Category: Success

Anniversaries In 2025

November 4, 2025 by • Crime, Entertainment, Financial, History, Law, News, Politics, Religion, Society, Sports, Success • 0 Comments

  • THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER
  • Los Angeles in the news a lot in 2025.

 

  • THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF A NOT-SO-WHITE WHITE HOUSE
  • Following a 2nd wave of politically-correct violence (the 1st was in early spring of 2023), a former president makes a preposterous statement about how he ran his White House.

 

Note To Self

October 25, 2025 by • Religion, Self-Improvement, Success • 0 Comments

People who sin against wisdom, or who fail to find wisdom, are harming their own souls.  –from a translation of Proverbs 8:36

The Question Asked in 1966

August 30, 2025 by • Books, Entertainment, Financial, History, News, Politics, Religion, Self-Improvement, Society, Sports, Success, Television • 0 Comments

“Is God dead?” –a question asked by an influential news magazine in 1966

Bloody peculiar coincidences of the late 1960’s/early 1970’s involving:

  • NASA at its best
  • The greatest military in history getting humbled
  • Trouble for American presidents
  • New York City
  • Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood, Hollywood, & Hollywood
  • Disney
  • The Superbowl
  • Israel and the Arab world
  • Income taxes
  • The demonic
  • College basketball
  • & more.

 

Are all of these different subjects involved in just coincidences or evidence of God’s power & control over history?

Scorsese Begins His Film-Directing Career

March 15, 2025 by • Entertainment, Financial, Politics, Success • 0 Comments

Before Martin Scorsese was in an interesting and inconspicuous box-office derby with director John McTiernan during the late summer/early fall of 1988, he began his career as a film director during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.  His first theatrical film was released in 1967.   His second theatrical film was released in 1972.

PAPER, ROCK, & SCISSORS….SPIELBERG, SCORSESE, & ED WOOD

Spielberg EASILY trumps Scorsese as the greatest filmmaker ever with the most relevant movie industry numbers.  Movie numbers like:

  • Total # of tickets sold
  • Total # of tickets sold after opening weekend
  • Box-office grosses
  • Box-office profits
  • Total # of DGA wins (before 2025)
  • Total # of DGA nominations (before 2025)
  • Total # of films listed in the AFI’s top 100 films (1998)
  • Total # of films listed in the AFI’s top 100 films (2007)

But many on the left want you to believe that Martin Scorsese is the greatest filmmaker ever, which makes him better than Ed Wood, who is widely-regarded as the worst filmmaker ever. 

Ed Wood, however, trumps Steven Spielberg because Ed Wood never destroyed many of the greatest films ever, something Spielberg has done since July of 2000.  Ed Wood never destroyed Jaws, E.T., and Duel the way Spielberg has over the last 25 years.

The Late 1960’s/Early 1970’s

March 3, 2025 by • Books, Crime, Entertainment, Financial, History, Law, News, News & Media, Politics, Religion, Self-Improvement, Society, Sports, Success, Television • 0 Comments

  • Americans walking on the moon.
  • America losing a war.
  • America’s only president who would be forced to resign winning presidential elections.
  • Historical events that would play a major role in Americans turning on their presidents who had won their last elections in landslides.
  • Construction of the World Trade Center twin towers in New York City.
  • New York City plagued with various strikes by public employees.
  • New freedoms for Hollywood thanks to the MPAA’s new classification system.
  • Martin Scorsese begins his film career as a director.
  • Early development for Hollywood’s disastrous disaster movies (from Airport to The Towering Inferno).
  • The American movie industry struggling for economic survival.
  • The movie industry’s future king working in television.
  • Construction of the Magic Kingdom at Disney World, the world’s most visited theme park.
  • The first seven years of the Superbowl, an annual sporting event that has since dominated the record books for the “All-Time Most Watched TV Programs”.
  • Historic Middle East conflicts of the 20th Century between Israel and the Arab world.
  • Nixon’s vice-president and legal problems with his income taxes.
  • The birth of a new social movement.
  • William Peter Blatty heading towards winning an Oscar.
  • Pete Maravich lighting up college basketball’s record books.
  • Coach John Wooden leading UCLA to seven consecutive NCAA tournament championships.
  • The first printing of two published books from Christian author Og Mandino containing The Ten Great Scrolls.
  • And finally, Mario Puzo creating a cultural phenomena with “The Godfather”.

Living In America

January 20, 2025 by • Education, Entertainment, Financial, History, Politics, Society, Success, Television, Uncategorized • 0 Comments

  • Fighting Apollo Creed
  • Fighting apathy towards the $36 trillion national debt.

 

“This is bizarre!”