BY PETE HUMES
Posted: 3/11/10 3:33 PM
I live in a house of sneezes. Around every corner lurks a cough, a sniffle, a long meandering moan that starts way down deep in the belly and ends up muffled in a couch cushion.
Most of us are sick. Together we look miserable and sound even worse. This means that we soothe our ailment with the healing alpha rays of the television. We fight germs with the flickering glow of the flat screen. Then we blow our noses and wait to feel better.But recovery is slow going. It doesn't help that the rest of life goes on without us. Work and school are indifferent to our aches and pains. The mailman doesn't want to feel our foreheads to see if we're running a fever. He tells us that's against United States Post Office rules.
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An intriguing assortment of new, classic and experimental moving-image presentations is on the program of the 17th James River Film Festival, reeling in Richmond from March 19 to 25.
Guests include the critic/teacher/writer/experimental-film champion Scott MacDonald, a Bard College-based film professor who first came to the JRFF in 1995. Celia Maysles presents Wild Blue Yonder about her father, the late David Maysles, who died when she was young. Maysles and his brother Alfred (a past Read full story
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