In the old days, before political correctness, an American was seen in Europe as a brave cowboy; in turn an American could work through Europe with a short hand of nationality stereotypes. The Dutch were dull; the French-rude, the Germans-tidy and efficient, the Russian-emotional, the British-fun, the Belgians-corrupt closeted the bourgeois, the Spanish-proud, the Norwegians-ethereal, the Danes-energetic, the Finns-tough, the Poles-courageous, the Italians-passionate. And the Swedes- the Swedes were “dumb”, nice but dumb. So dumb, that their Royal Family came from a French peasant who happened to be a French Napoleonic Marshal. The Swedes had been good soldiers, under the Vasas, but that was three centuries ago. One of them did invent dynamite then felt so guilty he financed the Nobel Prizes. Sweden turned out beautiful and sexy women, Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Gunnel Lindblom, Ulla Jacobsson, Liv Ullmann but the word association with Swede was dumb. Then the Swedes discov...

Quentin Crisp(THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT), in the Age of Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Andre Gide, Sir John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Leonard Bernstein, Liberace, Rock Hudson, Clifton Webb, and  Edward Albee, was the most famous openly Gay English speaking Gay in the world. He believed that there was no inherent tension between straight women and Gay men, because Gay Men were the only males sympathetic to straight women’s female afflictions. He thought there was tremendous tension between straight men and Gay men because, “straight men do not like what Gay men do in sex, and don’t want it done to them .” Crisp’s analysis was an Ockham razor’s approach to Discrimination against Gays. Quentin Crisp On March 25, 2013, I received an email from a Parisian sophisticate; she wrote me after watching anti-gay marriage rioters battle French riot police on the Champs-Elysees. The rioters were fighting their way to the Presidential Palace, to personally attack French President Hollan...

During the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi, a Blue Dog Democrat( a Conservative), who lost his re-election in 2010, remarked that he was concerned about how Latinized American politics was becoming. He was prescient. The Democrats have become a Latin Party, with Hillary Clinton aspiring to be Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the current Peronista  President of Argentina, who married and succeeded a President, Nestor Kirchner. She was the second female President of Argentina, the first was Isabel Martínez de Perón, who became Argentina's President by marrying a  President, Juan Peron, and succeeding him. The Democratic Party of 2012 is rife with Peronism. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner That said, the  2012 Democratic Party gone beyond Peronism, transforming itself into something even more Latino than Peronism. The American Democratic Party in 2012 is an American v...

I went to see EYES WIDE SHUT in total awe of its Director, Stanley Kubrick, who had in his career Directed THE GREATEST Science Fiction/Cosmological film EVER- 2001, SPACE ODYSSEY, the BEST and MOST INSIGHTFUL film essay on American culture EVER- LOLITA, arguably the greatest war movie ever- PATHS OF GLORY, and one of the best film epics ever- SPARTACUS. Mr. Kubrick died SUDDENLY, before EYES WIDE SHUT was released. Everyone was so sad. Then I saw EYES WIDE SHUT, and understood exactly why Herr Director Kubrick had croaked so suddenly; he had willed himself to death before the release of the film, so that  he would not have to suffer the slings and shots against his declining genius. EYES WIDE SHUT is the WORST, laughably worst, porn film ever made, EVER. It starred that larger than life couple(at the time), Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The key scene in the film was Ms. Kidman peeing. I was spending over $60.00(including tickets,parking and snacks for m...

GERALD MAXEY Writer, Director, Producer holds a B.A. from the University of Southern California and a M.A. from San Francisco State University in Creative Writing. He has traveled extensively to over 27 countries, and worked for the US government as a futurist. He authored the novel, CODES, about the Coyotero Apaches in New Mexico based on his experiences as a VISTA volunteer. He has Written and Directed the film festival movie, VENICE BEACH SKETCHES, an episodic drama about the decline of the American male as a heroic figure. He helped co found the WHITMORE/LINDLEY THEATER COMPLEX in North Hollywood, California and has had the following plays produced in Los Angeles, HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES, ROCOCO, TEXTURE OF INNOCENCE, and MOMMIE DEAREST or how Richard Gere taught me everything I know about life.  His future film projects include FORLORN HOPE, which he co-authored, about three young Los Angeles School Teachers, CHARLIE’S ANGLES MEETS BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, a John ...

Afghanistan itself is another creation of Imperial Britain. It was created artificially by a line drawn on the map by an English Imperialist,  in this case, Mortimer Durand. There has always been a rump Afghanistan centered around Kabul; but the present configuration of Afghanistan is a fake,  created by Durand when he sat in a room, and drew a line on a map which created modern Afghanistan. In doing so he  divided the Pashtun tribe. Before the Durand Line, there was no border between Afghanistan and British ruled India(now Pakistan); so the Pashtuns could  move easily around. Once that line was drawn, the Pashtuns were split between two nations, through no fault, nor desire nor  reason of their own. That Readers is Colonialism, and we are getting killed to support that? in 2012? The Taliban is Pashtun. The reason that the Pakistanis won't come down on them is that Pakistan has many Pashtuns in its Army Establishment. The solution, rather than ...