“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” wrote L.P. Hartley in his 1953 novel “The Go-Between.” If you’re looking for proof of Hartley’s claim, just tune in, as I recently did, to the early episodes of “The Donna Reed Show,” where you can time travel all the way back to 1958….
Positive and Uplifting, Likable and Fun: Television’s Golden Age of Family Sitcoms
Film Review: ‘The Great Awakening’
NR | 1h 56min | Documentary, Technology, Medicine, Social Science | 03 June 2023 (USA) The third and perhaps not the last in the “Plandemic” series, “The Great Awakening” from director Mikki Willis covers a great deal of ground found in the previous two films. However, it also includes reams of backstory, suggesting the seeds of the 2020 COVID-19 scare were…
NTD’s International Figure Painting Competition Is Back in 2023
The New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television will hold the 2023 International Figure Painting Competition in June in New York, the 6th of its kind since the Competition began in 2008. The competition’s mission is to promote the pure beauty, kindness, and truth of traditional oil painting. Realism artists worldwide are invited to submit figure paintings…
The D-Day Tugboat That ‘Saved Our Bacon’ and Bloodied the Enemy
As the orange rays from Lake Ontario’s setting sun filter through the glass windows of the tugboat’s elevated steel pilothouse, one can almost see her crew. Their faces, slightly blurred by time, are still fixed in anxious rigidity. As they pass around the binoculars, each man leans forward slightly, in a vain attempt to magnify…
Lower-Class Humor in the Middle Ages: The Miller’s Tale
The Miller’s tale is probably the most entertaining story in the “Canterbury Tales,” a collection of 24 tales featuring 29 characters from all walks of life who are on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, England. As part of a storytelling contest, the pilgrims tell each other stories, and this framework allows Geoffrey Chaucer, the preeminent writer…
Theater Review: ‘West Side Story’: A Stunning Revival
The new revival of “West Side Story” is so much more exciting, more powerful and engaging than the previous Lyric Opera of Chicago’s bland production of 2019. This time, Lyric has restaged the musical into a mesmerizing presentation that fully lives up to expectations. Although the show opened on Broadway in 1957, it not only…
Fish & Men | Documentary
Today, 91% of the seafood in America is imported as the U.S. is flooded with six billion tons of foreign seafood. Most consumers eat blissfully unaware of where their seafood comes from or even think to ask. Yet, the demand-driven seafood economy is having dire consequences FISH & MEN exposes the high cost of cheap…
Miss NTD Global Chinese Beauty Pageant Prize Package Includes $10,000
June 5, 2023
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When actress Jenn Gotzon was recently interviewed on The Epoch Times’ sister media NTD Television about her role as a member of the honorary advisory board for the upcoming New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Global Chinese Beauty Pageant, she summed up the most valued trait for contestants in one word: benevolence. “I think benevolence is the strongest…
Hedy Lamarr: Hollywood Star and Inventor
After a day’s filming for a movie, Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000) would often slip unnoticed from her set trailer to get in a swim in her agent’s pool. There, she might be seen pausing after a lap contemplating her latest idea. Lamarr didn’t like the fame and attention she received from being a star actress during…
The Lure of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain in Renaissance Paintings
Around the year 1500, the northern Italian artist Andrea Mantegna painted a scene of the “Adoration of the Magi.” This was a deeply familiar theme to every Christian in Renaissance Europe. Upon the birth of Christ, three wise men from the East came guided by a star to worship him, bringing the precious gifts of…
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