Breathtaking, amusing, subtle: Director Wes Anderson scores again. Bill Murray is brilliant as the sardonic editor of the fictional French Dispatch, whose level of humor is established in the opening shot, when the magazine is set in the fictional town of Ennui-sur-Blasé. If you’re interested, you can find Internet stories about how several of the segments are lightly fictionalized accounts of actual New Yorker stories, while the others are simply deft parodies of the New Yorker style. Not laugh-out-loud funny, but witty, clever, and a loving salute to eccentric magazine journalism.
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Paul Schindler on TV
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Starting with an appearance on a WBZ public access program in 1972, I've been on local and national TV numerous times, mostly as a game show contestant (I appeared on the game shows Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Scrabble , Win Ben Stein's Money and Merv Griffin's Crosswords) and as an author. I was also on the Computer Chronicles for years. Pictures of my game show appearances Here are my journal entries for three of my game show appearances: Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Merv Griffin's Crosswords
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- Stephen Michael Schindler, RIP March 8, 1954-May 21, 2020
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- My all-time favorite movie:Groundhog Day. I have created a fan site that is universally acknowledged to be the best on the Internet dedicated to this work of art.
All the rest of my favorite movies (Deadline USA, The Paper, CitizenKane) are Journalism movies.
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- Rest In Peace
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Paul's Prairie Home Companion Script
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Paul on Merv Griffin's Crosswords
Paul on Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune
Larry King: Letters From Europe
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Sam Patch, The Greatest Story Ever Told So Far
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Fun with electronic editing. At WTBS, these were called hacks. Back in the 70s they were done with spliced magnetic tape. Now they can be done with electrons.
Frank Sinatra/Ella Fitzgerald Duet: I've Got A Crush on You
Alphabet Song from single sung syllables
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Parodies By Paul... and Robert
Yes, I am the Paul Schindler who predicted, in 1985, when the Macintosh was a year old, that it wouldn't be a success in business. I stand by that opinion. You can see Paul Schindler Pans Mac .
I did an audio summary of my career in radio and on podcasts: 35 Years Before The Mic .
I won Karl Kassel's voice for my answering machine because I won the listener limerick challenge on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me .I, Paul E. Schindler, Jr., am driving my stake in the ground right here. I invented the podcast in March 2000 when I worked at Byte.com for CMP Media.
Index of Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe appearances in PSACOT .
See how I looked in a Computer Systems News house ad in 1979
Paul Schindler Quote Page .
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