaten path here in Texas of touring 2nd string Broadway hits, which have lost their bloom, to perhaps find a richer experience off the highway. Thanks for sharing!
June Zaner
read Ned Bobkoff's article

Bobkoff's review of both the play ("School House") and the theater (Fourth Line Theater) does exactly what good reviews are supposed to do, and rarely do: give readers very good reasons to see the play and the place, and tell us what both are all about. And it does this in a well-written and comprehensive way. Congratulations, Ned; you've now got me seriously intrigued by both play and place; now if only I could get up there somehow! And, congratulations to the theater, the playwright, Shannon Taylor, and the founder/director, Robert Winslow. The people up there are fortunate to have it all in one place! Richard Zaner
Richard Zaner
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WOW!!!! Great interview Mr. Kanegis. Is Leonardo as awesome as he seems? We need more people like him to get people to think green. I know it got my 16 year-old's attention.
Marty Harriman
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Jerry Lewis is a comic genius, a flawed genius. This is just the kind of film that over the years all of his fans had hoped to see him get into. We all had hoped and prayed he would take the steps to become a cinematic master. It is sad that he will not allow this film to be seen. Is it because it is unfinished or didn't come out right? Or is it because he can't bear to have it played? Has anyone ever seen it?
Phillip Goldsmith
read Salem Kapsaski's article

This is the best eulogy I've read and a perfect epitaph: "Above his brilliance as a theatre and film director is Bergman's writing." Thanks.
Phillip Goldsmith
read Arthur Meiselman's article

Can Leonardo DiCaprio's Homemade Movie Save the World? Brilliant review! I know we can save this planet if we all stick together. Here's to the POWER OF THE PEOPLE!
Melanie Bennett
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Arthur Kanegis' notes on Leonardo DiCaprio's film has tapped into the major issue for people everywhere today. I was particularly struck by Naida Conners remark: "All of this is simply a byproduct of the way we constructed society. So we just have to redesign our society at every level so that it doesn't destroy the planet." That is the positive, evolutionary vision we all need to hear, including the leaders-that-be, loud and clear.
Ned Bobkoff
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Thank you for this clean and compact capsule of the life of Beverly Sills. She brought love and humanity to a sometimes stilted art form. All you have to do is add her music to this article and you have an important profile of this champion and giant in American opera.
Alvin Roettner
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As usual, Renate Stendhal's review is articulate and engaging. However, I have to disgree with her. I found this performance flat and slow. And I didn't see the all the cross-gender innuendoes that Miss Stendhal so artfully unveiled.
T.S.
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Hey - we need to get a campaign going to get this movie released. Maybe a petition and lots of emails. Gotta do it. Let's do a website or a myspace or youtube or something. Salem K. loves Jerry Lewis and so do I. It's gotta be a great movie!
Twobits
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Thank you for reminding us that the earth can't speak for itself. We need to wake up from our coma and realize that we, as humans, make mistakes. Hopefully people will recognize how important this movie can be. It is the 11th hour, and I can't wait to see this movie! Thanks for the great update on its progress!
Harper Jones
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GREED OVER GOOD. Not having seen the film, I can only comment on the points in this article. I think that most people are beginning to believe that the Earth, as we know it, is in great jeopardy if we don't do something about it. While it is an international problem, the United States as it's largest consumer of resources along with the rest of the western world needs to take the main responsibility. This takes leadership. Unfortunately that leadership is not at the helm of the U.S. 'Ship of State' and the general public will need to participate in a current-day 'Caine Mutiny' to get us back on course. Of equal importance is the mind set of the lead management, who need to take a long term look at what they are doing and not stop their thinking at the bottom line of this quarter's profit margin. In short some thought must be given to the long term GOOD they should be doing and not just the short term GREED factor. It is no wonder though, when our current president once referred to the U.S. Constitution as 'ju. I only hope "The 11th Hour" and articles like that written by Arthur Kanegis will cause people to stop and think about what they can do to make an impact.
Rowland Perkins
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I appreciated the hopeful message of this review even though humans have made a mess of things, humans can correct the problem. Let's pray that it's not too late. This is a review that didn't tell us the how the story ends, because the ending is up to us. But the summation of the issue was compelling.
Cecil Ash
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Good article, Arthur. I hope the movie captures the hearts and imagination of younger people who will be in charge of the chaotic world.
Lois Drake
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I am travelling in Sweden, and Swedes are very conscious folks when it comes to the planet! A well-known hotel chain has been showing Al Gore's documentary FOR FREE on their in-room channel!
Lucy Khoury

Understanding the message of The 11th Hour is heaving learned how to enjoy and survive just by letting go the bad habit to take seeming advantage from impairing of parity / duality / plurality / diversity. Those outdated habits are nothing but a crime against humanity and the commonweal.
Understanding this is to comprehend / grasp and acknowledge the balancing / self-healing given interconnectedness of existence beyond time and space.
Once having experienced, transcended and acknowledged this interconnectedness the indivi-dual switches into a repair mode and transforms into the true human being.

Just wish that Crafoord Prize winner Dr. Howard T. Odum had lived to see this movie! His vastly updated and expanded "Environment, Power, and Society for the 21st Century" has just been (posthumously) released by Columbia University Press. Odum's "emergy synthesis" methodology can provide the essential tools for a successful "total redesign" of humanity's relationship with Mother Earth. Hope the movie-makers had a chance to interview Odum's widow (and frequent co-author), Elizabeth Odum, or his "heir" at the Center for Environmental Policy (UFL), Dr. Mark Brown!
Bill Perk
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Go Girl! Your columns make my day at least once a month,. And aren't you a little young to be a 'gramma'? You musta been a teenage bride.
Sandy S.
read Claudine Jones' article

Arthur, you were able to provide a strong argument for the role of apathy as a fuel that has perpetuated the demise of what your article magnificently termed our "home planet." Your addition of persuasive facts, and the validation from Subject Matter Experts (SME's) lent much credence to the dire situation, which we have created. More so, I applaud you for your article's provision of tactics of hope to help us to restore what God has so mercifully entrusted to us. Bravo!
Marcia Uddoh
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I couldn't help but notice that the August issue of Scene4 contains three eloquent eulogies to artists from varying discliplines who could have not been more different, except for the consistent excellence of their work. I refer to Arthur Meiselman's article on Ingmar Bergman, Karren Alenier's on Beverly Sills, and Kathi Wolfe's on Doug Marlette. I was glad for those articles, because they paid just tribute to three great artists, and because they reminded us just how much great art improves and enriches our lives.

Miles Moore

How refreshing! A theater that values its community, and a community that values its theater! This review showcases an organization with a special mission. Bravo!
Shoshana Wolfe
read Ned Bobkoff's article

Kudos to Arthur (Kanegis) and Les (Marcott) for their respective articles. Les speaks of a collective nervous breakdown or moral crisis while DiCaprio's 11th hour speaks of an impending environmental crisis. One hopes, as Les does, that the world will still be standing.
Mike Jones

Renate Stendhal's article on "Der Rosenkavalier" was intensely interesting as to the opera's emotional and sexual nuances. Her suggestion of casting a physically attractive singer as Ochs, as a way of shaking up the opera's dynamics, was particularly intriguing, and caused me to think the following: has any opera company ever cast a male countertenor, instead of a female mezzo, in the role of Octavian? I don't even know if this is possible musically (being ignorant of how, or even if, the vocal ranges of mezzos and countertenors overlap), but it's an intriguing concept.
Miles Moore
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